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Sunday, July 24, 2005
Kinga Prada, Kingám: New Swedish Flute Music
Kingám: New Swedish Flute Music
Kinga Prada,
Nosag Records

Kingám is a CD deserving of suspicion. At first glance you’d never know, but dig into the liner notes and things get fishy. For starters, despite the CD’s broad subtitle, well over half the music is composed by Stellan Sagvik. A little further reading reveals that Sagvik is in fact Kinga Prada’s husband. Check the website for the label while the alarm bells are sounding and you’ll see that Sagvik is also the owner of the label, Nosag records. Ready to feed it to the garbage can now?

Fortunately, Kingám is not the vanity project that it appears to be. The abundance of Sagvik’s compositions does weigh down the CD a little, but his writing is solid and relatively diverse. More importantly though, Prada is an excellent performer. Her playing is fluid and precise. She also possesses a unique, sharp tone that serves her particularly well on this CD as she’s almost constantly being accompanied by percussion.

Despite the ubiquity of percussion, the best piece on the disc pairs the flute with the marimba. This piece, Martin Larson’s “Boughs” gives Prada some lyrical lines to float on top of dense, dark textures from the marimba. The music builds nicely as the melody explores the harmonic environment. The other highlight of the CD is Sagvik’s “Solar Plexus” on which we finally get to hear Prada alone. The piece, composed of 11 episodes each with a planetary theme, falls flat at points, but serves Prada well. The rest of the CD is worth a listen, but tends to blend together. Pick it up if you need some flute in your life.
posted by Lanier Sammons 7:50 PM


 


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