Galperine's ECM New Series debut, Theory of Becoming, is one of the most original and evocative albums of the year. A composer of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, he explains the sound world the album represents as, "an augmented reality of acoustic instruments, created from recordings made with real and virtual instruments. The numerous transformations the instruments undergo allow me to capture their acoustic nature while also adding techniques and colors impossible to produce in reality..."
Release date:
January 6, 2023
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