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Christian Loffler

Parallels

Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: November 27, 2020

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2 Moldau  
3 Dir Jehova  
4 Gavotte  
5 Nocturne  
6 Nadir  
7 Pastoral  
8 Fate  
9 Freiyheit  
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Invited to experiment with Deutsche Grammophon's Shellac Project – a collection of digitized material restored from early 20th-century 78s in a collaborative initiative with Google Arts & Culture – German musician, visual artist and producer Christian Löffler has created his own experimental electronica tribute to Beethoven. Löffler's digital EP Parallels (Beethoven), featuring "Pastoral", "Fate", "Freiyheit" and "Funebre", released on 27 November 2020 on the Yellow Label.

"When listening to the recordings, I got the idea that Beethoven's music was actually very human and accessible but became somewhat unearthly with decades of replaying and overthinking it," Löffler  explains. "I wanted to bring it back to the very basic feels."

The artist was given open access to the Shellac Project by Deutsche Grammophon – he took the complete set of recordings to his log-cabin studio on Germany's Darss peninsula and started improvising around individual tracks.

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    Posted At: February 11, 2024
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  • Christian Loffler discusses 'Parallels' with Harmonious World Podcast
    Posted At: April 12, 2021

    Invited to experiment with Deutsche Grammophon's Shellac Project – a collection of digitized material restored from early 20th-century 78s in a collaborative initiative with Google Arts & Culture – German musician, visual artist and producer Christian Löffler has created his own experimental electronica tribute to Beethoven. Löffler's digital EP Parallels (Beethoven), fe...

  • Christian Loffler achieves a smart balance on 'Parallels,' handling Beethoven's material respectfully but not creativity's stifled / textura
    Posted At: December 11, 2020

    While well-intentioned, makeovers by electronic producers of classical works often miss the mark for any number of reasons. The integrity of the original can suffer, for example, if the interpreter goes so far that the essence of the composer's work gets lost in the process. Christian Löffler (b. 1985) achieves a smart balance on this EP (now available digitally and as a physical release in Febr...
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