Go Within (2020/2022)
Eleni Ralli (@eleniralli8365)
Don-Paul Kahl, tenor saxophone without mouthpiece and pre-recorded tenor saxophone with mouthpiece
Performed Live at Unternehmen Mitte (UM)
Basel, Switzerland
17 November 2022
Recording Engineer: Robin Michel
Videography and Engineering: Santiago Villar Martín / Musician's Eye
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Programme Note (written by Don-Paul Kahl):
Go Within was composed by Greek-born, Swiss-based composer Eleni Ralli for the debut album of Don-Paul Kahl, entitled “Go Within”. Written and commissioned specifically for this aforementioned album, this piece is a reinvention of my dreams and hopes. Ralli drew inspiration directly from Rainer Maria Rilke’s first letter to a young poet. The work is written for live tenor saxophone without mouthpiece and pre-recorded tenor saxophone played from a speaker embedded inside the instrument. Quite literally, the sound of the pre-recorded saxophonist comes from within them. Ralli beautifully weaves contemporary techniques together - not so much as a glossary of what is possible on the saxophone, but as functional musical elements. Taking advantage of my previous life as a singer, Eleni Ralli uses speech, sprechstimme, and vocal elements in her work - taken directly from Rilke’s letter. The work is at once demanding and virtuosic for both sides of the saxophonist, with and without mouthpiece; however, there is a certain simple elegance to Eleni Ralli’s work which comes across as both quaint and blossomed - much like the content from which she took inspiration.
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