Make You Stay, by Emily Wittbrodt

Make You Stay

by Emily Wittbrodt

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1.	Foolish 04:19 video	buy track
2.	Interlude 02:11	buy track
3.	Gladly Beyond 08:37	buy track
4.	You Do 03:06	buy track
5.	Will 07:49	buy track
6.	Intermission 01:27	buy track
7.	I see you standing 06:57	buy track
8.	Epilogue 01:55	buy track

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Make you stay is a cycle of eight experimental recitatives and instrumental pieces by cellist and composer Emily Wittbrodt. The compositions are based on baroque forms, transferred to the sound of a contemporary band (electronics, electric guitar, drums, cello, electric organ and chest organ). In terms of content, the cycle deals with forms of separation. In the four recitatives, texts of the 20th and 21st centuries were set to music: Poems by E.E. Cummings and Stine Sampers, fragments of lyrics by Astrud Gilberto and a text by Emily Wittbrodt herself. The four recitatives are each performed by one of the band members, so that all four musicians have a singing or speaking role.

All recitatives are followed by an "aria", without singing, purely instrumental: in this - according to the historical model - the content of the recitatives is musically processed and further spun.

The result is music that in a weird way may be reminiscent of early classical music due to its inner structure and the sound of the chest organ, but is clearly rooted in contemporary music. With the band consisting of Annie Bloch (vocals, electric organ, chest organ), Jan Philipp (vocals and drums), Wolfgang Pérez (vocals, electric guitar, electronics) and Emily Wittbrodt (voice, cello) active musicians of Germanys experimental pop and improvisation scene can be heard on the record.

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released September 22, 2023

The video trailer is an excerpt from Eleni Wittbrodt's full-length video for "make you stay" which will be released later this year.

Make You Stay was recorded June 2022 at Mount Wobble Studio Cologne. Thanks to Eradj Yakubov (cover), Edis Ludwig (mixing), Marcus Zilz (mixing and mastering), and Elisa Kühnl, Edis Ludwig and Dominik Lau for cicadas, synths and bass.

Photos: Ole-Kristian Heyer.

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