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Lansky: Threads / So Percussion

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Composer
LANSKY, PAUL
Artist
So Percussion
Format
CD
Label
Cantaloupe Music
Released
Jan 25, 2011
Catalog #
CA21064
UPC
713746306427

About

Since 1999, So Percussion has been creating music that explores all the extremes of emotion and musical possibility. It has not been an easy music to define. Called an “experimental powerhouse” by the Village Voice, “astonishing and entrancing” by Billboard Magazine, and “brilliant” by the New York Times, the Brooklyn based quartet’s innovative work with today’s most exciting composers and their own original music has quickly helped them forge a unique and diverse career.

Threads, written for So Percussion in 2005, is a half-hour long “cantata” for percussion quartet in ten short movements. There are three “threads” that are interwoven in the piece: Arias and Preludes that focus on the metallic pitched sounds of vibraphones, glockenspiel and pipes; Choruses in which drumming predominates; and Recitatives made largely from Cage-like noise instruments, bottles, flower pots, crotales, etc. The aim of the different threads is to highlight the wide range of qualities that percussion instruments are capable of, from lyrical and tender to forceful and aggressive, and weave them into one continuous “thread”.

-- Paul Lansky

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 I. Prelude - 03:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Prelude -
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  2. 2 II. Recitative - 01:54
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Recitative -
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  3. 3 III. Chorus - 02:14
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Chorus -
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  4. 4 IV. Aria - 02:41
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Aria -
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  5. 5 V. Recitative - 02:24
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Recitative -
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  6. 6 VI. Chorus - 02:16
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Chorus -
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  7. 7 VII. Aria - 03:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Aria -
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  8. 8 VIII. Recitative - 02:06
    Track
    8
    Title
    VIII. Recitative -
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  9. 9 IX. Chorus - 03:26
    Track
    9
    Title
    IX. Chorus -
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion
  10. 10 X. Chorale Prelude 04:27
    Track
    10
    Title
    X. Chorale Prelude
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Paul Lansky
    Ensemble
    Sō Percussion