Sueños Paralelos, by Laura Katharina Schuler

Sueños Paralelos

by Laura Katharina Schuler

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1.	When Everything Falls Into Place 06:34	buy track
2.	Prospect Park 04:33	buy track
3.	Easy 09:42	buy track
4.	Feed Your Power 08:00	buy track
5.	One For The Dreamer 06:21	buy track
6.	Baby It's Freejazz 10:36	buy track

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When asked about the new album with her quartet, composer/multiinstrumentalist
Laura Schuler responded: “it’s as blinding as a
Georgia O’Keeffe canvas, but imagine those flowing, vibrant lines of
hers intercut with sharp black and white geometric shapes.” The
album in question is Sueños Paralelos (Parallel Dreams), which,
according to its author, is a work that explores the conflicting faculties
of human nature: the rational and the emotional. The compositions are
elegant and highly digressive. Affecting, unpredictable and, at times,
volatile. They move between warm, prismatic, sensual spaces and the
jagged, disruptive and stark. Stylistically speaking, the key
coordinates on this one are: jazz and contemporary-classical with
occasional rock and electronica inflections.
The material was written in the winter of 2021. At the time, Schuler
was spending most of her days at the studio in front of the piano, with
a pencil and staff paper in her lap. She outlined the melodies by
singing them, while the harmonic and rhythmic structures were
mapped out on the piano. These basic ideas were then fleshed out on
paper, where she could get even more playful with the underlying
math, i.e., work out the rhythmic architecture. In her own words: “I
was searching for a spine. I wanted to write compositions that were
complex enough to push improvisation into an interesting place, but
simple enough to give everyone space to express themselves.”
Needless to say, she wrote all the parts with the strengths and
idiosyncrasies of each band member in mind: Tony Malaby (tenor
sax), Hanspeter Pfammatter (synths), and Lionel Friedli (drums). On
the final recordings, she plays the violin, and she peppers the material
with texture – singing and adding all types of effects. The record was
cut in just three days, at a cozy studio in Renens, Switzerland. What
we hear is a collage that Laura meticulously put together from
different takes. She was also responsible for mixing the record,
worked on the frequencies and balance of the music during a several
month long, careful process. In a sense, the studio became yet another
instrument in her hands, and a means to channel her ideas.
If you’ve ever spent a day running errands in Manhattan, that’s what this record feels like. It’s intense, it’s non-linear and there’s something
electric in the air, at all times. You can hear that everyone is giving it their all – they’re pushing to get through. The lead changes constantly,
often at a drop of a dime, yet it feels intuitive, fluid and definitely
unscripted. The analogy of trying to make it the nearest subway
station during rush hour is apt here, because, to make it, you really
have to be mindful of everything and everyone around you, and you
have to keep up with those wild rhythms the city serves you. Schuler
spent time in NYC shortly before she started working this record and
cites it as a major influence. In fact, having Tony Malaby on board
was, in part, informed by wanting to have that edgy, New York feel.
But, what makes this music so visceral is that the band went telepathic with it and tapped in! So, when you decide to press play on this one,
rest assured you will be transported to the realm of Sueños Paralelos.
-
Lukasz Polowczyk

credits

released March 17, 2023

LAURA SCHULER violin, comp, voc, fx

TONY MALABY tenor sax

HANSPETER PFAMMATTER synths

LIONEL FRIEDLI drums

All compostions written by LAURA SCHULER

Recorded at STUDIO PHONOTOPE, RENENS in May 2021

Mixed by LAURA SCHULER

Mastered by MARTIN RUCH

Produced by LAURA SCHULER

Executive Producer CLEMENS KURATLE

Artwork by CARLOS ESTEVEZ, graphic Design by FLORINE BAERISWYL

Supported by Kanton Bern & Stadt Bern, Stadt Biel, Stadt Langenthal, Burgergemeinde Bern & MIGROS KULTURPROZENT

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