Influenced by contemporary, jazz and ambient styles, Victor Chorobik’s work captures the essence of sounds, scenes and timeless human stories. Electronic instruments weave an evocative backdrop to complementary acoustic "storylines" told by flutes, reeds, percussion. For Victor, the composition process, free improvisation, and the act of performance all involve the construction of these musical narratives.
Victor Chorobik
Desert of Clouds
Label: IRIS LIGHT RECORDS, 2003
Catalogue No: i-LIGHT33CD
Format: CD
Influenced by contemporary, jazz and ambient styles, Victor Chorobik’s work captures the essence of sounds, scenes and timeless human stories. Electronic instruments weave an evocative backdrop to complementary acoustic "storylines" told by flutes, reeds, percussion. For Victor, the composition process, free improvisation, and the act of performance all involve the construction of these musical narratives.
Audio Playlist:
Contemporary Polish Jazz
Tracks:
- Notes from the Journey
- Prayer Wheels
- Road to Namtso Lake
- Prayer for Long Life
- ...and Enter the City
- View from a Distance
- Mantra of Guru Rinpoche
- Different Mountains
- Snow of Tibet
- The Shadow Dance - Second Round
- After the Rain
Performed by:
Victor Chorobik - KorgX3 workstation, Yamaha WX11, flutes, dudek, bowed guitar, bass, percussion, samples
Gyalten Rinpoche - voice
Mariusz Kwiatkowski - soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet
guests:
Larisa Lebeda - violin, viola
Victor Lebeda - double bass
Recorded:
2002
About:
Victor Chorobik is a designer, multi-instrumentalist and composer whose music converges many cultures and styles. Originally from Poland, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow before coming to Vancouver in the early 1980s. His visceral sound experiences draw on many musical influences including jazz, classical, rock and world music. He uses acoustic instruments and digital technology like a palette of colors and paints musical pictures that alternately probe and haunt, soothe and uplift. Victor combines his passion for music and world culture with strong visual perception and an instinctive sense of story that comes from his work as a multimedia and exhibit designer to compose streetscapes in music.
Reviews:
Desert Of Clouds evokes the feeling of floating over a sunny, pristine steppe, gliding through small eastern villages, trekking across great plains of sunlight, icebound cliffs staggered over the distance... more
