New Releases From hatOLOGY

hat(now)ART 147: BLOCK BEUYS
RICHARD RIJNVOS (1964)
Total time 77:30, DDD, Barcode: 752156014720.
Ives Ensemble, Amsterdam
In 1990 Richard Rijnvos was invited to the German city of Darmstadt to be a guest composer at the new music summer courses held there every two years. During a free moment he escaped from the courses and discovered one of Darmstadt's greatest treasures, the installation in the Hessisches Landesmuseum known as the 'Block Beuys'. This collection of work by the German visual artist Joseph Beuys (1921-86) consists of about 270 objects arranged in seven rooms of varying sizes, and contains most of the forms and materials which Beuys habitually used - metal, felt, accretions of fat and food, machinery, newspaper. Rijnvos's Block Beuys, begun five years after his Darmstadt encounter, is his response to the collection.

hat(now)ART 150: MATERIAL
CORNELIUS CARDEW (1936-1981)
Total time 56:35, DDD, Barcode: 752156015022.
Jim Baker, Carrie Biolo, Jeb Bishop, Michael Cameron, Guillermo Gregorio, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Lou Mallozi, Jeff Parker, Jen Paulson, Warren Po, Amy Williams, Art Lange.
Among the things I find especially attractive - sometimes frustrating, but seductive and rewarding - about Cardew's works in this period is the fact that these scores are gleefully experimental. (They) are purposely confusing, sometimes contradictory, and open to interpretation to the point where the performers must make many compositional choices on their own, sometimes gently guided by the composer, other times not. - Art Lange

Available on May 15th, 2004

hatOLOGY 605: AS IT GROWS
RUSS LOSSING TRIO
Russ Lossing, piano
Ed Schuller, double bass
Paul Motian, drums
Total time 51:19, DDD.
Silence, it has been said, is more eloquent than speech. Russ Lossing's music, in this trio setting, grows out of silence -the space between thought and gesture- and explores its poetic ambiguities, elaborates upon its implied moods, energizes its hidden tensions. -Art Lange

hatOLOGY 609: FLAMINGOS
MAX NAGL, OTTO LECHNER & BRADLEY JONES
Max Nagl, alto, baritone & soprano saxophone
Otto Lechner, accordion & piano
Bradley Jones, double bass
Total time 47:59, DDD.
When music is so perfume-soaked, marked with such imagery, haunted by history, and pierced through and through with trembling and chills, it lays bare its own humility. And in doing so, enchants us. This is none other than a reflection of our own humanity. A reflection that, at the hand of these gifted musicians, becomes a little more desperate, and at the same time, a little more beautiful too. -Alex Dutilh, chief editor of “Jazzman"

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