Maria Faust - Machina (2018)

Boldness is the hallmark of Maria Faust, her music, and her projects with ensembles that explore unusual instrumentations and techniques. She is constantly expanding her sound spectrum, and her new project, MACHINA, consists of an unprecedented mix of traditional musical forms paired with improvisation, jazz, and soundscapes. In a musical language of her own invention, she delivers her original compositional ideas, a chamber music universe without drums, but with horns, two basses, cello, and piano, all in a fascinating interaction with the engi- nes of fishing boats sputtering their way through the fog, the creaks of old rusty hulls, the hum of the breeze and the call of the birds out at sea.

MACHINA, like Maria Faust’s earlier releases, starts with what she her- self describes as “memory analysis.” As a tool, she gets inspiration from both personal and collective memories and the subconscious. Maria Faust says that she sees “the water as a symbol of a natural and unpre- dictable force of oppressed feelings like anger and sorrow” and she asks “why should we suppress these emotions, while we emphasize, for example, happiness?”



Track List:
1. Salacia (04:21)
2. Undine (03:53)
3. Sirene (04:17)
4. Alien Hand (07:51)
5. O, My Dearest Knife - Part I (02:49)
6. O, My Dearest Knife - Part II (04:32)
7. Medusa (05:54)
8. Aurora (06:18)

Alto Saxophone – Maria Faust
Tenor Saxophone – Ned Ferm
Cello – Ida Nørholm
Piano – Jacob Anderskov
Double Bass – Adam Pultz Melbye, Nils Bo Davidsen

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