New Perspectives
Track Listings
| 1. Ghost [Non Album Track] |
| 2. Freefall [#] |
| 3. What Do You Do [#] |
| 4. Metropolis [Unknown Quantity Mix] |
| 5. Medusa [Dynamic Syncopation Remix] |
| 6. Fractures [U-Neek Dub] |
| 7. When It Came [Nwachukwu Remix] |
| 8. Lady Sings [D'nell Remix] |
| 9. Perfect Season [Break Reform Remix] |
| 10. Metropolis [Saudade London Bossa Mix] - Break Reform, |
| 11. Mercy [Ol' English Remix] |
| 12. What Do You Do [Kamara Remix] |
| 13. Freefall [Version 2][Mix] |
| 14. Medusa [Unknown Quantity Mix] |
New Perspectives,Break Reform,Abstract Blue Recordings
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New Perspectives
Break Reform Manufacturer: Abstract Blue ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001DMQ3A Release Date: 2005-05-10 |
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Abstract Blue Recordings Presents Break Reform's "New Perspectives", a Collection of Remixes and Unreleased Tracks from this Up-and-coming Outfit. Following the Success of Break Reform's Debut Album, "Fractures", Abstract Blue Presents an Incredibly Varied and Unique Collection of Remixes and Exclusive Tracks from a Group Who's Reputation Continues to Grow, Gaining Recognition from Some of the Most Respected DJ'S and Magazines Promoting New Independent Music. On "New Perspectives" You Will Find Several Recordings Including the Beautiful Single "Ghosts" and the Never Before Heard "Freefall" plus a Few More Surprises. The Remixes Are Provided Courtesy of the Incredible Tony Nwachukwu of Attica Blues, the Sublime D'nell from Abstract Blue/ Furious Styles, the Cosmic Bossa Crew Solar Apple Quarktette and the Beat Scientist Ol' English from Low Budget Soul. Also Included Are the Classic Mixes by Dynamic Syncopation and Unknown Quantity Alongside More Interpretations by Kamara.
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Recollections
Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00022LIBQ Release Date: 2004-05-25 |
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Karel Husa's (b. 1921) pliant style builds on and extends the traditional classical forms, assimilating elements of serialism, microtonality, and aleatoric techniques. Although the composition dates of these four works for wind quintet span three decades, the pieces bear striking similarities. All purposefully set out to stretch the traditional range of wind sonorities, and often leave rhythms and pitches loosely notated. Yet while all four works explore atonality, at root the tonal structure is easy to identify. All four works are emotional and virtuosic, challenging to play and sophisticated enough to reward repeated listenings.The composer notes that, as with many of his works, in Deux Preludes (1966) he set out to explore unorthodox sonorities. The Five Poems (1994) are actually musical characterizations of birds, although Husa avoids imitating bird song directly. "I wrote Five Poems to express my admiration for birds, these wonderful creatures that embellish our lives so magically," he says. "If Messiaen hadn't already directly imitated bird song, I might have. I have done notation of bird songs in the past, which is difficult because they never exactly repeat themselves. And that was the effect I tried for in Five Poemssubtle varieties among the patterns."
The six movements of Recollections (1982) (wind quintet and piano) explore unusual sonorities and demand virtuosic technique. A sheet of paper under the pedal dampers of the low strings prepares the piano in some sections. Of the title, Husa notes that "recollections are vivid, but not exactly precise. The way we remember things is a mix of accuracy and fancy There is so much to memory that it is impossible to describe it all. There are memories that are distant, some that are joyous, tragic, and melancholic. To accomplish all this, I wanted the composition to develop from simple tones and to return to them, all the while researching new combinations and sonorities in the quintet." Serenade (1963), for wind quintet, xylophone, harp, and strings, is a reworking of his Évocations de Slovaquie. It explores Slavic folk music, adding abrupt and irregular rhythms.
Husa's determination to explore new sonorities, to upset rhythmic regularity, and to challenge accepted notions of how wind instruments should interact, combine to create a bold and unmistakably identifiable personal signature.
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Not the best introduction to the music of Karel Husa, but a fine collection of his compositions for Wind Quintet nonetheless.......2007-02-13
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Works for Piano Four-Hands
Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000IX6D Release Date: 1999-05-04 |
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Earle Brown: Music For Pianos 1951- 1995
Earle Brown Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000R46 Release Date: 1996-02-09 |
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Open Forms,Systems/Mobility, Graphics,Timbres.......2002-11-27
It's possible to divide Brown's creativity into three periods, the early, the Fifties, where this disk concentrates,the Sixties which sees the coagulations, concretizations of Brown's theories of open form,mobile form and musical graphics. The impressive String Quartet from this period is a high point, and here we get on this disk Corroboree (1964), for three pianos. David Arden pre-records the other pianos. This is a work which does suggest its marginal programmatic image of the noisy Australian aboriginal festival,with obviouslike rhythms emerging but within the context of the opaque musical moments,musical space is redivided here into beautiful like moments of an entire array of sounds and indeed plumbs the depths of piano timbre, with fascinating muting of strings, finger plucking,hand and forearm clusters,key muting, and harmonics. The work for its antiphonal interest should be heard live, so hear you need to imagine these piano separations emanating from differnent places.
All of the Folio is here largely a work constructed around musical graphics. Within the Cage School, Brown creatively was in the center, not revealing excessive indulgences in musical graphics as Cage himself as in his 'Concert for Piano',which is/was a virtual encyclopedia of what is possible in music performing and graphics,vertical, horizontal, procedures, processes, following circles around, nor was Brown not so much aesthetic bound to his musical objects as Feldman,or Christian Wolff where timbral placements,register, and instrumentation was indeed important than process. Brown's affinity coming from his early studies in engineering and the theories of Jospeh Schillinger informed him very differently than Cage and his interface with Zen thinking,or Feldman's engagements in the painterly world of tone, shape, density,layerings,concept.Brown I think limits himself to the mobiles of Alexander Calder for instance. Improvisation was not an objective here for any memeber of the Cage School.
Most of the creativity here as well resides in the skills of the performer,which does require one to have travelled the oceanic performative seas of improvisation to impart this lifeworld into the cold;y abstract musical graphics and David Arden is an extraordinary interpreter. He is not quite as adventuresome,pushing conceptual envelopes as David Tudor, Arden runs a middle course in his approach to the open-ness of timbre, of placement of gesture, all which resides in the performer in the freedom that musical graphics allows. Here you have as in 4 Systems simply black horizontal bars placed like in perpsective on the page(one page), a page that can be read left to right right to left, or turned upsidedown for a reading also no dynamics or articulations are indicated,registral placement is somewhat suggested,so the performer must decide these elements.
Perspectives from 1952 is completly written,and we see another side to Brown,like giving away creative clues, on the aesthetic interests of the creator, for this work has a violent pointillism that was in the post-war air in the Fifties,it may remind you of a timid Boulez Second Sonata. I beleive through these opaque, indeterminate/determinate musical grpahics we can discern where Earle Brown philosphic aesthetic resides, and I think his music does have an understated quality to it, a gentleness,sparce,thinly threadbare,poetic as can be and evocative at times, even though his aim was not to create a discernable discreet aesthetic object.
The latter Summer Suite from 1995 certainly proclaims this we see a Brown perhaps with the accessibility bug had bit him as everyone,the force fields of postmodernity in place. This is a work far more lyrical within the Brown context, of what represents lyrical moments. In the notes Brown says himself that this work is "jazzy" but I didn't see that, and if it was it would not be interesting jazz.
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Perspectives & Distortion: Cherry Red Rarities 1981
Various Artists Manufacturer: Cherry Red UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00009MKQ0 Release Date: 2003-06-30 |
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Subtitled - Cherry Red Rarities 1981. 2003 reissue of 1981 compilation featuring 17 sought after tracks from Cherry Red regulars like Ben Watt, Five Or Six, & Kevin Coyne along with Matt Johnson, Virgin Prunes, Lol Coxhill, Lemon Kittens, Robert Fripp, & more.Album Details
This Rarities Collection Marks 25 Years of Cherry Red Records and is the Third Released in the Label's "Rarities" Collection. Includes Tracks from Such Cherry Red Reguars as Ben Watt, Five Or Six and Kevin Coyne, Experienced Veterens Such as Lol Coxhill and Recruits from the Post Punk Era that was Just Dawning Such as Lemon Kittens and Two Daughters.Customer Reviews:
Perspectives and Distortions - Cherry Red compilation 1981.......2005-10-27
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In a Mellow Tone Featuring the Robert Locke Quartet
Robert Locke Manufacturer: Robert Locke ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CAA0NU Release Date: 2002-11-05 |
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Arthur Berger: The Complete Orchestral Music
Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000DI4SP Release Date: 2003-10-28 |
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There may come a day when Arthur Berger (b. 1912), with his twin talents as composer and critic, will be regarded as his generation's Robert Schumann, who likewise excelled at both. Their impact on the music and thought of their respective eras is similar. Both composed works of great beauty, while maintaining a keen ear for the musical achievements of othersSchumann instrumental in Brahms' success, Berger championing the work of Ives, Copland and many others.Berger freely acknowledges beginning his mature career as a neo-classicisttaking the lead from Copland and mid-century Stravinskythen shifting his methods to twelve-tone processes in the mid-fifties, influenced by Schoenberg and Webern. But ferreting out supposed mentors proves nothing more than intellectual name-dropping with a composer like Berger, whose own voice is so distinctive. Berger's synthesis of neo-classical and dodecaphonic approaches marks him as the foremost arbitrator between the two camps. Berger's compositional output is small. These five short works, none longer than fifteen minutesIdeas of Order (1952) Perspectives II (1985) Serenade Concertante (1944, rev. 1951), Prelude, Aria and Waltz (1982), and Polyphony (1956)comprise his entire orchestral effort, and several of these pieces are themselves re-workings of previous settings. These compositions span five decades, yet Berger's language has an unmistakable underlying consistency. Two identifiable ingredients characterize these symphonic works: beautiful surface textures juxtaposed with adventurous rhythmic and harmonic experimentation. The former make each work compelling from the first listen; the latter reward careful study and reveal the depth of Berger's craft.
Of related interest:
80308 Arthur BergerFive Pieces for Piano, Septet
80360 Arthur BergerDuo for Cello and Piano, Quartet for Winds, Trio for Guitar, Violin, and Piano, and other works
80536 Arthur BergerComposition for Piano Four-Hands, Perspectives III, Suite for Piano Four-Hands
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Tradition and Renewal in the Music of Japan - Perspectives of New Music
Manufacturer: Perspectives of New Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PCEARM |
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This compact disc was issued to accompany the professional journal Perspectives of New Music, Volume 27 (1989). (Futaiken) Reibo [15:25] Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin, shakuhachi Minezaki Koto: Zangetsu [21:00] Henry Horaku Burnett, sangen and voice; Nanae Yoshimura, koto; Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin, shakuhachi Joji Yuasa: Maibataraki II (1987) [7:12] Michiko Akao, Noh flute Charles Dodge: The Waves [12:44] Joan La Barbara, voice
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Perspectives
Manufacturer: New Dove ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009XZTCM |
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1. 4:18 Alien 2. 3:32 If Ever 3. 4:05 ITZURBUTY 4. 3:37 Town of Peace 5. 3:53 I'm Here 6. 3:56 Sometimes It's Love 7. 3:19 Forever and a Day 8. 4:37 Environmental Hazard 9. 3:35 She 10. 1:15 Just a Little Diddy 11. 4:50 We Needed Lovin'
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Perspectives
Various Artists Manufacturer: Revere Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000047ZGS Release Date: 1999-12-29 |
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This delightful collection of performances from artists Anthony Arizaga, Bronn Journey, Emile Pandolfi, and Mike Strickland is a kaleidoscope of romance, nostalgia, and fun. Anthony's passionate, latin-flavored performances on guitar, Bronn's sweet, gentle touch on the harp, Emile's touching romantic, piano masterpieces, and Mike's whimsical, jazz flavored piano and ensemble gems present the listener with a snapshot of the performances that have made these artists bestsellers across the country. Give yourself a treat and enjoy these unique Perspectives! BAND_MEMBERS: Emile Pandolfi, Bronn Journey, Mike Strickland, Anthony Arizaga.Music:
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