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Produced by Marcela Lucatelli
Marcela Lucatelli - composition, vocals, electronics and conduction
Li Yingchun - dizi/xiao
Erik Kimestad - trumpet
Eugen Lontos - bass trombone
Qi Jie - pipe
Zhou Linyi - zhongruan
Henrik Olsson - electric guitar
Wang Yifan - guzheng
Mi Xuanye - yangqin
Leonhard Dering - piano
Xu Ziling - jinghu
Alva Rasmussen - viola
Lyrics by Hugo Ball, Marcela Lucatelli and others
“now现在/决不never” was commissioned for and premiered at PULSAR Festival on March 13th 2018 at The Royal Danish Music Academy, Copenhagen
lyrics
Marcela Lucatelli’s “now現在/决不never” confronts the violent globalization of repertoire by challenging this “trad sublime” to a play-fight in the conservatory. Moving both irreverently and affectionately through, traditions, languages, technologies and bodies, “now現在/决不never” relativises the power structures that ossify aesthetics into the cudgels of propaganda for the global north. But as ever with Lucatelli’s work, the complexity of what it explores doesn’t allow for a simple or moralistic conclusion. Instead, that which it critiques unavoidably infuses the means by which critique is made, leaving the listener with the impression of having witnessed a heart to heart chat between two old friends sitting at opposite ends of the same sinking boat. “now現在/决不never” then is the approximate time of this unacknowledged crisis’ arrival. - Macon Holt
credits
released April 2, 2021
Recorded live and mixed by DKDM Tonemeisters
Mastered by Emil Thomsen
Cover art by Preto Matheus
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