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Wintersong

Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq

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往年のダコタ・スイートの名曲を、クエンティン・サージャックのピアノ伴奏で。
静寂と共に降りてきた冴えた空気に紡がれ、そっと灯される、愛しい人へ捧ぐ冬の歌。


dakota suite & quentin sirjacq (ダコタ・スイート & クエンティン・サージャック) の新作「wintersong」をリリースします。
本作は、2015年にSCHOLEが主催した dakota suite & quentin sirjacq の日本ツアー来日中に録音された作品となっております。雪が時折ちらつき、春を待つ３月上旬、ツアーは開催されました。
dakota suite (クリス・フーソン)のまるで命を削るかの様に絞り出され、今にも静寂の中へ消えてしまいそうな歌声と、クエンティン・サージャックの楽曲の世界観を十二分に引き出す美しいピアノによって、往年の dakota suite の名曲が演奏されました。
楽曲に気持ちが入り込むあまり、歌えなくなりそうなクリス・フーソンをクエンティン・サージャックの見事なピアノバッキングが支え、導いていきます。歌とピアノという、とても潔く、シンプルな構成となっているため、dakota suiteの世界観、そしてクエンティン・サージャックのピアノアレンジの上手さが際立ちます。
アルバムタイトル楽曲でもある「wintersong」は dakota suite 活動初期にあたる1998年の発表となっており、それ以降、アルバムごとに不定形編成で活動してきましたが、その中でも一貫して描かれ続けた妻への愛や悲壮美は、録音会場に張り詰めた空気感をもたらし、一音、一音、そして静寂までも慈しむように向き合う純粋なその演奏は、これまで同様に唯一無二の美しさを感じさせてくれます。

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Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Macao • TOP 15 • 29 Nov 2019 Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Guatemala • TOP 40 • 22 Nov 2019 Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Taiwan • TOP 83 • 1 Sep 2021 iTunes Store • Alternative TOP ALBUMS • Mozambique • TOP 89 • 7 Aug 2019 Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Hong Kong • TOP 96 • 4 Sep 2019 Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Korea, Republic of • TOP 101 • 14 Dec 2021 Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Sweden • TOP 137 • 19 Sep 2021 Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Spain • TOP 156 • 1 Jul 2020 Apple Music • Alternative Top Albums • Slovenia • TOP 191 • 1 Jan 2021

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  • Dakota Suite

    Formed in Leeds, England to express the inner worldview of Chris Hooson. Debuted in 1998 with "Alone With Everybody". Twenty albums had been released until now. The line-up musicians changes in each album, but continues to compose music filled with sadness which is called as slow core or sad core. Recently, Quentin Sirjacq has joined as a support member, and released an album "dakota suite + quentin sirjacq", then went to Japan tour in 2015.

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  • Quentin Sirjacq

    Pianist/composer/multi-instrumentist Quentin Sirjacq was born in Paris in 1978. His eclectic musical interests keep him active as an improviser, a new music performer, and a composer of music for film, theater and radio. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands) between 1999 and 2004, where he completed an M.A. in Piano. While in the Netherlands, he played in a number of groups, he also worked with the bigband Tetzépi , Collison Palace and the Royal Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and performed in such prestigious halls as the Bimhuis, Ijsbreker and Beurs van Berlage, in addition to appearing at various European festivals. He met Fred Frith in Amsterdam's avant-garde music circuit and played with him several times, which lead to his enrollment at Mills College, CA to study composition. While at Mills, he has performed the music of F. Rzewski, J. Tenney and F. Frith, among others, and premiered a new work by José Maceda with virtuoso percussionist William Winant. This experience has allowed him to expand his relationship with the piano and his approach of music between traditions and experimentation. Since his debut album "La chambre claire" (2009), he has worked and performed regularly with Dakota suite (Chris Hooson and David Buxton), and has started a collaboration with Akira Kosemura and Shin Kikuchi for japanese label Schole records which lead him to release several albums on this label as well as being invited to perform in solo in Japan. He composed often for radio, films, or stage....

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