Phasma-Music - Night visions

NIGHT VISIONS

Genre : Contemporary Classical

Catalogue: Phasma-Music 009

UPC: 660989085636

mastering: Piotr Wieczorek

texts: © Theodore Karathodoros, 2019

graphic design: Michail Travlos

production management: Iwona Glinka

front cover: Digital Art by Michail Travlos

premiere: November 15, 2019.

recording: tracks 1-5 Michal Szostakowski

editing: tracks 1-5 Michal Szostakowski

recording place: Polish Radio Studio S2 in Warsaw, Poland

recorded in September, 2017

recording: tracks 6-14 Piotr Wieczorek

editing: tracks 6-14 Piotr Wieczorek

recording place: Polish Radio Studio S2 in Warsaw, Poland

recorded in September, 2018

recording: tracks 15-21 Anna Kasprzycka

editing: tracks 15-21 Marcin Kowalczyk

recording place: Music Academy in Gdansk, Poland

recorded in 6th September, 2018

Iwona Glinka flute, alto flute

Leszek Lorent vibraphone

Adam Eljasinski clarinet, bass clarinet

Marcin Piotr Lopacki piano

NeoQuartet string quartet

In Michail Travlos's second album dedicated solely to his own music, following on from the award-winning album PROGRESSIONS, he proves to be one of Greece's most interesting and convincing living modern composers. This album explores seven imaginative works. He has managed to create an exciting and often challenging personal voice that is always interesting and very appealing.

In NIGHT VISIONS the listener experiences works of diverse styles and aesthetic perspectives. Even though most of the work titles are derived from a non-musical origin, Travlos’s robust technique and fine-tuned elaboration of the music material ensure the preservation of the fragile balance between rationality and the sentimental nature, that governs the compositional procedure. Throughout the works, the common element in the composer’s view is the meticulous exploration of intervallic qualities in terms of texture and time. Through this microstructural point of departure, we see the composer’s intention to create soundscapes and inspired works, that are differentiated in terms of perception and form. (© Theodore Karathodoros)

NIGHT VISIONS

won the GLOBAL MUSIC AWARD - AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE - GOLD Medal Triple Winner in three categories: composer/composition, new release and album, NOVEMBER - 2019, was chosen Best of Best Top Albums Fall 2019 by Global Music Awards, SEPTEMBER-2019, won the CLOUZINE International Music Awards (Best Contemporary Music album), January - 2020, was chosen Best of Best Top Albums 2019 by Global Music Awards, JANUARY - 2020

and was nominated for the 18th Annual Independent Music awards (Contemporary classical), APRIL - 2020.