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Natura Morta

by Sven Wunder

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Ukog-Nos Takeuchi
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Ukog-Nos Takeuchi Prussian Blue just slaps so hard 🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🎴🇯🇵🕪📻🔊🇯🇵🎴🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿 Favorite track: Prussian Blue.
Julien Gracq
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Julien Gracq The only thing that makes this not passable as authentic classic library music is how damn good every single song is. GOLD. Favorite track: Natura Morta.
plasticseahorse
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plasticseahorse Some funk tracks are still growing on me but most slow melancholic songs on Natura Morta are so breathtakingly arranged and played out. Reminds me of music scores of French new wave films. Favorite track: Natura Morta (Reprise).
Matt Schwerin
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Matt Schwerin Sven is great and bandcamp is great for introducing him to me. Seriously people, stop using Spotify.
DAMIEN MCSHERRY
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DAMIEN MCSHERRY I was driving to the dentist today listening to bits of this and the other two albums on spotify, amazing stuff, made me think of fantastic planet music too.
Justin
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Justin Each Sven Wunder album is a masterpiece to my ears. Rich compositions, beautiful rhythms and incredible talents on each instrument. Each song takes you on a journey. This album paints beautiful pictures in my mind with every track. Thank you for the music. Favorite track: Impasto.
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    1. En Plein Air / 2. Impasto / 3. Prussian Blue / 4. Natura Morta / 5. Panorama / 6. Alla Prima / 7. Umber / 8. Barocco, Ma Non Troppo / 9. Memento Mori / 10. Pentimento / 11. Natura Morta (reprise)

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En Plein Air 02:42
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Impasto 03:11
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Natura Morta 03:05
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Panorama 03:39
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Alla Prima 03:07
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Umber 02:57
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Pentimento 02:10
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En Plein Air 02:42

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On Natura Morta, Sven Wunder is exploring art as a bridge between nature and the human ability to judge and observe in eleven musical compositions with brightly colored textures and an emphasis on vibrant melodies.

Throughout human history, we have depicted the world we live in through art. By reworking what we see in the world, the simplest things have helped us understand the beauty of nature and to evaluate the material world that we have created around us, as a window to a constantly changing reality, through our own perception. It is that absolute reality that appears in the seam of human and nature and that can be revealed through art.

Still life painting, also referred to as natura morta (”dead nature”) in Italian, stretches back to ancient times. Some of the earliest works, found in Pompeii, depict commonplace objects such as fresh autumn fruits alongside man-made objects such as a small amphora and a small terracotta heap with dried fruits. These two thousand year old paintings give a snapshot of Roman life, and also creates a link to time and space. A slice of life has been created by binding the earth’s pigments with extracts of oil, made from nuts and seeds, painted with brushes, made from a variety of fibers, such as trees and hair from animals. While life wanes with each brush stroke, by shifting reality into past, art exists to make us come alive, being a living image of a dead thing, a surface and a symbol with symbolic powers of its own. Still life works celebrate material and ephemeral pleasures by returning to nature as the ultimate source for our standards in art as well as in life itself.

Natura Morta collects pieces from a continuous variety of melodies — supported by a decisive rhythm section — creating a musical kaleidoscope of ever-changing colors. Sven Wunder brings life into this rich assortment of musical implications by fusing and combining melodic instruments with each other in a setting that spans from a classical to a modern idiom. The author evokes this panoramic portrait by articulating an instrumental dialog between a chamber orchestra and a jazz ensemble. The result is a musical celebration of material pleasures that also serves as a reminder of the brevity of human life. This album was produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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released June 11, 2021

The staff used on this LP is the following:
9 violins, 4 violas, 3 cellos, 1 flute, 1 piano, 1 electric piano, 1 cembalo, 1 twelve-string guitar, 1 electric guitar, 1 trumpet, 1 flugelhorn, 1 tenor horn, 1 marimba, 1 electric bass, drums and percussions.

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Sven Wunder Sweden

Artist and composer based in Stockholm.

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