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Hiddensee by Selke, Sebastian / Ceeys (CD, 2019)

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Artist: Selke,Sebastian / Ceeys. Title: Hiddensee. Format: CD.

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelNeue Meister, Neum

UPC0885470011509

eBay Product ID (ePID)21046061913

Product Key Features

Release Year2019

FormatCD

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistSelke, Sebastian / Ceeys

Release TitleHiddensee

Dimensions

Item Height0.26 in

Item Weight0.13 lb

Item Length5.60 in

Item Width4.94 in

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Number of Discs1

NotesBrothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke's music can be likened to an exercise of memory retrieval. All of their four albums explore and pay tribute to their past; growing up in East Berlin in the final decade of the GDR. At it's core, the duo's music can be heard as a dialogue between siblings about their shared upbringings and experiences, a conversation given form through Sebastian's cello and Daniel's piano keys, in the fusion that becomes CEEYS. In 2017, the duo also founded Q3 AMBIENTFEST, a three-day happening for neoclassical and experimental music, which seeks to explore the cultural and musical impact of East German heritage. But the memories rescued through their music are far from only historical, they are foremost emotional recollections. Their 2018 album, WÆNDE was as much about the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and it's implications in society, as it was about the thin walls that separated the brothers at home, and through which they heard each other practicing their instruments when young. The same can be said of their latest album HIDDENSEE, which speaks both of a physical place - the picturesque East German island in the Baltic Sea - as well as a place and time of spiritual importance for the brothers. As East Germany opened itself in the 90s, the two brothers would find themselves traveling out of their homeplace to the rest of the world, and while grateful for their newfound freedoms, they would also come to miss their childhood Eden. The duality of east and west, novelty and familiarness, is also thoroughly explored through CEEYS' musical style, which merges influences from the luminaries of classical music such as Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the lesser known artists of East Germany and the contemporary musicians Sebastian and Daniel were exposed after the fall of the wall.