In the Glow of Distant Fires, by JOHANNES MALFATTI

In the Glow of Distant Fires

by JOHANNES MALFATTI

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1.	AS WE 02:26	buy track
2.	STOOD TOGETHER 02:37	buy track
3.	IN A CIRCLE 04:04	buy track
4.	SOMEONE POINTED 02:54	buy track
5.	TO THE FIRES 04:36	buy track
6.	ON THE HORIZON 02:35	buy track
7.	AND AT THAT MOMENT 01:55	buy track
8.	I HOPED 01:34	buy track
9.	BY THE TIME 05:28	buy track
10.	THE LIGHT HAD REACHED US 03:15	buy track
11.	THE FIRES HAD LONG BURNED OUT 04:58	buy track

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"In the Glow of Distant Fires" is a selection of impromptu compositions for church organs in Berlin. The music was recorded between Summer 2020 and Spring 2021 during the shooting of the feature film "Whales" that documents churches in the former West part of Berlin.

The churches were constructed in the 1950s & 60s after the devastations of World War II, to serve in part as a reminder of the horrors of war and The Holocaust. All built in a brutalist architectural style, the buildings embody and convey a distinct futurism that strongly inspired the mood of the compositions.

My goal was to capture the idiosyncrasies of the individual organs and explore their sonic possibilities beyond standard registrations and playing techniques and thus provide a unique sonic fingerprint for each section of the film.

But the music is also a reckoning with questions of spirituality and mortality in the face of personal loss and the eerie times that were the days of lock down.

As we stood together in a circle someone pointed to the fires on the horizon and at that moment, I hoped by the time the light had reached us, the fires had long burned out.

In memory of Hilde

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Johannes Malfatti is a composer, pianist, drummer and sound designer from Berlin.

He works as composer for film and theatre, releases solo work and is as part of several music projects most notably with long standing collaborator Olivier Alary. With Alary he has released the joined album "u,i" on 130701 and has been part of his project ensemble (FatCat Records) since 2003.

His solo work is informed by Post-Minimalism, Ambient and Experimental Music, often combining acoustical and electronic elements to create rich and slowly moving sonic environments. He has seen releases on labels such as 130701, FatCat Records, One little Indian, Glacial Movements, Seikomart, WMF Records and Deco.

Since graduating from Filmuniversity Babelsberg with a degree in Sound Design for Audio-Visual Media, he has composed soundtracks for dozens of international feature films and stage productions ranging in style from electronic music to orchestral composition.

His collaborations include artists, musicians and choreographers such as Yair Elazar Glotman, Soundwalk Collective, Björk, Octet, Cat Power, Emanuele Soavi, Christoph Winkler, Jeff Wood, Laurie Young, Kodac Ko, Arno Coenen, Pfadfinderei, Benny Nemer, Candice Breitz, Jim Rakete and film directors such as Laura Poitras, Yung Chang, Guy Édoin, Maxim Giroux and Robert Guédiguian a.o.

www.johannesmalfatti.com

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released October 13, 2023

Thanks to: Christoph Krüger, Max Cramer, Friedolin Schüpper, Jeff Wood, Olivier Alary, Benoit de Villeneuve, Benjamin Morando, Radu Malfatti

cover photo: Max Cramer

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