Citadels & Sanctuaries
by Jeremiah Cymerman
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about
Jeremiah Cymerman is a New York City based clarinetist and producer working at the intersection of improvised, electroacoustic, and experimental music. Since the early 2000s, his prolific recorded output for labels such as Tzadik, Astral Spirits, and Cymerman’s own 5049 Records have been described by The Wire as “blown out studio creations that merge extended reed techniques with the crushing, airless sonics of black metal.”
After working tirelessly in New York’s avant-garde music communities for the better part of 20 years, Cymerman’s 40th birthday inspired him to release a “coming of age” album. Each piece on Citadels & Sanctuaries is dedicated to a composer that has played a vital role in the clarinetist’s musical development, paying tribute to the various idiosyncratic approaches of Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman, Evan Parker, and many others.
“I wanted to inhabit the sound worlds of these artists, participating with the music as a player like I have as a listener,” Cymerman explains. “Some pieces were very deliberate from the start, while others happened more organically after they were being shaped. With different people in mind, it helped me focus each piece to get it to completion.”
Recorded during a month-long residency at Brooklyn art space Pioneer Works in late 2020, Cymerman’s fifth solo album is his most accessible work to date. While past releases have included extensive edits, overdubs, and effects processing to push his clarinet into the realm of abstraction, nearly each piece on Citadels & Sanctuaries was captured in a single take.
“This album was recorded when playing lines and melodies were feeling really good for me,” says Cymerman. “It feels good to be able to share my work with people who might not have all this context about the music. They can just enjoy it because it has an immediacy to it. There are abrasive, dissonant parts that might be off-putting, but for the most part I like showing another side of myself. I don’t want to just make abstract, dark music all the time.”
“From the Metaphysical to the Transcendental (For Bill Smith)” opens the album with curlicues of clarinet drifting through a meditative backdrop of synth drones and chiming percussion. This piece for the late Canadian reed player and founding member of the CCMC was the first dedication planned for Citadels & Sanctuaries. “Spheres of Humanity (For Alvin Lucier)” introduces higher-pitched tones, before “The Absolute and Its Tearing (for Horațiu Rădulescu)” unleashes a torrent of sputtering electronics.
“I got a sound going between my clarinet and a pedal that created a repetitive psychedelic glitch and threw up a hard left-right pan,” Cymerman... more
After working tirelessly in New York’s avant-garde music communities for the better part of 20 years, Cymerman’s 40th birthday inspired him to release a “coming of age” album. Each piece on Citadels & Sanctuaries is dedicated to a composer that has played a vital role in the clarinetist’s musical development, paying tribute to the various idiosyncratic approaches of Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman, Evan Parker, and many others.
“I wanted to inhabit the sound worlds of these artists, participating with the music as a player like I have as a listener,” Cymerman explains. “Some pieces were very deliberate from the start, while others happened more organically after they were being shaped. With different people in mind, it helped me focus each piece to get it to completion.”
Recorded during a month-long residency at Brooklyn art space Pioneer Works in late 2020, Cymerman’s fifth solo album is his most accessible work to date. While past releases have included extensive edits, overdubs, and effects processing to push his clarinet into the realm of abstraction, nearly each piece on Citadels & Sanctuaries was captured in a single take.
“This album was recorded when playing lines and melodies were feeling really good for me,” says Cymerman. “It feels good to be able to share my work with people who might not have all this context about the music. They can just enjoy it because it has an immediacy to it. There are abrasive, dissonant parts that might be off-putting, but for the most part I like showing another side of myself. I don’t want to just make abstract, dark music all the time.”
“From the Metaphysical to the Transcendental (For Bill Smith)” opens the album with curlicues of clarinet drifting through a meditative backdrop of synth drones and chiming percussion. This piece for the late Canadian reed player and founding member of the CCMC was the first dedication planned for Citadels & Sanctuaries. “Spheres of Humanity (For Alvin Lucier)” introduces higher-pitched tones, before “The Absolute and Its Tearing (for Horațiu Rădulescu)” unleashes a torrent of sputtering electronics.
“I got a sound going between my clarinet and a pedal that created a repetitive psychedelic glitch and threw up a hard left-right pan,” Cymerman... more
credits
released August 20, 2021
All music performed and recorded at Pioneer Works, November 2020 by Jeremiah Cymerman
Mixed by Marc Urselli & Jeremiah Cymerman
Artwork & layout by Toby Driver
Deepest thanks to Justin Frye & everyone at Pioneer Works
All music performed and recorded at Pioneer Works, November 2020 by Jeremiah Cymerman
Mixed by Marc Urselli & Jeremiah Cymerman
Artwork & layout by Toby Driver
Deepest thanks to Justin Frye & everyone at Pioneer Works
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Jeremiah Cymerman (b. 1980) Low drones, earth tones, and birth stones.
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