Grgur Savic ‘‘The Form‘‘

by Grgur Savic

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1.	Alpha Canis 07:11	buy track
2.	Draco Vrsa 06:33	buy track
3.	Virgo Xioma 09:01	buy track
4.	Xindi Vesta 06:25	buy track
5.	Zeta Eridanus 05:47	buy track
6.	Alpha Canis (Take 2), bonus track 04:15	buy track
7.	Alpha Canis (Take 3), bonus track 06:22	buy track

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This recording took place in one-three hours long session on a winter day of November 2019 at Funkhaus studios in Berlin. This debut album features a set of new hand written compositions from Grgur, crossover between notated visual music charts, free improvisations and electronics. Though visual music points have been written out from Grgur's side the session made it's way and adhere to a commitment with pure improv making it exciting in trying to bridge the gap between composed and improvised.

As clear that recording of ‘‘improvised‘‘ music is not an improvisation: it’s prime function as real-time music-making is lost once it is caught on tape, it has been important for Savic's understanding of how these compositions might, or might not, be used as improvisational guidences as well as for his understanding of the close relationship between various composed experimental musics in relation to free improv.

GRGUR SAVICs - ‘‘THE FORM‘‘

Line up:
Grgur Savic - saxophone, electronics
Quentin Tolimieri - piano
Fyodor Stepanov - double bass
Vedran Ruzic - el.bass
Chris Hill - drums, objects

All compositions by Grgur Savic
Recorded by Barak Shem Tov, Funkhaus Studios, November 2019
Mixed by Damjan Blazun, Grgur Savic
Mastered by Zino Mikorey

Cover art by Sanja Star
Photo gallery by Drago Goranov

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“Jazz is one of the most important musical developments of the 20th century, and by the mid-1960s the leading jazz improvisers had developed such an extraordinary degree of instrumental prowess that their extempore music was as richly complex and creative as a music can be. However, when the free jazz stylings of Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane were transferred to new cultural circumstances, many of its codes quickly broke down or were rejected and a global language of improvisation began to develop. The free improvisation we hear today has got almost nothing to do with jazz of any kind, and in its 40-year history it too has greatly evolved. One of the characteristics of free improvisation is its hunger for new ways of making sounds and new ways of (dis)order them.”
(Marley, 2005:3)

“That’s my way of preparation – not to be prepared. And that takes a lot of preparation!” Lee Konitz

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released March 16, 2021

Big thanks to Quentin Tolimieri, Fyodor Stepanov, Vedran Ruzic, Chris Hill for all divine real-time music creation, Barak Shem-Tov for Recording, Damjan Blazun for Mixing, Zino Mikorey for Mastering, Drago Goranov for beautiful photos and to my beloved ones, cat Brexit and my beautiiful wife Sanja for all the support and grinder album cover art. Thank you all.

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Grgur Savic Berlin, Germany

Grgur Savic is a Croatian-German experimental composer, soundist and improviser. Predominantly experimental, intuitive and non-linear, he creates through numerous different mediums and technologies such as graphic scoring, feedback in electronics, live performance – working largely in different electro-acoustic environments. ... more

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