Another Great Review of Threnody! http://www.alansondheim.org/threncover.jpg http://www.vitalweekly.net/1025.html
From Vital Weekly:
"ALAN SONDHEIM & AZURE CARTER & LUKE DAMROSCH THRENODY (SHORTER DISCOURSES OF THE BUDDHA) (CD by Public Eyesore) "Reading the name of Alan Sondheim I had to think of old ESP-releases from the 60s. Are we dealing with the same person here? Yes we are! Sondheim is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, writer- philosopher, and performer. Virtuality is his main theme in many of his works I read. For his work as a recordings musician we have to make a big jump from his 60s releases for ESP into 21st century, to find new releases. Music is not his main thing, I suppose. However in the last few years he made several recordings with his partner Azure Carter. This resulted in Cauldron(2011) together with Helen Espvall. And in 2014 Avatar Woman saw the light. This makes Threnody in collaboration with Luke Damrosch, the third statement. Sondheim plays a wide range of instruments: alto clarinet, Bb clarinet, alto recorder, Irish banjo, alpine zither, viola, cura saz, electric guitar, di Giorgio classical guitar, qin, chromatic harmonica, electric saz, long-necked saz, oud, pipa, shakuhachi, madal, erhu and dan moi. Damrosch plays guzheng, madal, revrev supercollider software. Carter sings. Together they deliver an overwhelming and mind blowing work, consisting of 24 songs and improvisations. If only by the different sounds and timbres of all these instruments. But there is a lot more here. The music often sounds like blues or folk music, but from a totally other planet. Its improvised microtonal music. Very much alive and emotional on the one hand, but also of very a abstract and imaginary nature. A perfect combination if you ask me. Very weird are the tracks where Carter sings a melody over the improvisations of Sondheim and Damrosch like in the opening track Comeforme of Bone. Sondheim creates a very idiosyncratic, one of a kind, musical universe. A deep bow! (DM)" Address: http://www.publiceyesore.com Buy now! Please help support our music! _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
