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Spooky Actions

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Quartet for the End of Time

By Spooky Actions

Label: Muse Eek
Released: 2006
Track listing: Movement #1 - Liturgie de cristal; Movement #1 Improv; Movement #2 - Vocalise, pour l'ange qui annonce la fin du temps; Movement #2 Improv; Movement #3 - Abime des oisedux; Movement #4 - Intermede; Movement #4 Improv; Movement #5 - Louange a l'eternite de Jesus; Movement #6 - Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes; Movement #6 Improv; Movement #7 - Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'ange quiu annonce la fin du temps; Movement #7 Improv; Movement #8 - Louange a l'Immortalite de Jesus.

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Spooky Actions: Quartet for the End of Time

Read "Quartet for the End of Time" reviewed by Ty Cumbie

by Ty Cumbie

The young Olivier Messiaen famously composed and premiered “Quartet for the End of Time in 1940-41 as a prisoner of the Nazis during World War II. One can apply just about as much meaningful drama to this story as one wants. It has even been suggested that Messiaen defeated the Nazis, in spirit at least, with ...

Album

Early Music

By Spooky Actions

Label: Muse Eek
Released: 2005
Track listing: De Virginibus O Nobilissima Viriditas; Vergine Bella; Canzonet 1, 2, & 3 (from 21 canzonets for 3 instruments); Gregorian Chant, Introit, Gaudeamus Omnes; Epitaph of Seikilos; Alleluya (Nativitas); Ode from the Kanon for Easter Sunday.

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Spooky Actions: Early Music

Read "Early Music" reviewed by Rex  Butters

by Rex Butters

Bruce Arnold and John Gunther return with their Spooky Actions project, an inventive improvisational interpretation of musics not often tackled by jazz-based units. Having already rearranged the thorny intricacies of Webern and the soaring power of Native American melodies, here they address the haunting subtleties of early music, including variations on themes by Monteverdi, Dufay, and ...

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Spooky Actions: Early Music

Read "Early Music" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella

Spooky Actions may seem an unusual name for a chamber quartet that makes serious study of music and interprets these thoughts with a unique spirit. The name is derived from a comment by Albert Einstein where he noted that certain seemingly unrelated objects could nevertheless exert a powerful influence upon each other. He called these relationships ...

Album

Music Of Anton Webern

By Spooky Actions

Label: Muse Eek
Released: 2003

Album

Many Moods

By Spooky Actions

Label: Amigos Music
Released: 0


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