"Recorded over three separate afternoons.
Paper is a latest piece in my series for “prepared” violin. This one uses paper weaved across the strings, the resulting sound is that of a woodwind instrument (I hope). It is then improvised.
Orlando GibbonsFantasia IV- I first played these Fantasias in 2011 for F-IRE Klang Codex concert series run by Lucy Railton and Fred Thomas. Around the same time I began performing at Oto in Lucy’s Kammer Klang and in some way I will always associate the Gibbons Fantasias for Treble Viols with Lucy and the early days at Cafe Oto.
Slow Changeis a process piece, a journey of the bow going across the string from the bridge to the end of the fingerboard, the sound is slowly changing, other strings get involved as the bow gets higher on the fingerboard. "
- Aisha Orazbayeva
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Aisha Orazbayeva - violin, preparations, recording, mixing
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Artwork design by Oliver Barrett
1. Paper (7:44)
2. Orlando Gibbons Fantasia IV for 2 treble viols (3:22)
3. Slow Change (14:02)
Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva is renowned for her fearless interpretations of contemporary music and radical approach to early repertoire. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums with music ranging from her own compositions to Telemann and Sciarrino, the New Yorker describing her "Music for VIolin Alone" album as "unanimity of head, heart and hands". She has performed internationally in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, HAU2 Berlin, Corum Montpellier for Radio France and Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. In 2022 together with harpsichordist Prach Boondiskulchok Aisha performed all of Biber's Mystery Sonatas at the Spitalfields Festival in London.
As a composer she has written music for dance, theatre and film, including OUR SOLO a collaboration with ECCE dance company (touring in 2023 - 2024), Heartbreaking Final written with Tim Etchells and commissioned by Wiener Festwochen 2021, the piece was later performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Aisha is a member of ICTUS ensemble in Brussels.
