Guy Klucevsek - Scenes from a Mirage (1987)

Guy Klucevsek is an American-born accordionist and composer. He is one of relatively few accordion players active in jazz and free improvisation. Klucevsek has released sixteen albums as a leader or co-leader, and has recorded or performed with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson and others. (Wikipedia)


Scenes from a Mirage, recorded partly at the (legendary and now closed) Radio City Music Hall Studio in NYC in 1987, represents two distinct compositional streams which Klucevsek has been pursuing: large-scale works for multiple accordions ("The Flying Pipe Organ") which focus on mass, timbre, density and acoustical phenomena; and shorter accordion solos written in song, dance and theme-and-variation forms ("Dining in the Rough in the Buff", "Awakening"). The composition "Scenes from a Mirage" seems to Klucevsek a meeting of the two styles, which made it a natural choice for the title track. (nomansland-records.de)




Tracks

01. Dining in the Rough in the Buff
02. Mounted on the Fairground's Magic Horses
03. Awakening
04. And Then They Were None
05. Old Woman Who Dances with the Sea
06. The Flying Pipe Organ
07. Scenes from a Mirage