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A Book of Luminous Things

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Recorded
  
March–April 2011

Language
  
English

Artist
  
Aga Zaryan

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Length
  
50:49

A Book of Luminous Things (2011)
  

Release date
  
14 June 2011

Genre
  
Jazz

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Released
  
June 14, 2011 (2011-06-14)

Studio
  
Castle Oaks Studios, Calabasas

Jazz albums
  
Sleeper, Whisper Not, Mostly Coltrane, Alasnoaxis, These Are the Vistas

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A Book of Luminous Things is the fifth studio album by the Polish jazz singer Aga Zaryan. It was released on June 14, 2011 by EMI Music Poland and Blue Note Records.

Contents

The album contains twelve compositions to the poems of Czesław Miłosz and his favourite poets: Anna Świrszczyńska, Jane Hirshfield and Denise Levertov. In October, 2011 EMI Music Poland published another version of the album, called Księga olśnień (which is the Polish translation of A Book of Luminous Things) with the same songs being performed in Polish. Apart from the language, the only difference between the two versions is in the song This Only (Polish: To jedno), which in the English version is performed by Aga Zaryan as sole vocalist, while in the Polish version she was joined by Grzegorz Turnau.

Recorded at Castle Oaks Studios in Calabasas, California in spring 2011.

Personnel

  • Aga Zaryan – vocals
  • Michał Tokaj – piano
  • Larry Koonse – guitar
  • Darek Oleszkiewicz – double bass
  • Munyungo Jackson – percussion
  • Songs

    1Music Like Water5:11
    2Like a He-Bear and She-Bear/ Falling Asleep/ Sleepy Eyelashes4:39
    3This Only3:44

    References

    A Book of Luminous Things Wikipedia