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The Victoriaville Tape [Live]
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| 4. Farewell |
The Victoriaville Tape,Peter Kowald,William Parker,Victo,Free Improvisation,Jazz,Modern Free,Pop
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The Story
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ASIN: B000NDIAWY Release Date: 2007-04-03 |
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The Brandi Carlile story so far is fairly short: fresh-faced singer-song writer from rural Ravensdale, Washington, quietly releases a 2005 debut that has critics and fans reaching for their thesauruses searching for appropriate adjectives to describe her voice. Patsy Cline, Jeff Buckley, kd lang, Beth Orton, Linda Ronstadt, and Aimee Mann get name-checked as Carlile and her guitar-and-bass-playing Hanseroth twins-led band criss-cross the country for two years, first as openers, then as headliners. Cue the overproduced, disappointing follow-up album? Not so fast. On The Story, Carlile teams up with veteran roots producer T Bone Burnett, who brings in vintage equipment and strips down her sound. Instead of using overdubs, the new songs--most of which were already road-tested--are recorded live, giving the ballads and midtempo rockers a tough, uncompromising edge and a fuller, more aggressive attack. Echoes of country and folk color the bucolic "Have You Ever" and the unadorned acoustic "Cannonball," but it's the sweeping drama of the more epic-sounding "Until I Die," "Late Morning Lullaby," and the U2-styled "My Song" that leave the greatest lasting impressions. Carlile and Burnett make a perfect team: he allows her malleable voice room to soar in the mix while she brings sharp original songs that exude confidence, pride, and emotion. It's a combustive combination and one that results in a sophomore release every bit as good, and in many respects better, than her first. Stay tuned as the story continues. --Hal HorowitzBrandi Pics
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Brandi Carlile has a rare voice, consistently spilling over with honesty, purity, and passion. Her dynamic and tonal range is truly exceptional and on par with the likes of k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, and Patsy Cline--at times soft, swooping, and clear as a bell ("Turpentine," "Josephine," "Cannonball"), and then ferocious to the point of breaking ("The Story," "My Song"). A voice like Carlile's when paired with the right material is a winning combination, and The Story's country-meets-Radiohead ballads and rockers do not disappoint. While the songs on are not as consistently stellar as those on her self-titled debut album, they are more often than not solid, and show off her talents and confidence as both an artist and performer, which have fully bloomed since her debut. This, coupled with T Bone Burnett's light, live production style, creates an album that is ultimately more rewarding than her first. The high points on The Story have raised the bar considerably for Carlile, and they are frequent. Her choice to record the album in a live setting inside the studio lends it a raw intimacy and authenticity noticeably absent from most studio recordings, and leaves us with not only an album, but a work of art. Carlile is a career artist still defining her sound, but her maturity as a vocalist cannot be questioned--this is an immensely talented singer laying herself bare before us, and one of the strongest releases of 2007. --Alan WileyCustomer Reviews:
Powerful, evocative stories of life lived.......2007-07-07
I waited 3 months to write my review..........2007-07-06
Best of 2007.......2007-07-05
Consistent with the first album, maintained her originality .......2007-06-27
great cd.......2007-06-27
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Shakespeare's Songbook, Vols. 1 & 2
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ASIN: B0002IQL08 Release Date: 2004-07-06 |
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Dark Waters
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ASIN: B00005J72Q Release Date: 2001-06-26 |
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The English horn is amplified and processed through several digital delay devices and mixed live with the tape part. The tape part was createed using raw material garnered from sampling fragments of an old 78 rpm recording from the twenties of "The Swan of Tuonela" by Sibelius. The 'low fi' sound and even the surface noise of the old acetate record, clearly heard at the very beginning of the piece, are essential to the dark qualities I tried to produce in this music.HOLY GHOSTS oboe d'amore with live digital delay processing
After the satisfying experience of working with Libby Van Cleve on Dark Waters, we both decided another collaborative venture was in store for us. Although I am fond of the oboe itself, my preference for the lower range and darker timbres of its tenor and alto cousins led me to turn to the Oboe d'Amore, an instrument frequently found in Baroque music but rare in the modern repertoire. One of the most famous uses of the Oboe d'Amore in the Bach canon is found in the B Minor Mass, in the Basso aria 'Et in Spiritum Sanctum' - part of the Credo. There two Oboes d'Amore interweave lines with the singer which suggest not so much a rarefied holy spirit but a dancing one; the music has grace, flow and sprightliness. I have taken some snatches of melody from these parts and recreated my own take on the Holy Ghost. As the oboist plays the Bach fragments, digital delay processors echo them back and create spiraling rich textures which build up to create "ghosts" of the original material.
RAVE was created for the choreographer Paula Josa-Jones who commissioned it for her solo dance work Raving in Wind. The imagery in the work was primarliy avaian which led me to explore the use of bird calls - especially those of ravens and loons. The latter create haunting, plaintive cries, heard over northern lakes at night, as well as a kind of pealing laughter! The ravens have a most diverse vocabulary and are capable of an unusually complex array of sounds; I created a kind of gamelan with the few I sampled. In the middle section of the piece, the bird sounds give way to samples of southeast Asian instruments which share with the bird calls an elemental, primal sound; they too seem to emerge from the natural world. In the final section, all the sounds come together.
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Dark Waters is Beautiful...........2003-07-24
The stunner on the disc is Dark Waters. Written for Libby Van Cleve, the performer on this CD, it is essentially a concerto for English Horn and recomposed and subtly processed strings. At first, Marshall's source material is evident.... you can recognize the phrases from the Sibelius work, sounding like it is coming from an old 78 gramophone speaker. But as the work progresses, the original material becomes lost in a beautiful and dense reworking, one that builds a new composition based on Sibelius' beautifully voiced chords, and adds layers of other sounds from the source recording to create a dark and alluring background. Over top of this, the live English horn and the pre recorded one exchange duet material and new phrases that are mournful and ominous. The work is a beautiful 17-minute tone poem and more haunting on each rehearing.
I wish the same could be said for Holy Ghost, the second work on the disc. This is based on live and prerecorded music on the oboe, and resembles nothing so much as Steve Reich's early tape-loop pieces, but without the sense of discovery behind the Reich works. Luckily, this work is short enough not to seriously outstay it's welcome.
The final piece on the disc, Rave, is scored for oboe, oboe d'amour and a tape based on the calls of ravens and loons. This is a more effective piece, even if it doesn't reach the depths of Dark Waters. At times the source material is fairly self-evident, but at other times you loose it in a glorious wash of sound with the reed instrument sailing above.
Marshall's music is fascinating on this disc...tonal, but adventurous. He has obviously been influenced by minimalism, but his take on the style is refreshingly free of bare repetition. Dark Waters is highly recommended, but Rave is also a well-done piece. Overall, a good modern CD by an interesting composer.
Ingram Marshall does it again..........2001-07-13
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Luigi Nono: Choral Works
Manufacturer: Hanssler Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nono
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ASIN: B00005O7ST Release Date: 2001-08-28 |
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Few composers have exercised as vigorous a political conscience as did the late Luigi Nono. Beginning his career as a dedicated 12-tone composer (and Schoenberg's son-in-law), Nono consciously sought to revolutionize both music and society in his large output. Significantly, many of Nono's compositions were highly expressive and individualistic settings of texts from authors as diverse as Nietzsche and Latino Labor Leader, Caesar Chavez, to the anonymous inscriptions of political prisoners. The miracle of Nono's music is the tremendous beauty and intensity he was able to forge using such disparate material. The compositions on this disc, masterfully performed by Rupert Huber and the Vokalensemble Stuttgart, are definitive readings of some of the most difficult choral music EVER composed. And yet, despite all the avant garde techniques, the sonic impact of these scores has the otherworldly beauty of Gregorian chant. Make no mistake; this is an essential recording o! f music by one of the 20th century's greatest composers!Customer Reviews:
Great performances of important choral music.......2003-11-25
Cori di Didone continues from where the last movement of his first masterpiece, Il Canto sospeso, left off. Complex yet clear choral writing--often containing open fourths and fifths, a precursor of his late work--floats over sometimes-aggressive percussion work. This is a touching miniature, though not amongst Nono's most important works.
Rather more musically cluttered is Da un diario italiano. The composer evidently was never truly satisfied with this work, as he returned to it several times without ever producing a definitive score, and indeed this is the first recording of the work. Its complex vocal counterpoint--and explicit political content--point towards a the style that created the masterpieces of the 1970s, Como una ola de fuerza y luz and Al gran carico sole d'amore. However, the later works are more finished, less congested, the style more refined and effective.
I have no such complaints about the final work, Das atmende Klarsein. A set of calls and responses for small choir against electronically-modified bass flute, this predominantly peaceful work glows with the radiant sounds of open fifths and fourths. Some of the choral writing, in particular, is astonishingly beautiful, the style very much pointing towards the opera Prometeo--but in a much more concise 37 minutes as opposed to 137 for the opera.
The performances here are outstanding, under the direction of the experienced German conductor Rupert Huber. The coordination in the difficult Da un diario italiano is phenomenal, yet the luminous sound of Das atmende Klarsein is just as impressive. However, there is a rival Das atmende Klarsein on the market, a live performance also directed by Huber. Its coupling is somewhat weightier, the piano-and-tape piece ...sofferte onde serene..... and the percussion and electronics sextet Con Luigi Dallapiccola. I have not heard the rival recording, so cannot compare performances, but I believe that nobody buying the present disc will be disappointed.
Not very serious........2002-12-04
Groundbreaking Choral Work.......2002-08-29
The first work on the disc is for choir and percussion. The music takes it's direction from Nono's seminal work, Il Canto Sospeso. The voices are treated as almost solo instruments, and the words of the text are treated serially along with other elements of the music. The result is a stunning wash of sound that can sound like a precusor to Ligeti's Requiem of 5 years later. The text is unusual for Nono at this time. It focuses on romantic love rather than his more typical political material, but the style clearly leads in the direction of his first great theater piece, Intollerenza.
Nono's musical styles actually can be said to be summed up by his big theater works. The second choral work on this disc actually began as a study for a theater piece that never was developed, but you can hear in Da un Diario Italiano the spectacular vocal writing that would make Al gran sole carico d'amore such a shattering theatrical experience ten years later. The Diario is scored for 72 solo vocalists, but, unlike Penderecki's massed sounds, this work requires extreme precision in each of the parts, making it nearly impossible to find a performance. As such the work languished for years until this recording. And this performance reveals what a stunning piece this is. Based on collected texts from common Italians reacting to floods and uprisings, the piece has the deep humanism and love for people that characterized Nono's music in this period.
The final work on the CD, Das Atmende Klarsein is one of Nono's first and finest works in his late style, and contains seeds that would flourish in the theatrical work Prometeo. This piece is post-serialist...neither tonal nor atonal. Nono is interesting in sonority here, specifically the sound of fifths. The work is basically monodic, with thickening of textures occuring at points in the choral writing. We are worlds away from the density of Diario here. The sole accompaniment to the choir is a bass flute which is processed with live electronics. The flute is relegated to interludes which comment on the previous section and provide contrast. The overall feeling of this work is contemplative...almost otherworldly. I don't know quite what was driving Nono personally duringthis period, but the break in style is so profound, it is almost as if he has become another composer...just as moving as the earlier work, but altogether different.
Performances are superb, particularly in the Diario, which I imagine may be one of the most difficult choral works ever composed (and don't let anyone fool you....if someone sang wrong notes, it would be noticable in this music! That's an old slander against the avant-garde that is simply not true.) This is a highly recommended disc, one that I will come back too often.
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Luciano Berio: Laborintus 2
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ASIN: B00004TVH4 Release Date: 2000-11-14 |
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Occasionally entertaing, but much more dated than his other works.......2006-09-06
Insane, wonderful, marvellously inventive.......2003-04-29
This piece specialises in some amazing vocal effects that have to do with the extension of vibration and note into time, like arrows flying through the air. There are instruments that actually finish a note that a singer STARTS, and then transforms it into a complex phrase, thus morphing and shape shifting the original utterance in a most amazing way.
The piece is lots of things - a ceremony - and a sequence of chants, piercing, beautiful moments of clear sound, curious tangles of notes from the harps, and (on this recording) the patient voice of Eduardo Sanguinetti. He sounds very old, and his very distinctive voice lends a unique and strange texture to a piece that is dominated by vocal brilliance by three members of the Swingle Singers (if you didn't recognize the names).
I have a copy of the score of Laborintus II, and while this performance is unmatched by any live performance I have ever seen to date, it is NOT the same exactly as the printed score.
Here you can actually hear the musicians break off at the end of the first section puzzlingly speaking to each other in French, and laughing "oh..je suis tres termine!", and this is most definitely not scored.
The beginning of the second piece according to the score should have the ensemble playing some extended jazz improvisations, Sanguinetti pronouncing some Dantesque poetry, the three singers and chorus doing equaly fascinating things, but the recording contains some quite different ideas, all of which work, and are ahout as insane and engaging as anything Mr Berio has ever invented. The piece seems to be something like one of the happenings that the Grateful Dead were involved in, and for all we know, perhaps everyone was so mellowed out that that is essentially what has been captured here.
I've seen the piece performed twice. In both cases it was different, so in no way do I have a real handle on what the true, or platonic ideal really should be.
It's also very challenging working out from the score how the various parts key together, but just listening this is a treat.
I first encountered this in Hatfield in a student dive where there was some marvellous blue smoke and squashy furniture and some buffs from teh science fiction society, who thought that it was completely crazy, and we all did, and I'm happy I met it that way. Any of you guys out there, please get back in touch!
Berio CD is a Find.......2002-08-16
a worthy companion to "Sinfonia".......2001-04-21
By the way, if you're into avant-garde rock at all, you /definitely/ owe it to yourself to get this CD. This piece is essentially the classical equivalent of Legendary Pink Dots' "So Gallantly Screaming" from _Asylum_.
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Naito: Strings & Time
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ASIN: B000005TZB Release Date: 1997-11-18 |
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A Composer to Follow.......2000-10-12
I find all of these pieces to be very strong. My favorite is Winter Shadow, for two guitars, with William Anderson and Oren Fader. In this work there are two movements. The first has rich harmonies and achieves a real sense of multidimensionality. The second movement is free structually, with spectacular bottle-neck slide playing, pizzicato, and rasqueado techniques.
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From The Kitchen, Archives No. 2: Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977
Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Reich, Steve
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ASIN: B0007VBO4S Release Date: 2005-05-10 |
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The Kitchen, an interdisciplinary organization known for its commitment to experimental work has an archive of audio and video recordings that cover its three decade existence. Orange Mountain Music in collaboration with The Kitchens curators have found several wonderful recordings and among them are these made by Steve Reich & Musicians, Live 1977.
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Morton Feldman: Three Voices
Manufacturer: L'empreinte Digitale ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Feldman
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Morton Feldman: Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
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ASIN: B000000R2G Release Date: 1994-04-05 |
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Here is one of the great contemporary masterpieces for voice. Three Voices was composed for Joan La Barbara, a singer and performer of avant-garde music in the tradition of Cathy Berberian or Jan DeGaetani. In live performance, the singer stands next to two loudspeakers that play two prerecorded tapes of her voice, to which she synchronizes herself. At the center of the work is a setting of the poem Wind by Frank O'Hara. The various vocal patterns on either side of the poem were inspired, as in all Feldman's late music, by the patterns on Oriental carpets, and you actually can hear the slow modification of shape and form as the music proceeds. It's a remarkable work, and La Barbara's performance is definitive. --David HurwitzCustomer Reviews:
Don't Start Here with Feldman.......2002-07-31
Written for Joan La Barbara, the work is scored for one singer and two taped singers and sets a fragment of a poem by Frank O'Hara. Feldman plays with sound for almost twenty minutes into the piece before you start to hear the words. The effect is often like some of Steve Reich's early tape pieces, except with less driving motion. When the words come in, the effect is stunning.
My reason for concern is that many people will assume, based on this piece, that Feldman is a minimalist. He is, but not in a stereotypical way. His music is fascinating and minimal, but not in the tonal, repetitive way of Reich or Glass. Rather, he is minimalist, as later Cage is minimalist, but with much more concern for sonic beauty than Cage shows.
So yes, get this CD. But also get Rothko Chapel or For Phillip Gunston. Without this music, you just scratch the surface of this fascinating modern composer.
Lost in a Blizzard.......2001-11-08
Feldman only set a small excerpt of the poem, focusing on the single image of falling snow, rather than setting the later parts of the text, which drift off into topics of evil, childhood, and other more weighty topics. By keeping to this single image, he expands the field of perception almost to the limits.
The only reason i'm giving this only 4 stars has nothing to do with the quality of the performance. La Barbara is a definitive performer of this piece, after all. But in the originial version, it's much slower, and the piece consequently takes almost 1-1/2 hours. La Barbara initially refused to perform it at that tempo, arguing (rightly so) that it would be virtually impossible to sing even ONE line for 90 minutes, let alone three. She DID eventually work up to it, and gave a performance at the original tempo once or twice in New York. Every effect of meditativeness and suddenness in the 40-minute version is even more intense when the piece is almost twice as long, and for that reason i wish the publishers would release a version at the original length. Perhaps with DVD technology it would even be possible to put it on a single disc, since having to stop midway to change CDs would of course disrupt the experience. But i hope that someday technical limitations of performer and medium might be surmounted, and we might hear this fascinating piece as it was intended.
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The Swedish Recorder
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