She Describes Infinity

She Describes Infinity Artist: Scott Cossu
Label: Windham Hill Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 019341106326
EAN: 0019341106326
ASIN: B000000NGV


Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

  1. Bajun Carnival
  2. Angel Steps
  3. The Triumph
  4. Red Silk
  5. Rice Paper
  6. Arctic Hymn
  7. Releve
  8. Napali Anthem
  9. Christo's Theme
  10. Visual Promise
  11. She Describes Infinity

Similar Items:

  1. Switchback
  2. When Spirits Fly
  3. Islands
  4. Retrospective

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hard To Label, Easy to Listen To.......2004-12-13

More than once I've struggled with the difficulty of clearly differentiating when a musician's work is jazz, and when it is true New Age. Outside of the obvious cases of things like meditation music, where most often there are no hard edges at all, the definition is highly subjective. If 'She Describes Infinity' is New Age, it is at the other end of the spectrum entirely.

The more I listen to Scott Cossu's powerful (almost muscular) approach, the more I hear the jazz work behind its easy-to-listen-to exterior. It's in the tension of the music and in the harmonic interplay of the parts. He rarely repeats himself and his playing is complex, always exploring the capability of his instrument. If this is New Age, it is only so coincidentally.

Cossu's style is his own, but he is closest to Jordan Rudess, another keyboard player who is hard to define. As pieces like Bajun Carnival and Red Silk quickly demonstrate, Cossu carefully builds layers of improvisation that can take the listener to unexpected places. Highly rhythmic, with melody lines that rarely rest. The real exception to this is Arctic Hymn, which opens with a striding, chordal melody with only a few moments of variation, preserving a sacred space.

This is arguably the best Scott Cossu album - others that I like are Switchback and Wind Dance. The cuts are either solo piano or simple ensemble - piano and bass or piano and guitar. It's the kind of music that never seems dated or out of place.

Music CD:

  1. Torched ~ Michael Hedges
  2. Silent Joy ~ Anugama
  3. Convergence ~ David Lanz, David Arkenstone
  4. An American Composer in Concert
  5. Rasa in Concert ~ Rasa
  6. Future Primitive ~ EKO
  7. Intermezzo ~ The Modern Mandolin Quartet
  8. Relax with...Refreshing Cascades ~ Various Artists
  9. Return to the Grand Canyon ~ Nicholas Gunn
  10. The Other Shore ~ John Adorney

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Cole Cole a Ritmo De Palo De Mayo ~ Dimension Costena

Cuando Seas Grande ~ Mambazo

She Describes Infinity ~ Scott Cossu

Music for Love: The Album ~ Various Artists

Complicated ~ Avril Lavigne

Live! ~ Jackie Wilson

Mas 30 Albums de Coleccion ~ Grupo Bryndis

Entre Cuates ~ Luis Y Juli%C3%A1n

Enganchados de M.A.S. ~ Various Artists

Exitos '97 ~ Playero