Andvake Stefano Boggiani

• 1 Sun Eats Mouth 03:56
• 2 Hourglass 05:45
• 3 Hi Reaction 04:33
• 4 Moderato 04:30
• 5 Dead Ends 03:32
• 6 Without a Net 06:30
• 7 Ritual 06:51
• Total Runtime 35:37

Info for Andvake

Andvake is an old Norwegian word of Norse origin with multiple meanings. It can be translated as insomnia, but it also indicates a state of wake, characterized by extreme attention and vigilance.

When I started thinking about this project, I was willing to shape some music inspired by the notion of contrast: texture and gesture, sparse and dense, order and chaos. I wanted to write compositions that served this purpose, while allowing freedom of interpretation to the musicians. I am deeply grateful to Øyvind, Oskar, Erlend and Markus for helping me shape the sounds in my head. Their active involvement and musicianship are a fundamental part of this work. (Stefano Boggiani)

Stefano Boggiani, guitar
Øyvind Mathisen, trumpet
Oskar Lindberget, saxophones
Erlend Olderskog Albertsen, bass, percussion (track 7)
Markus Kristiansen, drums, percussion (track 7)

Stefano Boggiani
is a guitarist and composer. Here he presents some of the music he wrote and performed with different bands throughout the Master studies at NMH. He saw the Masters as an opportunity to improve his compositional ability, interested in finding a personal way to inform improvisation through composition. In the compositions contrast arises from opposing determined and undetermined elements, texture and gesture, rarefied and dense, order and chaos.

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