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Christopher Fox

Hieroglyphs

Label: ezz-thetics

Format: CD

Genre: Compositional

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"‘Hieroglyph’ is a word that history has gradually prised away from its linguistic roots as the Greek term for sacred carvings. Over time it came to be associated principally with the enigmatic symbols found in Egyptian burial sites and because these symbols resisted translation for so many centuries the word hieroglyph became a synonym for incomprehensibility. It was the discovery of an artefact – the socalled ‚Rosetta Stone‘, containing both hieroglyphs and parallel texts in other scripts – that in the early 19th century made translation possible: understand one text and the decoding could begin. Perhaps we follow a similar path when we listen to unfamiliar music. But what are the parallel texts: titles, other music that sounds similar, or a text like this?" – Christopher Fox

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Cat. number: ezz-thetics 1030
Year: 2022
Notes:
Recorded 29th August to 2nd September 2021 in the studios of the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv.

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