Artist: John Zorn Title Of Album: Redbird Released: Sep 1995 Genre: Musique Concrète, Minimal Label: Tzadik – TZ 7008 Series: Composer Series Format: FLAC Quality: lossess Total Time: 49:53 Total Size: 151 MB Covers Tracklist: 1.Dark River (8:52) Drums [Bass] - Jim Pugliese 2.Redbird (41:01) Cello - Erik Friedlander Harp - Carol Emanuel Percussion - Jim Pugliese Viola - Jill Jaffe Personnel: Composed By, Conductor – John Zorn Carol Emanuel: Harp Erik Friedlander: Cello Jill Jaffe: Viola Jim Pugliese: Bass Drums, Percussion Notes: Recorded at Shelley Palmer Studio, NYC Mastered at Foothill Digital, NYC A kinder and gentler Zorn, exploring a sound world not unlike those pioneered by composers Giacinto Scelsi, Morton Feldman and Olivier Messiaen. Acoustic, minimal/ambient music of unusual subtlety and beauty, inspired by, and dedicated to the work of artist Agnes Martin. "Redbird," a hypnotic work for harp, violin, cello and percussion mirrors the detailed and complex painting for which it is named, as a series of chords are ordered and reordered, creating a play of memory and surprise that will leave the listener in a sensual reverie. It's difficult to believe that "Dark River" for four bass drums is actually acoustic music; the interplay of sonorities reminds one more of tape manipulation or the electronic beating of underwater sonar. /Tzadik/
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