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02. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - Two Suns That Morning
03. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - Return & Crossing
04. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - The Princess of Yesteryears
05. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - The Sun Darkened
06. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - Mount Tamalpais
07. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - A Song On Earth
08. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - Like A Country Bell
09. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - I'm A Bird
10. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - Love Is A Forest
11. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - Sometimes Big Trees
12. Jutta Glaser & Claus Boesser-Ferrari - There's No Road - Keep Going
ARTIST
TITLE
Return & Crossing
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EJR 002CD EJR 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/17/2023

They have been working together again and again for more than 20 years and have constantly explored the boundaries of their instructions and not infrequently even expanded them: singer Jutta Glaser and guitarist Claus Boesser-Ferrari. Their current project Return & Crossing is a tribute to the Lebanese-American painter, film artist and poet Etel Adnan. Jutta Glaser and Claus Boesser-Ferrari have opened their music wide to Adnan's poems. In doing so, they have not simply deconstructed their compositions, but, on the contrary, restructured them in a way that floats in the flow of the language, that is, in a peculiarly fluid way. They have deliberately worked in a more sound-painting manner in order to take up the aspect of multiple talents or Etel Adnan's interdisciplinary approach and mirror it in a corresponding art form. Just as Adnan's poetry is always read in a new and different way, so is this music, which is so changeable in itself. Jutta Glaser's singing is a sometimes tender and fragile, sometimes highly expressive, but always respectfully bow to Adnan's texts. Glaser transfers them as virtuously as sensitively into congenial improvisations and alienations, without overstretching the natural richness of the texts' relationships. Claus Boesser-Ferrari, supported by cleverly used electronics, functions here not as an accompanist, but as a second voice in a dialogue of different artistic means and formal languages. The guitarist moves in his usual stylistically confident manner between lyrical sound surfaces, percussive pointing and expressive outbursts. Return & Crossing is a multi-layered dramaturgical production, which not only elaborates the high musicality of Adnan's language, organized in diffuse-open spaces, with love and meticulousness, but also makes it sound as multi-layered as it is rousing.