Flicker & Polar Bird, by Andrea Keller (trio, strings & voices)

Flicker & Polar Bird

by Andrea Keller (trio, strings & voices)

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Double album featuring Andrea Keller with Miroslav Bukovsky, John Mackey, strings and voices.
Recorded in Canberra and Sydney (2022/2023)

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1.	Flicker #4 06:31	info	buy track
2.	Flicker #2 05:53	info	buy track
3.	Flicker #1 06:07	info	buy track
4.	Flicker #3 08:29	info	buy track
5.	Flicker #5 07:56	info	buy track
6.	Compassionately Yours... 06:49	info	buy track
7.	Cry Heart But Never Break 04:40	info	buy track
8.	Polar Bird 05:59	info	buy track
9.	Treasured Angels 04:27	info	buy track
10.	Pennies From Eve 04:28	info	buy track
11.	i am a little church 06:48	info	buy track

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Australian pianist and composer Andrea Keller releases her twenty-third album as leader in 2023.
Flicker & Polar Bird is a double album that mixes new Keller creations with re-imaginings of older works. The music celebrates the connections Andrea made as the ANU H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow in 2022, which enabled her to work with a host of wonderful musicians, deepening existing collaborations, and creating new ones.

Featuring Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), John Mackey (saxophone), Rachael Thoms (voice), Liam Budge (voice), Véronique Serret (violin), and string sections in Sydney and Canberra, the compositions on this double release date from 2010 to 2022 and include many previously unreleased tracks.

The Flicker series, which began with a commission from Solstice Trio (2017), captures flashes of memory. Flicker 2 – 5 and Polar Bird (2022) were composed specifically for the trio with Miroslav and John.
Treasured Angels and Cry Heart But Never Break were commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra (2018), while I am a little church appears in the song cycle Still Night (2016).
Both Compassionately Yours… (2019), and Pennies From Eve (2010) are being released for the first time here, having been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival and ANU Canberra respectively.

Recorded at the ANU School of Music Recording Studio Canberra, and Trackdown Studios Sydney in late 2022 / early 2023, Andrea Keller trio, strings & voices: Flicker & Polar Bird will be available in digital and limited-edition CDs from October 6, 2023.

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released October 6, 2023

Musicians

Trio
John Mackey – Tenor Saxophone
Miroslav Bukovsky – Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Andrea Keller – Piano

Strings (Sydney)
Véronique Serret – violin 1
Liisa Pallandi – violin 2
Andrew Jezek – viola 1
Charlotte Fetherston – viola 2
Rowena Macneish – cello
Elsen Price – double bass

Strings (Canberra)
Kirsten Williams – violin 1
Philippa Thompson – violin 2
Lucy Carrigy-Ryan – viola 1
Yona Su – viola 2
Alex Voorhoeve – cello
Kyle Ramsay-Daniel – double bass

Voices
Rachael Thoms
Liam Budge

All compositions & arrangements by Andrea Keller

Recording credits

Flicker #2 & Polar Bird
Recorded at ANU School of Music Recording Studio, Canberra, Australia on July 8, 2022
Recorded by Matthew Barnes

Cry Heart But Never Break, Treasured Angels & I am a little church
Recorded at ANU School of Music Recording Studio, Canberra, Australia on November 30, 2022
Recorded by Craig Greening

Flickers #4, #1, #3, #5, Compassionately Yours… & Pennies From Eve
Recorded at Trackdown Studios, Sydney, Australia on January 28, 2023
Recorded by Richie Belkner

Mixed & mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Recording, NYC
Designed by Luke Fraser/Ahr+

Permissions & Acknowledgements

Cry Heart But Never Break
Text taken from Cry, Heart, But Never Break by Glenn Ringtved, illus. by Charlotte Pardi, and translated by Robert Moulthrop. Used with permission from Enchanted Lion Books.

“i am a little church(no great cathedral)”. Copyright © 1958, 1986, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1985 by George James Firmage, from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

This album was made as part of the ANU H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship

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Andrea Keller Melbourne, Australia

Andrea Keller is an Australian pianist and composer, dedicated to the performance and creation of contemporary jazz and improvised music.
She has created and devised numerous albums and projects, and has been highly lauded, receiving three ARIA Awards, five Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Awards, two Art Music Awards, and fellowships from the MCA/Freedman Foundation and the Australia Council. ... more

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