Results for "Philip Gelb"

Philip Gelb

Smoking Balance: The Complete Recordings

By Philip Gelb

Label: Igloo
Released: 2011

Various Artists: Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 29, 2010

Earth Music commemorates a decade of musical art presentations by the forward-thinking Bay Area Gallery founded on and operating under the firm conviction that significant art increases social, philosophical and spiritual change. It seems popular now to support the new music, which by those two words seems to imply--and this is becoming odious too--the entire artistic ...

Between/Waves

By Philip Gelb

Label: Sparkling Beatnik Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: The Space Between; Waves.

Philip Gelb: Between/Waves

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 1999

Philip Gelb performs on the “shakuhachi” which is a Japanese flute made from bamboo with 4 finger holes and 1 thumbhole. Here, Mr. Gelb devises an interesting yet non-formulaic approach as he integrates his ideas into non-mainstream formats which include free-improvisation and electronics. The first piece, titled “The Space Between” was recorded live at Beanbender’s in ...

Philip Gelb: Between/waves

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 1999

Shakuhachi player Philip Gelb seems to understand that silence can carry as much weight as sound. His new record, between/waves, celebrates this fact. The sounds on this record, made by Gelb and colleagues, explore the dynamics of breathing in the setting of free improvisation. On “The Space Between," Gelb and quartet exchange bird-like noises, twisting and ...

Purple Wind

By Philip Gelb

Label: Igloo
Released: 1996