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Cold Blue Music

Cold Blue

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Details

Composer
BOWEN BUDD BYRON COX FINK
Artist
Budd, Bowen, Smith, Marshall, Winant, Kuhlman, Fink, Parcells, Pezzone, Nancarrow, Miller, Collins
Format
CD
Label
Cold Blue Music
Released
Apr 01, 2002
Catalog #
CB0008
UPC
800413000822

About

This is an essential collection of West Coast music that San Francisco’s Other Minds founder and longtime KPFA radio host Charles Amirkhanian called “a classic anthology of American new music.” Although bound together by a common concern with music’s basic sensuality, the pieces collected here are wide-ranging in style—process-driven works, through-composed pieces, ambient soundscapes, and music that glances in the directions of world music and avant-pop. In instrumentation, the music is also wide-ranging—from a celesta solo to a marimba quartet to a player piano solo to works for speaking voices and wineglasses to music for piano and bullroarer to music for pedal steel guitar accompanied by a choir of banjos to relatively traditional instrumentions. This anthology has something for everyone—and its incautious eclecticism is no doubt one of the reasons for its long-resonating popularity. International Record Review wrote, “Throughout, the music communicates the excitement of the new, the fresh, the experimental: most of the pieces convey a sense of delight and wonder in the sheer creative freedom of their approach to sound—an approach radically loosened from old rhetorics and rooted instead in a belief in the almost unlimited potential of texture and color…. a trove of small-scale pleasures and surprises, in which a sense of fun, curiosity, and the thrill of invention are never far away.” All-Music Guide wrote, “As avant-garde music at the turn of the century seemed confined to the extremes of noise and stamina on the one hand and the post-Feldman search for disappearance of sound on the other, one feels uncertain about how to approach the loveliness of the music on Cold Blue. Recommended.” And The Wire magazine called it “A rewarding snapshot of composition in the decade or so leading up to 1984… Cold Blue anticipates the new tonalities that characterize the post-minimal generation.”

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Beatrix 04:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    Beatrix
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Chas Smith
    Performer
    Chas Smith
  2. 2 Gradual Siciliano (for Gus) 03:58
    Track
    2
    Title
    Gradual Siciliano (for Gus)
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Ingram Marshall
    Performer
    Fausto, Ingram Marshall
  3. 3 The Three Strange Angels 06:04
    Track
    3
    Title
    The Three Strange Angels
    Duration
    06:04
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Performer
    Jack Leoffler, Jack Loeffler, Peter Garland
  4. 4 You Cant See The Forest … Music 04:03
    Track
    4
    Title
    You Cant See The Forest … Music
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Daniel Lentz
    Performer
    Daniel Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey
  5. 5 Marimbas in the Dorian Mode 04:30
    Track
    5
    Title
    Marimbas in the Dorian Mode
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Michael Byron
    Performer
    William Winant, Beverley Johnston, Kevin Little, Mike Perry
  6. 6 Appearance of Red 05:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    Appearance of Red
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Jim Fox
    Performer
    Dane Little, Rick Cox, Robert Krupnick
  7. 7 La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles 05:52
    Track
    7
    Title
    La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    David Mahler
    Performer
    Bryan Pezzone
  8. 8 Weddings, Funerals and Children Who Cannot Sleep 02:37
    Track
    8
    Title
    Weddings, Funerals and Children Who Cannot Sleep
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Read Miller
    Performer
    Read Miller, Janyce Collins, Chas Smith
  9. 9 In This Light 04:51
    Track
    9
    Title
    In This Light
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    John Kuhlman
    Performer
    John Kuhlman, Fred Parcells
  10. 10 Necessity 04:49
    Track
    10
    Title
    Necessity
    Duration
    04:49
    Composer
    Rick Cox
    Performer
    Rick Cox
  11. 11 Celesta Solo 03:39
    Track
    11
    Title
    Celesta Solo
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Michael Jon Fink
    Performer
    Michael Jon Fink
  12. 12 Wonder's Edge 04:39
    Track
    12
    Title
    Wonder's Edge
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Harold Budd, Eugene Bowen
    Performer
    Eugene Bowen, Harold Budd
  13. 13 Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow 03:28
    Track
    13
    Title
    Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    James Tenney
    Performer
    James Tenney