Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Daniel Tamayo - No Strings Attached vol​.​1 (September 2021)

No String Attached is a string orchestra and jazz ensemble.

Any profits will be used for future realisations of this project.

As a master student at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Daniel Tamayo started this project as his main undertaking for his composition degree, founding a large ensemble of students within the HfMT and other recognised musicians residing in Cologne. The CD recording took place in October 2017 at the Konzert Saal of the HfMT Köln, where in January 2019 the project was presented as a concert, with new instrumental additions and new pieces.

This music uses a chromatic language, seizing functionality and blocks of sound that resemble tonality. It is written with a loose form, developing musical events and transforming them inside of a consistent environment. It also expresses an interest in the relation between dissonance and stability in tonal and non-tonal contexts.

1. Simply
2. Asyndetonean Prelude
3. Owl
4. Spekulation
5. As if, As if (Live)

Daniel Felipe Tamayo Gómez
Composition and Guitar.

Mariam Chatzaki
Conductor.

Cheng-Hung Tsai.
Concertmaster

Strings
Violin I:
Cheng-Hung Tsai
JeeYoung Choi
Iora Kama
Magdalena Lorenz
Luís López Jorge

Violin II:
Ségolène DeBeaufond
Yang Lin
Ellen Vong
Barbara Toth

Viola:
Anastasia Agapova
Sophie Rasmussen
Julia Casañas Castellví
- Hanna Dembny

Cello:
Ching-Jung Chung
Ana Belen Ruales Aguilar
Sofía Martín Rodríguez

Flute:
Ilja Gussarov

Trumpet, Flugelhorn:
Ferdinand Schwarz

Soprano and Tenor Saxophone:
Jens Böckamp
Florian Fries

Piano:
Moritz Preisler
Double bass:
Conrad Noll
Drums:
Dominik Mahnig

Recording Engineers:
Reinhard Kobialka
Marvin Böttger
Benjamin Bentz

Stage assistance:
Richard Schwarz

Mustafa Khalaf
Film Realization