Music making at its most intimate. The sound of a musician alone, at home, improvising reflectively upon the piano. Of these solo pieces, the Ukraine-born Alperin says, "The mind was inert, the ears alert, and the music born practically without revisons. Improvisation here is simply the paintbrush, with the help of which you can be honest in the presence of the night."
At Home
Misha Alperin
- 1At Home
02:40 - 2Emptiness
04:59 - 3Nostalgia
02:38 - 4Seconds
01:48 - 5Nightfall
04:29 - 6Halling
02:29 - 7Light
02:06 - 8Game
04:38 - 9Shadows
04:26 - 1010th of February
04:30 - 11The Wind
03:58 - 12Njet
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The title tells the story. This is the sound of a musician alone, at his home in Norway. Improvising, reflectively, upon his own piano. As Misha Alperin says, "The mind was inert, the ears alert, and the music born practically without revisions. Improvisation here is simply the paintbrush with the help of which you can be honest in the presence of the night." One night in February 1998, Alperin turned on his tape recorder. He remembered that this night marked the 21st anniversary of his father's death. And with this thought in mind he began to play; he had not set out to make an album, nor was there any thought of an audience in mind. The music that he plays on "At Home", therefore, is unfiltered. The listener can almost hear his thoughts, and the emotional depth of the music is unmistakable.
Is it "jazz"' There are perhaps oblique connections to the soliloquies of Paul Bley or Bill Evans, but there are also affinities with modern composition. Alperin dedicates one piece to Olivier Messiaen; points of comparison could also be found with Ferderico Mompou or Hans Otte. And in Norway, Alperin has also made contact to local folk traditions - the tune called "Halling" is based upon a Norwegian folk dance.
In between all these points - jazz, modern composition, folk, the old Jewish music of his former homeland - Alperin's playing on "At Home" makes of such influences a tender, improvised music with a character all its own. Its also a music that echoes the peripatetic biography its maker. Alperin has led a nomad's life far from the world's jazz metropolises.
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