Scherzinger: African Math

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Label
New Focus Recordings
Release Date
March 10, 2015
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHERZINGER, MARTIN
    • PERFORMER
      Rosenkranz, Gross, Choi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 10, 2015
    • UPC
      600116685322
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR153
    • LABEL
      New Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. String Drum

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    2. II. Hallucinating Accordion

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    3. III. Bow Song

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    4. IV. Prayer Wheel (to Suck Water from Nowhere)

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    5. I. Mask and a Mask

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    6. II. a Kwaya

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    7. III. Tallis in Tunis

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    8. IV. Interlude

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz

    9. V. Mirror Notes (Slow Noises)

      Composer: Martin Scherzinger

      Performer: Jennifer Choi, Christopher Gross, Thomas Rosenkranz


Martin Scherzinger is a South Africanborn composer and media theorist, who works on and engages with the music of Africa. African Math is an album of piano trio music that "Africanizes" these western instruments (flipping the typical appropriation of indigenous instruments on it's head). Piano, violin, and cello are used as conduits for material originally intended for mbira, or kalahari, or Ugandan xylophone. Underlying the layer of transcription, Scherzinger highlights and delights in the rich musical mathematics which exist at the core of so many musical traditions in Africa.