{"product_id":"0199350370182-gravitations","title":"Gravitations","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHAGGAI COHEN-MILO ANNOUNCES GRAVITATIONS ALBUM Stanton (trumpets), Tamuz Dekel (guitar), Amir Bresler and Ziv Ravitz (drums), and spoken word Album out June 13, 2025 – Live premiere at artist Stimulus. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle on June 14, 2025 Describing his creative approach, Haggai Cohen- Berlin-based double bassist and composer Haggai Milo likens it to space travel. “I feel like a spaceship Cohen-Milo, known for blurring boundaries drawn to the moon – the classical work – and then between genres and art forms, announces the accelerating past it, navigating with counter-force release of Gravitations, a bold new work recorded to explore new worlds beyond.” With Gravitations, live at Hamburg’s iconic Laeiszhalle. Commishe orbits the originals in a process of conversation, sioned by Symphoniker Hamburg, Gravitations study, and improvisation – searching for their reimagines the gravitational pull of classical music – emotional core and transforming it into something not through arrangement or adaptation, but entirely new with his collaborators. At its core, through Cohen-Milo’s radical new compositions, Gravitations asks: What are the great masterpieces which vastly depart from the original works of of classical music from the last 150 years telling us, Mahler, Verdi, and Debussy. Created as part of a and how are their stories still relevant today? three-part concert series, Gravitations reflects composer’s engagement with the classical Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Verdi’s Requiem, repertoire, reinterpreted through a dynamic fusion and Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune of jazz, improvisation, and spoken word. Perform- – selected in collaboration with Daniel Kühnel, ing on double bass, Haggai Cohen-Milo leads an Intendant of the Symphoniker Hamburg – serve as exceptional ensemble featuring Emma Rawicz and the creative launching pads for the project. The delivers a meditation on grief and identity over result is a richly textured and deeply human record: Cohen-Milo’s darkly playful textures. Gravitations is “It’s my reaction to the well-known passage from an album that never stands still. It moves fluidly Verdi’s Requiem, part of the Dies Irae sequence in between jazz, classical, hip hop, and something the Catholic Mass,” says the composer. “While entirely its own. At times, it soars with freedom and working on this piece, I met with conductor Sylvain lightness; at others, it locks into precise grooves or Cambreling, who described that section as one of turns inward in poetic reflection. Rather than the most important in the entire Requiem. I drew merely blending classical and jazz traditions, on the rhythmic feel and phrasing of the bass line Gravitations creates a new space where both can and tried to write a ‘tearful day song’ for myself. I coexist – preserving the essence of the originals kept coming up with different melodies – while giving them a contemporary, living voice. eventually, by combining the absurdity of sadness, self-reflection, and a touch of dark humour, I think I The release of the album marks the beginning of a arrived at the right melody.” The second single, larger journey. Upcoming performances include the Song of the Earth, is one of the album’s more Lausitz Festival in September, followed by a new swinging tracks, quoting directly from Mahler’s interdisciplinary staging in Shanghai in October, song. “With careful listening, you’ll hear the which will incorporate elements of traditional original motives. The track closes with Mahler’s Chinese opera. Looking ahead to 2026, Haggai theme nearly as he wrote it, though reimagined Cohen-Milo will debut two new programmes with our sound.” The lead track of the album, 3+3, inspired by Dvořák’s New World Symphony and is inspired by Debussy and structured around two Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. sections, each containing three bars drawn from his original work. Recorded in one-take sessions and written specifically for this ensemble, designed to allow space for improvisation around central themes, Gravitations captures the vulnerability and raw intensity of live performance. “I’ve always loved live recordings,” says Haggai Cohen-Milo. “There’s nowhere to hide – you hear the story, the risk, the energy between musicians, the hall, and the audience.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Cohen-Milo, Gravitations is ultimately about building community through music. “I’m writing music so I can play it with my friends – that’s always been my dream. Music as a social tool – for Photo credit: Joanna Janke conversation, connection, and exploration with the band and with listeners.” That communal spirit shines in Lacrimosa Part Two, a rap-driven coda to the album’s opening track, where Stimulus \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tracklist \u003cbr\u003e1. Lacrimosa \u003cbr\u003e2. Lacrimosa-Epilogue \u003cbr\u003e3. Salva me \u003cbr\u003e4. Song Of The Earth \u003cbr\u003e5. Descending Chords \u003cbr\u003e6. 3+3 \u003cbr\u003e7. Verdi Transition \u003cbr\u003e8. Debussy Transition \u003cbr\u003e9. 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