Alen Ilijic is an edgy multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and composer from Serbia. His musical vibrations are both harsh and soft, expressive and somber.
The performance from Belgrade SKC First FESTUM Festival - Unity of all Belgrade Art Schools is now released for free download within the promotion of Alen Ilijic's forthcoming album, which will be released for our record label soon. Click here to download it
Violin - Djordje Mijuskovic
Piano and amplifier - Alen Ilijic
Cover design - Kristina Tosic
Audio engineering - Matija Gajic
Produced by Alen Ilijic
© Alen Ilijic - NINETY AND NINE RECORDS - BMI
'' The performance represents the culmination of a three-day festival and I was privileged to close such a glorious manifestation. The performance included my friend Djordje Mijuskovic on violin and me on piano and amplifier, which, due to incredible energy and feedback from the audience ended up in the piano itself ''. - Alen Ilijic
'' There is a lyrical quality to it which is perfectly in tune with the current developments in the synthesis and coming together of a world music and cultural perspectives ''.
Amit Sen, Head of Performing Arts at City and Islington College
http://www.candi.ac.uk/
''Amplifier section, stable and vibrant as aura, blinks and closes that restless dialogue between piano and violin.It's been given velvety and gleaming tone, in spite of the dynamic waves and explosions (Alen's furious moment in diskant overlapping treble strings and Djorje's inverted etude).Spiritual light is always present - sometimes in the thin air, and sometimes as a strong point, thick and blinding.It causes melancholic and lyric feeling with light, not darkness.Alen is not gloomy.On the contrary, he could be aligned with Bach and Cage in unifying the human and the divine, the physical and spiritual.Alen is the one who wakes up!His work is Baroque, of course, in today's garment, but the illusionary moment of Baroque period stepped down with Alen and came to us!''
Lejla Mulaosmanovic, conductor and composer
''Alen Ilijic, composer, performer and visual artist but above all a human being.It is extremely an honour to have him as a truly friend.
Creation and working with Alen Ilijic through many years is something that exceeds every cliche and becomes timeless, where borders do not exist.
Maybe one of the best examples could be recently performed piece for piano, violin and amplifier.This work was done spontaneously, without any rehearsal and therefore resulted in pure energy and beauty of performance.That's why I'm sincerely appreciative.And we are going further''...
Djordje Mijuskovic, violinst, member of RTS Symphony Orchestra-Belgrade and Jazz-Funk band NAKED
http://ww1.rts.rs/muzicka/Simfonijski.htm
http://www.myspace.com/nakedjazz
'' Alen’s Work Begins, As I shall attempt to confirm; With or without direction. Forming regularities as regular as the foundation so kept, One needs listen, as Miles Davis uttered so generously. One may ‘feel but ‘hear the graveling look of suspicion. A ‘fragility of ‘touch and ‘strength upon which one may have all and so little; But this is not the extent to which one may precept such works. As it were or maybe, the work is long and studied, with a fraught nobility for ‘time, percussion and deviance Not at all what one wants to ‘hear, but what one must 'hear. As though the ‘hearing of one thing to ones objective order, performs. And another to that performances as suggestive or pertinently so. The language contorts what one may ‘know as relative to music, bringing upon a way of ‘music which ‘shows that ‘music as anything other than ‘itself, which is to say, object or objectified; material in compound. Of ones ‘senses, or ‘propositions of ‘knowing; or more over subjected to interpretation. One needs find leisure in the congruent affability’s, One needs find conclusion in conclusive matters not, The descriptive knowingness of sound and the functionality of that sound abundant; with little and every suggestion of something more, and far from less. As a construing of the mind, a 'catastrophe of reason, a sharp value of tradition and a eagerness to please one's own ideals, thus values, and laden conceptions of fostered historicisms. To teach and to learn in one such way, to seek question and be sought in the same, There is no meaning to what one can 'hear and what one can 'see, unless either are met with conjunctive structure for the slightest voluntary 'action, the dynamic of options, and the splendor of epistemic schisms. Alen is far from through with descriptive quires, open ears, open gestures; full and un-full gullets- to begin so diligently, of Alen’s work. Too immerse oneself as much and to little, to involve sounds alike. That is a sound which is clearly and supposed to experimentation, investigation and veneration, a sound which can be known, and thus must not be so easily detained. A fourth value of inquiry will suggest a vitality for abundance: A study of time and measure, a 'sight of glorified anthems, and a placement of craftsmanship. Alen has studied, learned and invokes the tribal almost, deniable message of the past. He has promised with some manner of tolerance and stability to covert what eastern martial amiabilities can be incept. Beyond and presently, there is a margin which may or may not place these obstructions or cohesions so pleneshed to tolerance, in the meticulous order. Thus, Alen’s work tells of a tender expression of fate pleasure and a willingness to venture the tool of potential, with or without remorse for denia l''.
Kyle Joseph Patterson, artist and musicologist
http://www.kylejosephpatterson.com/
Find out more about Alen Ilijic at his music and video sites:
www.myspace.com/alenilijic
www.youtube.com/alenilijic
