Now We Are Branches And Leaves documents a unique, remote collaboration between Danish, Copenhagen-based collage and sound artist-keyboard player øjeRum (aka Paw Grabowski) and Australian, Melbourne-based trumpeter Peter Knight (co-leader of the Australian Hand to Earth quintet and former artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra). The exact one-hour piece is a meditative study of repetitive, melodic piano motifs, embraced by subtle electronics and synth sounds, and distant, ethereal trumpet.
The geographical distance between these musicians becomes the essence of this minimalist yet highly immersive piece. It is a chance meeting between distant sonic elements that, very much like in øjeRum’s collages, make up a new whole that surpasses and extends the meanings and emotions of the individual components.
Despite the great distance and the austere spirit of Now We Are Branches And Leaves, its sound is warm, rich, and haunting, and radiates a sensibility of deep listening, as the frequencies are filtered by the waves and distance between. The piano, synth, and trumpet sound as if they reach out and seem to take hold, somewhere in between, over a small peaceful island and suggest a healing ritual.
Eyal Hareuveni
Paw Grabowski (piano, synthesizer), Peter Knight (trumpet)
