Evgueni Galperine: ’This Town Will Burn Before Dawn’ (teaser) | ECM Records

Evgueni Galperine - “This Town Will Burn Before Dawn“ from the new album “Theory of Becoming“ ECM New Series 2744 Release CD: 21 October 2022 Release Vinyl : 18 November 2022 Available here: The ECM New Series debut of Evgueni Galperine is one of the most strikingly original and evocative albums of the year. A composer of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, living in Paris since 1990, Galperine is working with sound, texture and dynamics in new and powerfully expressive ways. As he explains, the sound world of Theory of Becoming represents an “augmented reality of acoustic instruments, created from recordings made with real and virtual instruments. The numerous transformations the instruments undergo allow me to capture their acoustic nature while also adding techniques and colours impossible to produce in reality...” Galperine’s compositions address wide ranging subjects: from the resilience of hope in the face o