G Prokofiev - Breaking Screens
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Label: Melodiya
Cat No: MELCD1002646
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 15th October 2021
Contents
Works
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6Ball Games
Be Ready
Change Up
Compound Stabular
Fivatak
Green Into Red
Isolation
It's Rising
Memory Fields
Mobocracy
Reflessivo
Sad Colours III
Sad Colours II
Sad Colours I
Seven Steps (to the 7th Floor)
Artists
Gabriel Prokofiev (electronics)Tia Hockey (voice)
Kati Yla-Hokkala (voice)
Sean Gandini (voice)
Alexander Whitley (voice)
Erin O’Toole (voice)
OpenSoundOrchestra
Conductor
Stanislav MalyshevWorks
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6Ball Games
Be Ready
Change Up
Compound Stabular
Fivatak
Green Into Red
Isolation
It's Rising
Memory Fields
Mobocracy
Reflessivo
Sad Colours III
Sad Colours II
Sad Colours I
Seven Steps (to the 7th Floor)
Artists
Gabriel Prokofiev (electronics)Tia Hockey (voice)
Kati Yla-Hokkala (voice)
Sean Gandini (voice)
Alexander Whitley (voice)
Erin O’Toole (voice)
OpenSoundOrchestra
Conductor
Stanislav MalyshevAbout
The result is stunning. However, it does not make for easy listening, but for listening. Breaking Screens is a 16-track emotive journey that takes the listener through a dystopian musical space that expresses the frustrations of life’s mundanity; the disdain of societal normativity; and the rising fear of the global health and climate crisis. ‘Mobocracy’ is an anxious and panicked techno-classical explosion, ‘Compound Stabuler’ exudes the feelings of life exhaustion through a mash of synth-led experimental rock, whereas the shortest of the interludes ‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6’ is a mesmerising 50 seconds of eerie vocals performed by the UK’s Alexander Whitley Dance Company and Gandini Juggling, that sucker punches the soul by dissolving boundaries with unease. But what this project also highlights is that despite life’s precarity, there are also moments of calm, joy and beauty which must be rejoiced, as seen in tracks ‘Sad Colours I, II & III’ and ‘Reflessivo’.
Breaking Screens is a confrontational and anarchic-fuelled classical project which playfully leaps across genre boundaries, refusing categorisation. It dips into grime, techno and ambient and crashes through hip hop, house and alternative rock in a hedonistic fury, rebelling unapologetically against the apathy of modern life.
What is unique about Gabriel’s production approach to this new project is his ability to disrupt not only through the effortless fusing of disparate genres, but how the beat structure has been upturned and modified. The generic 4/4 beat has been reworked up to 5 ('Fivatak', ‘Mobocracy’), 7 ('Seven Steps', 'Ball Games', 'It's Rising') or down to 3 (‘Memory Fields’), the result being that melodies are more angular, ideas are less restricted, free to explore their own journeys. This contemporary musicality breaks through not only the cultural banality that continues to shape modern life but the ingrained formulaic structures that can suffocate creativity and suppress innovation. And with Russian collective the OpenSoundOrchestra at the project’s forefront, the performance of live strings is essential, as what cannot be lost is the energising human touch that is central to this project’s originality.
Breaking Screens is to be released through the iconic former state-owned record label, Melodiya, a new partnership for Gabriel after two symphonic albums released on Signum Records.
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