Works for string quartet, didjeridu and percussion
by Romano Crivici, 2001
Artwork used in cover design: Rudolf Crivici.
Reviews: “From a classical centre, this album blows genre boundaries away in a scorching set that is so ‘live’ it’s reinventing itself as it unfolds.
He has achieved something very rare here; the slash and burn of inspired improvisation coupled with the disciplined nuance-ing of cold-blooded, calculated composition. The themes (melody and harmony) are rich, mining major and minor veins simultaneously and sometimes capturing segments, in a sampler operated by a footswitch, in dense layers amid the nimble, charged interaction with percussion, didje and bass. There are gorgeous spatial troughs- meandering piano and hand percussion, or solo violin and evocative atmospheric sections, strings bowed through effects. There is fragile beauty, tenderness, even romanticism in the tunes, and so they’re a universe apart from dry intellectual minimalism. Five stars, this is a masterpiece of form and performance.”
Reviewed in Sound and Image, Leslie Sly
“Check out the compositions The Rolling Force and Nightshift -they rock!”
(as ‘reviewed’ on one of a number of music free-share blog sites, illegally copied and made available for ‘free’…I suppose I should be flattered by such endorsements from the digital underworld!)
3/5/2010
| Track | Name & description | Time |
| 1 | On the Rebound | 1:43 |
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| 2 | Ebb and Flow | 5:19 |
| String quartet, percussion and vibes | ||
| 3 | Flat Earth | 9:43 |
| String quartet, didjeridu and percussion | ||
| 4 | Passing | 2:46 |
| Piano and percussion (improvisation) | ||
| 5 | Whirligig | 1:39 |
| Violin, viola, sampler and frame drum (improvisation) | ||
| 6 | The Rolling Force | 12:32 |
| String quartet, sampler and percussion | ||
| 7 | Kooriwadjula Talking | 7:50 |
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| 8 | Subterranean | 2:03 |
| Violin, viola, sample and percussion (improvisation) | ||
| 9 | Nightshift | 13:51 |
| String quartet, sampler and double bass | ||
| 10 | Calling | 0:46 |
| Solo didjeridu x two (improvisation) | ||
| 11 | After the Haze | 6:56 |
| String quartet, sampler, didjeridu and percussion | ||
| 12 | The Ecstasy of Clouds | 3:54 |
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| Total Playing Time | 69:02 |
Elektra String Quartet
Inner Voices 1, 5, 8, 12
Mark atkins, didjeridu , Philip South, percussion
Steve Elphick, double bass (Nightshift)
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