Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra - Flickers of Mime / Death of Memes (2011) (2 CD set)
Contemporary Classical, Electronic | Innova | 2011 | 53:34 + 53:16 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 430 MB
Alexander Berne (various instruments and electronics)
Contemporary Classical, Electronic | Innova | 2011 | 53:34 + 53:16 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 430 MB
Alexander Berne (various instruments and electronics)
Berne's (b. 1969) music is a mysterious world of sounds from many different sources, including instruments of his own making. Like many other composers whose work is considered "out" (such as Roscoe Mitchell, Terry Riley, John Cage), the listener has to jettison preconceived notions of what music "should be" and revel in composer's sonic world.
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Alexander Berne is a saxophonist, composer and visual artist. His origins as a musician can be found in the jazz scene, but with a period exhausting the possibilities of solo performing in Europe and a further phase back in New York involved in film production and painting Berne has been on a long journey. One of his activities is creating his own hybrid musical instruments, and with clearly a very wide range of influences this double-album is filled with unique timbres, and much of the material here is very far removed from even the most experimental of jazz. There are indeed many remarkable sounds on this release. Berne works extensively with a variety of techniques to transform and electronically manipulate sounds, creating vast effects such as those in Flicker I. This opens with a tremendous, all-embracing sonority on a chord which sounds more like a grand conclusion than an opening. I love it. A circus drum-roll and crash of cymbals heralds surreal but subsumed theatrical drama, opening out into a cavernous space inhabited by massed and muffled church bells, the mysterious tinkling of a quasi-piano, elongated and moody organ tones, an elegiac melodic phrase from a saxophone.... Nothing here is quite what it seems, and the imagination is set on fire. These tracks share a cyclic development of material, giving each its own identity, and constantly creating new effects through shifting juxtapositions. The saxophone is an important voice as you would expect, but Alexander Berne isn’t interested in solo jamming. His tones melt into and emerge from the textures, a member of the family of sounds it inhabits rather than a prominent individual.
Track List:
CD 1
Flickers of Mime: Flicker I [8:16], Flicker II [3:49], Flicker III [4:51], Flicker IV [5:08], Flicker V [4:00], Flicker VI [4:49], Flicker VII [4:47], Flicker VIII [4:47], Flicker IX [3:49], Flicker X [4:16], Flicker XI [4:26]
CD 2
Death of Memes: Meme I [5:06], Meme II [6:16], Meme III [6:41], Meme IV [6:53], Meme V [5:23], Meme VI [4:19], Meme VII [8:01], Meme VIII [5:40], Meme IX [4:51]
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Alexander Berne / Death of Memes
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Read more about the CD here.
Read more about Alexander Berne here.
3% recovery record is included.
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