Utwory na płycie:

• Here it is (Leonard Cohen)
• Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)
• La blanche neige (Poulenc)
• A peine défigurée (Poulenc)
• Belle et ressemblante (Poulenc)
• El Santogua"o (Ruiz)
• Laulu Voim (Tormis)
• Härjad ootavad pühi (Tormis)
• Sakste soim (Tormis)
• Pihlapuu (Tormis)
• Vaeslapsed laanes (Tormis)
• Der Leisten (Kreisler)
• Ich hab ka Lust (Kreisler)
• S brent (Gebirtig)
• Dos lidl fun goldenem land (Gebirtig)
• Love Endures All Things (Moravec)
• Set Me As a Seal (Moravec)
• Greater Love (Moravec)
• Sabiá, coracao de uma viola (Escobar)
• Come live with me (Mäntyjärvi)
• The Silver Swan (Mäntyjärvi)
• Practical Arrangement (Sting)
• Moon Over Bourbon Street (Sting)

Leonard Cohen:
Here it is
Everybody Knows

Francis Poulenc:
La blanche neige
A peine défigurée
Belle et ressemblante

Frederico Ruiz:
El Santigua’o

Veljo Tormis:
Laulu voim
Härjad ootavad pühi
Sakste soim
Pihlapuu
Vaeslapsed laanes

Georg Kreisler:
Der Leisten
Ich hab ka Lust

Mordkhe Gebirtig:
S brent
Dos lidl fun goldenem land

Paul Moravec:
Love Endures All Things
Set Me As a Seal
Greater Love

Aylton Escobar:
Sabiá, coraçao de uma viola

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi:
Come Live With Me
The Silver Swan

Sting:
Practical Arrangement
Moon Over Bourbon Street

Landmarks are a point of orientation. The outstanding Calmus Ensemble interprets ten vocal 'landmarks' on their album of the same name for CARUS. They are works by ten composers from ten different countries. Musically, this varied programme opens up the traditional boundaries, with a mixture of the most diverse styles. Popular songwriters meet the classical avant-garde, folk meets jazz, South American rhythms groove alongside Yiddish melodies. You quickly realize, for example, that it's not such a long way from minimal music to pop and how easily classical harmonies and jazz sounds can be woven together. You will meet famous masters like Francis Poulenc, Leonard Cohen, Georg Kreisler or Sting, but you will definitely discover a lot of new and interesting things while listening to them - like the Cracow singer-songwriter Mordechaj Gebirtig or the South American composers Federico Ruiz and Aylton Escobar. With this fascinating album the vocal ensemble creates a kind of sounding globalization in the best sense of the word. The programme of this recording reflects a (post-) modern society that remembers the past, but always knows how to reinterpret it with great creativity and inspiration, a society that is ready to open up, sometimes pensive, only to laugh, dance and swing to its heart's content. The pieces brought together here serve us as points of orientation, they are landmarks and milestones of a lifelong journey.

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Recorded at Echolux Studio, Leipzig on 2 July, 4-5 & 11-12 November 2019.