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Byron: Awakening at the Inn of the Birds

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Composer
BYRON, MICHAEL
Artist
Cahill, Kubera, Supove, August
Format
CD
Label
Cold Blue Music
Released
Mar 01, 2003
Catalog #
CB0012
UPC
800413001225

About

Michael Byron’s music is one of contrasts, noted for its intertwining of minimalist and maximalist techniques and rigorous processes with freely composed music. It uniquely reconciles traditional notions of beauty with boisterous, almost-out-of-control instrumental writing. This CD features performances by some of today’s most-respected new-music champions, including pianists Sarah Cahill and Joseph Kubera, synthesizer player Kathleen Supové, and the FLUX Quartet. International Record Review, walking its readers through the album, track by track, wrote: “Continents of city and love is a moving and sensual piece—a sort of timeless, impersonal, chthonic lovesong.... Evaporated pleasure...is emphatic music, with a machine-like insistence; objective and impersonal, it is heir to the legacy of Conlon Nancarrow.... Even more arresting is Awakening at the inn of the birds...a glorious polyphonic cacophony.... As she sleeps...creates a still space enclosed by great tenderness and a wonderful meditative calm.... Tidal...is a many-layered sonority in which the near and the far gradually change places. The performances are as good as one would expect from so stellar a group of players.... another admirable release from Cold Blue.”

Tracklist 5 tracks

  1. 1 Continents of City and Love 16:37
    Track
    1
    Title
    Continents of City and Love
    Duration
    16:37
    Composer
    Michael Byron
    Performer
    Gregg August, Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera, Kathleen Supové
    Ensemble
    Flux Quartet
  2. 2 Tidal 14:34
    Track
    2
    Title
    Tidal
    Duration
    14:34
    Composer
    Michael Byron
    Performer
    Kathleen Supové, Gregg August, Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera
    Ensemble
    Flux Quartet
  3. 3 Evaporated Pleasure 18:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    Evaporated Pleasure
    Duration
    18:25
    Composer
    Michael Byron
    Performer
    Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera
  4. 4 Awakening at the Inn of the Birds 13:11
    Track
    4
    Title
    Awakening at the Inn of the Birds
    Duration
    13:11
    Composer
    Michael Byron
    Ensemble
    Flux Quartet
  5. 5 As She Sleeps 03:18
    Track
    5
    Title
    As She Sleeps
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Michael Byron
    Performer
    Sarah Cahill