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Amsterdam based Slovenian pianist and composer Miha Gantar has a very personal and very wide music vision, and the simultaneous release of several of its aspects seems logic, from the point of view of the artist but also of the listener, who is capable, this way, to achieve a complete experience of that sound world of a new, fresh, surprising and much welcomed player in the international creative music game. Each configuration (solo: “Origins of the Pure”; duo: “Songs and Serenades”; trio: “A Portrait of the Imaginary”; quartet: “Polymorphic Realities”; large ensemble: “Alternate History of the Future”) unrevels different approaches that are much more than the respective instrumentations, all of them «human and intimate» aspects of a defined aesthetic, as Nate Wooley points out in his liner notes. You can recognize the names of some participants, like Gerry Hemingway, Christian Lillinger and Axel Dorner in the quartet disc, but don’t listen to Gantar’s music starting on the basis of what you think you can recognize. The inverse audition would be more gratifying, for instance his association in duo with singer Marta Arpini, a work of pure affection, very emotional, in which melancholy and vivacity are expressions of the human spirit facing difficult circumstances. Five gems to discover.

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Miha Gantar Solo | Origins Of The Pure
Recorded at BIMHUIS Amsterdam between July 27th and 31st 2020 by Phillip ten Brink | Mix and Master by Paul Pouwer
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

Miha Gantar Duo | Songs And Serenades Feat. Marta Arpini
Recorded at POWER SOUND studio, Amsterdam, on October 22nd and 29th 2020 by Paul Power | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

Miha Gantar Trio | A Portrait Of The Imaginary
Recorded at BIMHUIS, Amsterdam on April 5th, 6th, and 12th 2021 by Paul Pouwer | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington | Assistance to the sound engineer Philip ten Brink and Selma Kalsbeek
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

Miha Gantar Quartet | Polymorphic Realities
Recorded at POWER SOUND studio, Amsterdam, September 13th and 14th 2021 by Paul Pouwer | Mix and master by Dave Darlington
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

Miha Gantar Large Ensemble | Alternate History Of The Future
Recorded at POWER SOUND, Amsterdam, Studio between December 2020 and June 2021 by Paul Pouwer | Mix and Master by Dave Darlington | Assistance to the sound engineer Selma Kalsbeek
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

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