℗ 2020 Dacapo Records
| Released | February 14, 2020 |
| Duration | 40m 07s |
| Record Label | Dacapo Records |
| Catalogue No. | 8.226137 |
| Genre | Classical (Contemporary Era) |
The World Is Babel and Ivory
Signe Asmussen, Figura Ensemble, Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Cruel to Be Kind
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
6:41 | |||
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The World Is Babel and Ivory
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I. I Can Imagine You
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
5:44 | |||
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II. Worlds of Glass
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
3:25 | |||
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III. The Way
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
5:41 | |||
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IV. The World Is Babel and Ivory
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
4:58 | |||
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V. You Are My
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
6:46 | |||
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VI. All Rise
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
3:41 | |||
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Closer
Jakob Davidsen; Signe Asmussen; Figura Ensemble; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester |
3:11 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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Jakob Davidsen, with his Kammerat Orkester and FIGURA Ensemble, transports the listener away from safe, well-trodden paths on a genre-crossing adventure on a new album based on selected texts by William Shakespeare, Ursula Andkjær Olsen and Ole Sarvig.
The new album comprises three compositions, the main emphasis being on the suite The World Is Babel and Ivory, a musical staging of a text cycle from Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry collection Det 3. årtusindes hjerte ("The Heart of the Third Millennium", 2012). This composition is fringed by a prologue, the Shakespeare quotation "Cruel to Be Kind" from Hamlet (1603), and an epilogue, the Ole Sarvig poem "Nærmere" (Closer) from the collection Grønne digte (Green Poems, 1943). Using the poetry as their point of departure, Davidsen’s compositions deal with the mysteries and enigmatic riddles of existence.
Davidsen differs from many other composers in his linking of score music and improvisation. He puts it like this: “I’ve lots of things in my luggage, but today I primarily compose as myself. I am increasingly distancing myself from special compositional techniques and writing what I hear."
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Dacapo Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.46 -12.57 to -0.49 | -28.21 -34.19 to -25.81 | -23.60 -28.80 to -20.70 | 14 12 to 17 | |
| 1 | Cruel to Be Kind | -0.81 | -27.99 | -23.3 | 17 |
| 2 | I. I Can Imagine You | -0.49 | -26.88 | -22.1 | 17 |
| 3 | II. Worlds of Glass | -2.67 | -28.25 | -24.8 | 13 |
| 4 | III. The Way | -3.68 | -26.59 | -21.9 | 13 |
| 5 | IV. The World Is Babel and Ivory | -3.30 | -27.80 | -24.0 | 15 |
| 6 | V. You Are My | -3.54 | -28.17 | -23.2 | 14 |
| 7 | VI. All Rise | -0.63 | -25.81 | -20.7 | 14 |
| 8 | Closer | -12.57 | -34.19 | -28.8 | 12 |