Luka Kuplowsky - How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music [CD DIgipack]

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Cat. no: CDNDR9283
Format: CD DIgipack
Barcode: 623339928328
Release Date: 31 May 2024
Genre: Jazz

Luka Kuplowsky's voice is a paradox -- at times it sounds too hushed to be captured, as if it's going to disappear like smoke, then in the next instant it's as big as the sky - It is a voice that bends the ear to listen and whose music carves out a unique space for poetic language and improvisatory playfulness - In the four years following 2020's Stardust, a rich otherworldly album of pop and jazz romanticism, Kuplowsky has quietly expanded the scope of his creativity through a series of singles and collaborations that explore ambient electronic, avant-pop, and psychedelic tropicalia

On his new double LP "How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music", Kuplowsky extends his interest with improvisational ensembles and live recording, as its seven- piece band (Alex Lukashevsky, Anh Phung, Evan Cartwright, Felicity Williams, Josh Cole and Phillipe Melanson) craft a singular sound of spaciousness, experimentation and unbridled expressiveness that traverses traditions of jazz, folk and blues. Conceived as a record of adaptations and responses "to a millennia of poetry", the album draws together the poetry of Ryokan Taigu, Bohdan Ihor Antonych, Maria Rainer Rilke, Yosana Akiko, Du Fu, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, W.W.E Ross, Li Bai, and La Fontaine, placing them within a dynamic environment of ecstatic and imaginative expression. Produced by the luminary Toronto producer/ songwriter Sandro Perri, the new LP enfolds international literary and music infuences alongside hyper- local Toronto touchstones into a beautiful sprawling record of meditative and free- wheeling sonic adventurism.

In his hometown of Toronto, Kuplowsky remains an active member of jazz and songwriting communities, regularly organizing and performing with the eclectic tribute group The Holy Oak Family Singers and collaborating with Ian Daniel Kehoe in their avant-pop duo Ingredient.

CD DIgipack Tracks: Elixir of Immortality / To Pi Ssu Yao (Du Fu) / How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music (a response to Ryokan Taigu) / Generous Fool / Formal Meditation (Ryokan Taigu) / The Rain Has Not Yet Cleared / Self-Portrait (Bohdan Ihor Antonych) / Don't Be Jealous! (a response to Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi) / Thoughts in Exile / If Your Heart Remains Unchanged (Ryokan Taigu) / I Knew it Would Be You! (Ryokan Taigu) / I Pass the Evening Slowly / 4 Poems (Yosano Akiko) / Dreaming of Li Bai (Du Fu) / Thoughts WhileTravelling / Ars Poetica 2 (Bohdan Ihor Antonych) / The Frog that Wants to Make Itself as Big as an Ox (Jean De La Fontaine) / Mid Summer (Ryokan Taigu) / If Birds are Silent (W.W.E Ross) / What Luck! (Ryokan Taigu) / You Made Me Sing! (a response to Jalal al- Din Muhammad Rumi) / Elixir of Immortality pt. 2 / Wasting (Li Bai) / Fugitive Song (a response to Rainer Maria Rilke)