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Bang on a Can All-Stars: Brian Eno: Music for Airports (Live)
by John Kelman
When the innovative classical ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars released its version of Ambient music forefather Brian Eno's seminal Music for Airports (Virgin/Astralwerks, 1978) on POINT Music in 1998, it demonstrated how a composition seemingly far removed from the classical sphere could be absorbed into the legitimate canon. And although the studio version is already ...
Phillip Glass: 5ths
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Music in Fifths; Two Pages
Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Hsaing Kyaik De Maung; Ka Pya Chi; Sein Chit Tee a Mhat Ta Ya; Seik Kyu Ahla (1); Japan Patsan/Taethit Muhan Gita Than; Improvisation; Kyi Nu Bwe; Seik Kyu Ahla; Sein Ozi
Bang on a Can: Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
by John Kelman
As much as the Kronos Quartet paved the way for modern chamber musicians to broaden their horizons by recording genre-busting albums including Pieces of Africa , Bang on a Can has extended that road by, amongst other things, interpreting ambient works like Brian Eno's Music for Airports. Both groups, one a more conventional chamber quartet, the ...
Bang on a Can: Phillip Glass: 5ths
by John Kelman
When the minimalist movement emerged in the mid-'60s, it was, for some, a refreshing alternative to the atonal arrhythmic music dominating contemporary classical music. With the emergence of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass came a form that relied on comprehensibility and an almost hypnotic engagement, one that seemed custom-fitted for the experimental, but retrospectively ...
