Andrew McKenna Lee - Gravity and Air (2009)
Andrew McKenna Lee - Gravity and Air (2009)
Contemporary Classical | New Amsterdam | 2009 | 53:52 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Booklet | Various File Hosts | 259 MB
Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar, Janus Trio
Contemporary Classical | New Amsterdam | 2009 | 53:52 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Booklet | Various File Hosts | 259 MB
Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar, Janus Trio
The fretwork of guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee (b. 1974) is nothing short of remarkable. Opening Gravity and Air with an homage to Bach—a sensuous rendition of “Prelude for Lute in D Minor, BWV 999”—Lee continues with five gorgeous “Refractions,” or responses, to the “Prelude.” Discover an altered sense of the passage of time with this remarkably introspective album.
Doyle Armbrust, TimeOut Chicago
The Five Refractions of a Prelude by Bach is a staggeringly inventive and virtuosic set of variations... From the very beginning we hear a tremendous musical and guitaristic mind at work in the melodic shapes, harmonic ideas, and especially textural integration of notes played by both hands with those played by the left and embedded harmonics. Parts of the piece are delicately beautiful, while others are aggressive and violent, but integrated into a stunning whole... the dark out of the nighttime—the title taken from a song by Bob Dylan—is likewise substantial and inventive work. While Lee is a fine guitarist, as a composer he is not limited to the instrument: flute, viola, guitar, and harp are each used idiomatically yet innovatively, with a marvelous exploration of the sonorities which can result from their combinations. I have absolutely no idea what the composer was going for in Scordatura Suite... There is ferociously violent playing followed by meditative, reflective moments, as well as highly original deployment of non-traditional techniques all over the instrument... I'm not sure if he was going for the rock/classical synthesis, but if he was, it's the best effort of its kind I have yet heard.
Soundboard, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3
In the first piece, Five Refractions on a Prelude of Bach, Lee takes the BWV 999 C minor lute prelude and reconstructs, dissects and ultimately applies a charge of C4 to the simple lute prelude. The result is absolutely stunning. ...Andrew McKenna Lee is exactly what the guitar world needs: a composer with as much attention to the progression of music as he has chops that are capable of killing small rodents. While the disc is saturated with pyrotechnics, there's just as much soul. One could say his soul is on fire... as cliche as that might sound .
Tracks:
J.S. Bach
1. Prelude in D Minor, BWV 999 1:23
Andrew McKenna Lee
Five Refractions of a Prelude by Bach (2004, 2008)
2. Variation 1:48
3. Fixation 2:20
4. Fantasy 6:10
5. Nocturne 4:15
6. Toccata 7:11
7. the dark out of the nighttime (2005) 14:17
Scordatura Suite (2002)
8. Arabescata 4:56
9. Gravity and Air 5:52
10. Dizzying Array 5:45
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www.andrewmckennalee.com
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