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On her first solo CD, published on NURNICHTNUR, German pianist
Marit Schlechte assembles nine tracks: six compositions played
on the keyboard are completed with three compositions which use
exclusively the inside of the piano. Each piece of this very
conceptual music represents a sound picture which seems static
on the outside but is, in fact, quite lively in itself. They
emulate monochrome paintings which are interlarded with all kinds
of grass and earthy crumbs. The beholder may grasp the whole
picture at a glimpse but with a knowing and loving eye, will
also slowly follow all those sticky vegetable remains, feel its
surface with tender hands, and re-compose new pictures with the
structures emerging from colour over and over again. It is playing
on the edge. Her source material are short motives and intervals
which are employed and repeated consciously. Repetitions are
altered just in the moment when they start manifesting themselves.
A balancing act between unleashed motor activity and construction
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