Dawn Breaks
Ravello, 2019
8/10
An electronics virtuoso, Maija Hynninen might have a different idea than you or I of what the sounds of morning should entail, and that vision unfolds here with the utmost creativity and precision.
“Winnowing” starts the listen with harrowing keys that inject fleeting melody amid the darker setting as Hynninen flirts with artistic noise, and “…Siout Aurora Procedit: As The Dawn Breaks” follows with violin and electronics manipulating textures in thriving, mysterious ways as singing is used like an instrument.
“Orlando-Fragments” is broken up into 5 parts and 4 poems that vary from bare beauty with lovely singing, to cinematic, operatic swells, and blurry melodica stemming from the clarinets, flutes, harps and keys. “Freedom From Fear” ends the listen adventurous with an oboe and electronics feeding off one another in ambient, sometimes aberrant ways, where the feedback work strategically.
A very unique effort where classical sounds meet experimental flourishes from Hynninen, as long as you’re open to abstract and unpredictable moments, Dawn Breaks will settle in nicely.
Travels well with: Hevreh Ensemble- Path Of Light; Patterns- Chamber Works