It's here. My new double album For Mattia, The Complete Recordings is available worldwide. Released by Butler Records / V2 Benelux.. Enjoy listening!
In the spring of 2019, the - now almost sold out - album For Mattia was released. The press was ecstatic about the album, with reviews from VPRO3voor12 (masterpiece), Heaven Magazine (depth and emotion), to All About Jazz (a universe stuffed with wonders). At that time, sixteen pieces were recorded, of which nine made it onto the album. Now, five years later, the remaining seven compositions are being released for the first time, along with alternative versions, a remix by Pim van de Werken, and the single that started it all.
The cover is a detail from the tapestry Resurrection by Janpeter Muilwijk.
For Mattia - The Complete Recordings
Deluxe edition, digi-pack double cd, 20 tracks, 1 hour, 27 minutes. 16 page full-colour booklet with lots of background information
Butler Records, V2 Benelux
€ 25,00
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TRACKS
CD I
01 For Mattia
02 Summit
03 The Opposite
04 Gentleman
05 Julia
06 Pendulum Waves
07 The Cooper
08 Carried Away
09 On the Edge
CD II
01 Corn
02 Beguine
03 Mike Juliett Hotel Mike
04 Julia - Rework
05 The Rider
06 Father
07 The Cooper - Rework
08 The Beggar
09 The Funny Laugh of Jackelin
10 Julia - Pim van de Werken Remix
11 For Mattia - Single Edit
LISTEN
MUSICIANS
Douwe Eisenga
ARTWORK
Janpeter Muilwijk, Snowball
ALBUM PRESENTATION
September 28, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
For Mattia - Complete Recordings - Sheet Music
Limited deluxe edition, bounded hardcopy book, 74 pages, 17 pieces with an illustrated introduction and new lay-outs with better page turning points
€ 34,50
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CONTAINS
01 For Mattia
02 Summit
03 The Opposite
04 Gentleman
05 Julia
06 Pendulum Waves
07 The Cooper
08 Carried Away
09 On the Edge
10 Corn
11 Beguine
12 Mike Juliett Hotel Mike
13 The Rider
14 Father
15 The Beggar
16 The Funny Laugh of Jackelin
17 For Mattia - Single Edit
PRESS
PZC
The piano piece has sparked an extraordinary emotional response, continuing to this day.
NPO KLASSIEK
MUsic that needs attention
…For Mattia - The Complete Recordings features mostly very subdued, but as always with Douwe, highly accessible music, and should therefore appeal to a wide audience. Highly recommended!
review by Theo Volk
PRESSQUOTES ABOUT THE 2019 ALBUM
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
...The record holds us captive as if we were gazing on something awesome like a world, but viewed from outside its gravitational pull. So that we can see its every peak and valley and how each becomes the next. Eisenga has crafted a record as spacious as the cosmos....
....a universe stuffed with wonders.....
....the compositions glitter with a lyricism many vocalists cannot manage. As if Eisenga is playing with light as well as melody. Weaving the two about each other like threads of sound and aether.....
TEXTURA
...For Mattia can be seen as a culmination and crystallization of the personal style the Dutch composer...
...as haunting as ever as it advances through its plaintive melodies and lilting rhythms. Lower-register figures provide a firm foundation for gently trilling themes to assert themselves, the material subtly growing in urgency and tension and the merging of right and left hands producing as mesmerizing a dedication as could be imagined....
NATIVE DSD
Douwe Eisenga has spent most of his life as a musician composing music for others, but “For Mattia” featuring his own compositions marks his debut as a recording artist. The music reminds one of Glass or even Arvo Part in that simple melodies and a certain amount of repetition can evoke a huge amount of feelings. I listen to this music at night, with the lights dimmed— and I remember things. And I imagine things. And I feel things.
PZC
...Now there is a beautifully designed album with nine recent piano pieces, including For Mattia, in that characteristic, compelling Eisenga style that leaves virtually no one untouched...
MUSIC EMOTION
....It is a moody and rhythmic composition with repeated motifs that are reminiscent of Keith Jarrett....
,,,,fascinating.....you just keep listening to the whole piece.
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