John Luther Adams - Four Thousand Holes (2011)
John Luther Adams - Four Thousand Holes (2011)
Contemporary Classical, Electronic | Cold Blue Music CB0035 | 2011 | 42:57 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 216 MB
Stephen Drury (piano), Scott Deal (percussion), The Callithumpian Consort
Contemporary Classical, Electronic | Cold Blue Music CB0035 | 2011 | 42:57 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 216 MB
Stephen Drury (piano), Scott Deal (percussion), The Callithumpian Consort
Adams (b. 1953) writes music that draws much of its inspiration from earth's primal forms and forces. These large, elemental concepts are never far below the surface of the music on Four Thousand Holes. The two works that comprise this album—constructions that grew from a blending of process and intuition—maintain a tight focus on music's inherent sensuality. The title piece, a bold, wonderfully quirky work, amasses and blends multiple tempo streams of simple triads with electro-acoustic "auras" to create a sense of beautifully suspended time. The other piece, ...and bells remembered... for percussion quintet, spins forth a quiet and gently clangorous world of ringing tones.
The two works recorded here depart from the sound usually associated with the music of John Luther Adams, best known for his vast sonic landscapes, frequently alluding to or incorporating sounds of the natural world. Four Thousand Holes (2010), whose title refers to a John Lennon quote: "And though the holes were very small, They had to count them all," from "A Day in the Life." Scored for piano, vibraphone, and orchestral bells, plus an electronic "aura" provided by the composer, the piece has an uncharacteristically bright, sparkling, occasionally brittle sound. Adams uses only major and minor thirds as the harmonic building blocks for the piece, although they are heard in a variety of keys. There are areas whose dreamy, cloudlike unfoldings make the piece recognizable as Adams', but some of its blockier, more exuberant sections disconcertingly call to mind the vivid brashness of the other John Adams' Grand Pianola Music and The Chairman Dances. …and bells remembered… (2005) for a percussion ensemble made up of vibraphones and other metal instruments, is, as its title implies, all about ringing, chiming brightness. It's not that different in its harmonic vocabulary from Four Thousand Holes, but it's an altogether lovely and mysterious work, subtler, more organically developed, more evocative, and more timbrally appealing.
Track List:
1. Four Thousand Holes (2010) 32:51
2. …and bells remembered… (2005) 10:06
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