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Album Review

The Naked Future: Gigantomachia

Read "Gigantomachia" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
May 29, 2009

Arrington de Dionyso (bass clarinet, contralto clarinet) transfuses a relentless energy into his music. He is a restless character driven to manipulate sound and seek new dimensions. He wails and he squeals and he soars high into the atmosphere, but he also gets down to the plain, exposing his ability to mark a linear trajectory. Even there, however, he is not free of his idiosyncrasies. He squeezes notes out of the clarinet that he abets with flutters. All of it ...

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Album Review

The Naked Future: Gigantomachia

Read "Gigantomachia" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 4, 2009

There has always been a raw, sinewy character to music performed wherever and whenever Arrington de Dionyso shows up to play his deep, woodsy clarinets. The epic narratives on Gigantomachia, interpreted by de Dionyso's latest ensemble, The Naked Future, provide no exception. If anything, the music is enveloped in an energetic tension from start to finish, enabled largely by the interplay between de Dionyso's woodwinds Gregg Skloff's bass--played arco con brio--virtually end-to-end on every song. Even the higher frequency of ...