Facing Infinity, by Nikolas Skordas & Alexandros Aivaliotis ON Duet

Facing Infinity

by Nikolas Skordas & Alexandros Aivaliotis ON Duet

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1.	Birds interactions 02:59	info	buy track
2.	Monologue of duality 05:22	info	buy track
3.	Beyond the skies 07:07	info	buy track
4.	Tsu-Re expansion 09:23	info	buy track
5.	Facing infinity 05:35	info	buy track
6.	Cosmic sources 08:02	info	buy track
7.	The joy of lonelines 04:10	info	buy track
8.	Ja(zz)pan bonding 04:37	info	buy track
9.	On 09:29	info	buy track
10.	Moon sonoryti 09:42	info	buy track
11.	Listen cliff echoes 03:45	info	buy track
12.	Farewall 05:20	info	buy track

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This second SLAM CD by Nikolas Skordas (see SLAMCD 582 Ships and Shepherds with Alex Maguire) features him with fellow original improviser Alexandros Aivaliotis in the duo ON, creating an intriguing and beautiful combination of textures and voices from a mixture of international cultures.

Nikolas and Alexandros write:

The musical interaction between the mellow, inner, simple sound of the Japanese vertical flute, the shakuhachi, and the sharp, but also sweet sound of the soprano saxophone, the most wildcat of the sax family, creates an untold journey to unconventional places and times of the human experience.

Regarding the name of the duet, we underline the multidimensional meaning of the word "on", (Greek: sentient being), the human entity, the concept of "is-be", inside us. The same phonetic sequence "on", in Japanese stands for "sound", as the original form of the frequency creation through air. The above ideogram consists of two others, meaning "stand up" and "sun", as "the rising of the light".

Those two denotations present the concept of sound as something vivid, fresh and authentic, beyond the boundaries of common knowledge and views about music.

East and west, together present a new musical proposal through a rare duet!

On the one hand, we have the soprano sax, an instrument capable to produce different voices, hard to play, weird and inexplicably indomitable but beautiful, a tool that requires full commitment and patience.

On the other hand, the old meditation tool of ancient Japan, a root end bamboo made flute with only five holes, one of the hardest traditional flutes to master, vibrates the atmosphere in a unique way, imitating even the human voice and producing sounds from the depth of the human existence. Listen!

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released February 6, 2018

FACING INFINITY SLAMCD 594 Barcode 5028386710127
ON Duet
Nikolas Skordas soprano sax, tarogato, traditional flutes.
Alexandros Aivaliotis shakuhachi, hocchicu.
With guest Sophia Koroxenou, voice track 12
.RECORDING DETAILS:
Record Mixed and Mastering by Konstantinos Fragkopoulos at Shellac Recording Studios, Thessaloniki
6 February 2018

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Nikolas Skordas Thessaloniki, Greece

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Prayerful

Apr 2023
INVISIBLE WAR

Jul 2020
LETHE

Jul 2019
Facing Infinity

Feb 2018
Ships and shepherds

Jun 2017

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