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It Is Written

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Prelude; Labile (Unfolding); Rainbow Sign; Apparition/Projectiles; Song of the Signs; Petroglyph Extension; Shotgun Bouquet; It Is Written; Titiwa.

Album

It Is Written

By Peter Apfelbaum & The New York Hieroglyphics

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Prelude; Labile (Unfolding); Rainbow Sign; Apparition/Projectiles; Song of the Signs; Petroglyph Extension; Shotgun Bouquet; It Is Written; Titiwa.

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Peter Apfelbaum: It Is Written

Read "It Is Written" reviewed by Michael McCaw

by Michael McCaw
November 22, 2005

Peter Apfelbaum writes music for everyone. And without pandering to anyone, he creates honest music that has wide appeal in some aspects but ultimately serves a smaller audience, simply because he fuses so many disparate elements together. Recorded over three days in September in 2004, It Is Written is an album of breadth, to say the ...

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Peter Apfelbaum & The New York Hieroglyphics: It Is Written

Read "It Is Written" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez
November 5, 2005

Composer and woodwind/keyboard/percussion multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum advocates “music without borders and says he writes from “a drummer's perspective. Familiar soundposts are absent and It Is Written, the latest recording of his Hieroglyphics band, requiring a shift in the listener's preconceptions of big band possibilities. For instance, “Prelude is a brief, dirge-like opening in ...

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Peter Apfelbaum & The New York Hieroglyphics: It Is Written

Read "It Is Written" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
August 30, 2005

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Peter Apfelbaum's It Is Written is his first recording with the East Coast version of his large Hieroglyphics ensemble. There's no denying the deep musicianship of the leader and his band, but what's most striking here is Apfelbaum's genre-mashing ambition as he blends jazz with a host of world music influences to form ...