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Cello​-​intern Solos

by Mark Wastell

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The Red Fish 03:14
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One Form 01:26
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Lux Eterna 04:18
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Porthmeor 04:19
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No. 9 06:11
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Small Areas 04:18
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Wicca Cove 02:42
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The Lamp 03:22
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about

The Cello-intern residency at the Hundred Years Gallery began in February 2022 and has taken place on the first Saturday of each month since and is still ongoing. For one hour on each of those afternoons I'm given the opportunity to play alone regardless of whatever else is going on at the gallery. In these recordings you'll occasionally hear footsteps, quiet chatter and other activity as people move around the space. There is no pressure to 'perform'. This is not a gig. But it's also not a rehearsal. Play. Develop a new method. Sounds. Movement. Make mistakes. Listen. Learn. Leave.

My sincere thanks go to Graham MacKeachan and Montse Gallego for their commitment and support. The work they undertake at the gallery is integral to community based art and music and is of vital importance.

credits

released September 22, 2022

For Patrick Heron

Mark Wastell : violoncello

Recorded at the Hundred Years Gallery, London, between February and May 2022

Recorded by Graham MacKeachan
Edited by Mark Wastell
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux at Studio 3, London

Photograph by Matt Atkins

Cover design by Matt Brandi
Produced by Mark Wastell

℗ Confront Recordings 2022

"Beautiful cello in the resonant space of the Hundred Years Gallery. Like an eagle soaring and swooping back down again. There's a real drive and motion in the sound that is utterly compelling." (Corey Mwamba, Freeness, BBC Radio 3)

"Such is the intensity of his praxis. The sound of a fierce commitment put into practice." (Daniel Spicer, The Wire)

"Wastell's consummate command of the cello is in evidence as he plies threads against each other, spidering out in whorls of overlapped kernels which he weaves together with a compact sense of structure. But technique never overwhelms that structural sensibility. Each piece stands as a cogently conceived statement while fitting seamlessly into the overall flow of the release." (Michael Rosenstein, Point of Departure)

"The music swirls around glissandi and multiphonic harmonics and ghost sounds evoking a physical, organic whale song, a sustained and contorted yelp, a continuous movement of oscillating sound waves. A precise, very fine, powerful and volatile sound work. Sublime bass tones are extracted from ethereal, reverberated, unstable high notes. A music of energy. A very nice achievement!." (Jean-Michal Van Schouwburg, ORNYX)

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