Results for "Meredith Monk"

John Zorn: Dictee / Liber Novus

by Warren Allen
January 14, 2011

John ZornDictée / Liber NovusTzadik2010 If the ever-productive multi-instrumentalist John Zorn's compositional oeuvre yields one simple theme, it is the sheer variety of his interests and vision. Perhaps none of his personal oeuvres better encapsulate this than his file card compositions. These are usually extended pieces that consist ...

Hocket

Featuring the music of Meredith Monk
Duration: 4:45
November 20, 2010

Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell In Possibility

by C. Michael Bailey
August 20, 2010

Were Theo Bleckmann Irish he would be a leprechaun, a magical bringer of joy and beauty with creativity and a sense of humor. Probably a more apt cultural consideration is viewing this vocalist/performance artist as the embodiment of all that was good, demiurgic, evocative, and provocative of Berlin during the explosively creative Weimar Republic period. Bleckmann ...

Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell In Possibility

by Warren Allen
August 16, 2010

Theo BleckmannI Dwell In PossibilityWinter & Winter2010 To record I Dwell in Possibility, vocalist Theo Bleckmann made a musical pilgrimage to the Beinwil Abbey in an isolated area of Switzerland. With the aid of producer Stefan Winter, he proceeded to lay down 15 tracks, only using his ...

Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell In Possibility

by Dan Bilawsky
August 10, 2010

The title of this record also defines vocalist Theo Bleckmann's artistic philosophy. Bleckmann is probably the only human being to ever properly interpret the music of Kate Bush and the compositions of Charles Ives, and his range as an artist doesn't stop there. Bleckmann's Winter & Winter albums, along with successful side projects, have earned him ...

Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the '60s

by Robert Levin
August 8, 2010

The following is a chapter from the book “Going Outside: Fiction * Commentary * Jazz." robert-levin.com. [Editor's note: Revised and expanded here, this piece originated as an oral essay for an installment of the Cosmoetica Omniversica internet radio series on the arts and sciences. The series was hosted by Dan Schneider and Art Durkee.] ...

Clogs: The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

by John Kelman
March 18, 2010

With the digital-only EP, Veil Waltz (Brassland, 2010), neoclassicist quartet Clogs announced that it was back in action after a lengthy hiatus. But that brief collection, largely written for film, was really only a taste-whetter for The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton, Clogs' first full-length CD since Lantern (Brassland, 2006). Like Veil Waltz, Lantern ...

Impermanence

By Meredith Monk

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Last Song; 02. Maybe 1; 03. Little Breath; 04. Liminal; 05. Disequilibrium; 06. Particular Dance; 07. Between Song; 08. Passage; 09. Maybe 2.; 10. Skeleton Lines; 11. Slow Dissolve; 12. Totentanz; 13. p 1; 14. Rocking; 15. Sweep 2; 16. Mieke’s Melody.

Meredith Monk: Impermanence

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 1, 2009

Si fa prima a rivelare cosa non è stata Meredith Monk nel corso della sua lunga carriera. Fuor di dubbio che dagli anni Sessanta i suoi lavori continuano ad incantare per la vivacità e l'eleganza che hanno. Le composizioni della Monk (da lei scritte e quasi sempre interpretate) nascono tutte, più o meno di proposito, dall'"intersezione" ...

Mikkel Ploug / Sissel Vera Pettersen / Joachim Badenhorst: Equilibrium

by Wilbur MacKenzie
November 16, 2009

Equilibrium is three-way partnership between Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, Belgian saxophonist and clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst and Norwegian vocalist and saxophonist Sissel Vera Pettersen. The trio's charming and ruminative mixture borrows elements of contemporary chamber music, jazz and various indigenous vocal traditions ranging from Inuit throat singing to West African griots and incorporates a variety of extended ...