HAUSCHKA - FOREIGN LANDSCAPES (LP)

Hauschka Foreign Landscapes on Vinyl LP

The follow-up to 2008’s breakthrough Ferndorf, Hauschka’s Foreign Landscapes represents another tremendous shift for FatCat’s engaging composer/pianist: nine of its twelve tracks feature a 12-piece string and wind ensemble from San Francisco’s Magik*Magik Orchestra alongside Volker Bertelmann’s own prepared piano.

While Ferndorf explored the composer’s relationship with his pastoral hometown, Foreign Landscapes is an album of travel, locational snapshots, and shift; always evocative, Hauschka’s compositions here sing with the urgency and movement of exploration, the rushing exhilaration of new cities, new environments.

Now dark and intimate, now playful, now driving, the ensemble’s fleshed-out instrumentation enables Hauschka to bring his exuberant versatility to a new and vital level. With Foreign Landscapes, Hauschka stretches for, and reaches, stunning new realms.

Hauschka Foreign Landscapes Track Listing

1. Alexanderplatz
2. Iron Shoes
3. Mount Hood
4. Madeira
5. Union Square
6. Snow
7. Early In The Park
8. Kamogawa
9. Children
10. Sunny Mission
11. Kouseiji
12. Trost