NATIONAL PARKS, by Postmarks

NATIONAL PARKS

by Postmarks

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1.	Bandelier National 01:24	buy track
2.	Big Thicket 01:05	buy track
3.	Bryce Canyon at Dawn 04:38	buy track
4.	Hubbel Trading Post at Dusk 05:13	buy track
5.	Fossil Butte 01:10	buy track
6.	Gila Cliff Dwelings 04:40	buy track
7.	Hubbel Trading Post at Dawn 11:06	buy track
8.	Capitol Reef At Dusk 06:50	buy track
9.	Bryce Canyon at Dusk 04:44	buy track
10.	Capitol Reef at Dawn 09:56	buy track

about

Postmarks is a duo with saxophonist Boris Hauf and pianist D Bayne. Their first album Western Ave was recorded in Chicago (2005) and released as a limited- edition CD on Luminescence Records. The 100 copies were packaged in unique covers, each a handcrafted collage from 1920s Chicago postcards by T. Kellers of STUDIO TWELVE 3. For National Parks, Hauf and Bayne went to Vienna, Austria to record with guitar-experimentalist Martin Siewert. Musical outlines for the pieces were inspired by U.S. national parks and their representation in iconic posters from the 1930s and 1940s.

"...Adventurous travellers with sonic space experience will likely want to camp out for a time within these National Parks."
- Ken Waxman, Jassworld

"Without veering too close to programme music, the pieces clearly display the influence of the material that inspired them. "
- John Eyles

"National Parks often veers close to tuneful politeness but retains an atonal edge throughout that undermines everything and provides a nervous and intriguing quality to the music."
— The Wire

"In a way you could qualify the music as free jazz impressionism, because of its concept and its accessibility and obvious beauty on the surface level, yet at the same time, the music remains open-ended, like nothing is definitive, with more abstract threads of sounds left unraveled, as if there is a question mark behind it all, and with some darker undercurrents, something fearful and unexplained, mayby unexplainable, hidden in the invisible parts of the scenes yet present, or with traces of the past somehow still lingering, only to be caught with sound, with repetitive arpeggios, slightly bending notes on the sax and screeching guitar sounds."
— Stef, freejazzblog

"the extemporization of this classic sax/piano line-up is impeccable."
-freistil

"the album is full of lyrical passages that enhance a sound material organized with rigor and intelligence."
— M. Busti, Blow Up

credits

released October 30, 2013

Boris Hauf (baritone & tenor sax) & D Bayne (piano)
special guest: Martin Siewert (guitar, electronics)

all compositions: Boris Hauf (AKM) and D Bayne (BMI)
recorded, mixed and mastered Martin Siewert, Vienna 2012

released on Monotype Records

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Boris Hauf Berlin, Germany

Multi-intrumentalist, composer, producer, performer, curator and lecturer.

BH composes for large and small ensembles, performance artists, film, radio, soloists, video and installation art.

50+ releases. tours worldwide

Current bands: Couscous, Clark, Owl & Mack, Next Delusion, The Peeled Eye, Naked Lunch,

owns and runs the independent record label shameless and lives in Berlin, Germany. ... more

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