Maya Beiser - Maya Beiser x Philip Glass (2021) [Official Digital Download]

On July 23, 2021, cellist, arranger, and producer Maya Beiser will release Maya Beiser x Philip Glass on her Islandia Music Records label. The album includes Maya’s arrangements of Philip Glass’s piano Etudes Nos. 2 and 5, Mad Rush, Music in Similar Motion, and selections from Naqoyqatsi, part of Glass’s Qatsi Trilogy with filmmaker Godfrey Reggio. On this album, Maya creates a multi-layered sound sculpture with her cello, exploring and unveiling new dimensions in some of Philip Glass’s most powerful and achingly beautiful works.

Maya says, “What do I see when I listen to Philip Glass’s music? What do I feel? How does the construction and deconstruction of these seemingly simple harmonic and melodic phrases affect my perception? In making this album, I searched for layers of sound that might reveal something new about Glass’s ingenious creative power. I was thinking about stratum, the layering that occurs in most sedimentary rocks formed at the Earth’s surface. I imagined the layers of my cello becoming porous and Glass’s music flowing vociferously through each layer, like lava, endlessly creating new patterns, expanding into the landscape.”

TRACKLIST

01. Maya Beiser - Etude No. 5 (Arr. M. Beiser for Cello)
02. Maya Beiser - Etude No. 2 (Arr. M. Beiser for Cello)
03. Maya Beiser - Mad Rush (Arr. M. Beiser for Cello)
04. Maya Beiser - Music in Similar Motion (Arr. M. Beiser for Cello)
05. Maya Beiser - Naqoyqatsi (From "Naqoyqatsi") [Arr. M. Beiser for Cello]
06. Maya Beiser - Massman (From "Naqoyqatsi") [Arr. M. Beiser for Cello]
07. Maya Beiser - New World (From "Naqoyqatsi") [Arr. M. Beiser for Cello]
08. Maya Beiser - Old World (From "Naqoyqatsi") [Arr. M. Beiser for Cello]



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