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After 3 releases on the Navis Classics label (also available from NativeDSD, see bottom of page), cellist Joachim Eijlander returns to NativeDSD Music with Dark Fire, his first album on TRPTK. Dark Fire is said to be “an encounter with the realms of other people’s experience, principally those of musicians. When two energies meet for the first time and are fully open to the experience, a new mirror image of themselves they have never seen before will arise.”

Eijlander says “Philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) described the encounter between the organized philosophical world of the ancient Greek and the mystical, abstruse world of the East as a dark fire. This would have caused the enlightenment in Greek poetry.

It’s unclear what Heidegger really thought about it, but I found the mental image of a dark fire lit by this chance meeting beautiful and highly inspiring. For Heidegger, this was mainly about the East and West.  To me it’s about an encounter with the realms of other people’s experience, principally those of musicians. When two energies meet for the first time and are fully open to the experience, a new mirror image of themselves they have never seen before will arise.”

Joachim Eijlander – Cello
Kadir Sonuk – Duduk
Izhar Elias – Guitar
Helena Basilova – Piano
Vincent van Amsterdam – Accordion