Pasif.Ist

TOP 20 in the NZ album charts

Available to DOWNLOAD or as a PRINT-ON-DEMAND CD

Natalia Mann makes her Rattle debut with Pasif.Ist, her first album under her own name. The album is about migration, the metropolis, and the sacred spaces of culture and time. Natalia describes her music as ‘environmental’, music that comes from (and resonates in harmony with) the environment in which it was made. The compositions were written in response to living and working as a musician in Istanbul (Turkey) for the last six or seven years, personal experiences that have been filtered through her unique artistic perspective.

Featuring:
Natalia Mann (harp)
Izzet Kizil (drums, percission)
Sercan Halili (classic kemençe, alto kemençe)
Abdullah Shakar (electric basses)
Dine Doneff (acoustic bass)

Special guests:
Richard Nunns (taonga puoro on Greenstones)
Lucien Johnson (saxophones on Üç Adim)
Riki Gooch (percussion on Gul Cayi, Sunshine Sister, Üç Adim)
Serdar Pazarcıoglu (violin on Butterfly Effect)
Deniz Gungur (aqua on Butterfly Effect)
Naomi Jean O’Sullivan (co-writer, gongs on Time)

All compositions by Natalia Mann © 2011, except Sunshine Sister & Üç Adim (Mann/Kizil), 4.55 air (Mann/Doneff/Kizil), and Time (Mann/O'Sullivan)

Recorded by Oguz Sehiraltı at S.e.s. Studio, Istanbul,
and Ergin Özler, Gunsel Isık Yılmaz, and Deney Evi Studio, Istanbul

Additional recording by
Riki Gooch (Wellington); Bob Bickerton (Nelson, New Zealand); Deniz Gungor (Istanbul); and Ömer Sabırsız (Turkey)

Mixed by Smadj at Babajim Istanbul Studios, assisted by Berk Teker, Zeynep Tunay, and Gunsel Isık Yılmaz

Mastered by Pieter Snapper at Babajim Istanbul Mastering
Cover Photography by Fotini Potamia
Design by UnkleFranc