Album
   
Album title
Home
Performer
Jan Gunnar Hoff, piano
Catalogue #
2L-168-SABD
2L-168-LP
EAN13
7041888526223 (SABD)
7041888526216 (clear vinyl LP)
7041888526254 (black vinyl LP)
ISRC-code
NOMPP2202010-140


Disc 1
Hybrid SACD
MCH 5.1DSD
Stereo DSD
RedBook PCM: MQA CD
Disc 2 Pure Audio Blu-ray
2.0 LPCM 192/24
5.1 DTS HD-MA 192/24
7.1.4 Auro-3D 96kHz
7.1.4 Dolby Atmos 48kHz
mShuttle: MQA + FLAC + MP3
Region: ABC - worldwide


Release date
May 2022
Recording date
August 2021

Location
STORMEN konserthus, Norway
Original source
DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
 

HOME

HOME can be seen both as a homage to and as a statement of belonging to northern Norway, with its naked landscape and its Arctic location. The title can also allude to a quest for identity, both from a personal and from an artistic perspective. All these sentiments and aspirations find expression in the music on this album. Many of the pieces here are interpretations of well known themes, while others are original compositions by Hoff. Some of the pieces are completely improvisatory.

In May 2021 Morten Lindberg got in touch with me and asked if I could make a solo recording in Stormen Concert Hall in Bodø. With open minds and very few pre-conceived ideas we went ahead and, broadly speaking, took things as they came – the way we felt at the time, the actual piano and the concert hall itself determining what we recorded for two days in August that year. This album does not aim to present a particular genre, with all the expectations such a commitment might carry, but rather to give each number its own shape and style. When you interpret text-based songs instrumentally it’s best to keep a sharp focus on melody, rhythm and phrasing. By freeing the phrasing of the melody from the constraints of a fixed tempo, I can put more strength and intensity into my interpretation, and broaden and embolden the melodic material. — Jan Gunnar Hoff, 2022

Recording sessions: Facebook Photo Album

Immersive Audio is a sonic sculpture that you can literally move around and relate to spatially; surrounded by music you can move about in the aural space and choose angles, vantage points and positions. Dolby Atmos and the Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the audience in a cocoon of life-like audio. Recorded in discrete 7.1.4 at DXD resolution.


HOME kan sees på som en hyllest og tilhørighet til Nord-Norge, med det nakne landskapet og den arktiske beliggenheten. I overført betydning kan det være en søken etter identitet, både i et personlig og kunstnerisk perspektiv. I tillegg til rene improvisasjoner inneholder albumet tolkninger av kjente låter og Jan Gunnar Hoffs egne komposisjoner.

Morten Lindberg kontaktet meg i mai 2021 om muligheten for å gjøre en soloinnspilling i Stormen konserthus i Bodø. Med tildels blanke ark gikk vi til verket og lot i stor grad situasjonen, klaveret og konsertsalen definere hva som ble spilt inn i løpet av to dager i august samme år. Noen stykker er helt improvisert mens andre er tolkninger av kjente låter og egne komposisjoner. Hensikten med albumet er ikke å presentere en bestemt sjanger, med de forventningene og begrensningene som ligger i dette, men å gi hvert enkelt avsnitt en utforming og presentasjon som oppleves som meningsfull i seg selv. Det å tolke tekstbaserte låter instrumentalt krever et nært fokus på melodi, rytmikk og frasering. Ved å la fraseringen være fristilt fra et fastlåst tempo, kan jeg legge mere kraft og intensitet i tolkningen og utdype det melodiske materialet. Som improviserende musiker vil mange av disse faktorene variere spontant med framføringen. — Jan Gunnar Hoff, 2022

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