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Michael Nyman Band - Michael Nyman (1981) Remastered Reissue 2011

Posted By: Designol

Date: 28 Nov 2022 21:24:40

Michael Nyman Band - Michael Nyman (1981) Remastered Reissue 2011

Michael Nyman is the third album release by Michael Nyman and the second with the Michael Nyman Band, having previously contributed tracks to new music compilations. Most of the music on Michael Nyman was material from the early films by Peter Greenaway such as "Bird Anthem" (Act Of God) and "Bird List Song" (The Falls). The album also includes his first concert work for the band, "In Re Don Giovanni" which was released as a single on Les Disques du Crepuscule (home of Cabaret Voltaire, Durutti Column and Josef K amongst others) under the title Mozart. The most groundbreaking track on Michael Nyman, however, is "Waltz in F", a piece Nyman wrote for art students whilst teaching at Trent Polytechnic in 1977, Nyman subsequently commandeering two modern jazz improvisers, Evan Parker and Peter Brotzman, to "destroy" this piece. Ultimately, Parker and Brotzman ended up playing over and around ten separate tracks whilst Nyman and Cunningham mixed in their Waltz.

This reissue of Michael Nyman's second album from 1981 effectively his first with a Michael Nyman Band that included Alexander Balanescu and Roderick Skeaping has aged well. Its industriously cycling Anglo-minimalism, couched in strings and reeds, is redolent of early Peter Greenaway films: "Bird List Song" is lovely, silly and serious the same time, like the film for which it was written, The Falls. The serio-comic tone helps sustain the music's appeal, compared to the joylessness of much American minimalism: this is music full of affirmative bustle, aware of its lurking pomposity, and not afraid to embrace the free-jazz squawks of Evan Parker and Peter Brötzmann on "Waltz".

Review by Independent

Michael Nyman at Allmusic
Michael Nyman at Wiki

Michael Nyman Band members

Rory Allam - clarinet
Alexander Balanescu - violin
Anne Barnard - french horn
Ben Grove - guitar, bass guitar
John Harle - saxophone
Nick Hayley - rebec, violin
Ian Mitchell - clarinet
Michael Nyman - piano
Elisabeth Perry - violin
Steve Saunders - trombone
Roderick Skeaping - rebec, violin
Keith Thompson - flute, piccolo, recorder, saxophone
Doug Wootton - banjo

Guest musicians

Peter Brötzmann - bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Evan Parker - soprano saxophone
Lucie Skeaping - soprano

Tracklist:

01. Bird Anthem (02:39)
02. In Re Don Giovanni (02:52)
03. Initial Treat (03:01)
04. Secondary Treat (01:37)
05. Waltz (06:03)
06. Bird List Song (04:20)
07. M-Work (21:14)

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