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Cold Blue Music

The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue

$32.99

Details

Composer
CHILDS COX FINK GARLAND
Artist
Duke-Kirkpatrick, Dunlap, Dunlap, Cox, Erickson, Fink, Garland, Rawcliffe, Lentz, Goodrich, Tenney
Format
CD
Label
Cold Blue Music
Released
Nov 01, 2003
Catalog #
CB0014
UPC
800413001423

About

This three-CD reissue of the noted series of seven 10-inch vinyl EPs that Cold Blue released in the early 1980s (during the label’s short-lived initial incarnation) was a Gramophone magazine “Critic’s Choice” in 2004. Extraordinary music for violins and percussion, electric guitar, electronic keyboards with voices, solo and duo pianos, cello, pedal steel guitar, wind instruments of pre-Columbian design, readers, and more from composers Peter Garland, Rick Cox, Barney Childs, Read Miller, Michael Jon Fink, Daniel Lentz, and Chas Smith. John Schaefer, longtime producer of WNYC’s New Sounds called the series of 10-inch EPs “Cold Blue’s little ‘ism’-skirting discs…a whole wonderful world of new sounds.” (This boxed set includes a 24-page full-color booklet.) In Arts Journal, Kyle Gann wrote about the reissued set, “A new three-disc set reissued from the hip southern-California label Cold Blue has me so mesmerized I can hardly quit listening to it.” Josef Woodard writing in The Santa Barbara Independent declared the boxed set “Decidedly cool—in hipness quotient and emotional temperament. Beguiling.” Roger Thomas, writing in Int’l Record Review called the set “My favorite item this month . . . the work of composers whose work might be described as avant-garde but which also exhibited the back-to-fundamentals approach which is so often an aspect of the best American music…a striking set…. This spare, uncluttered music is a compelling listening experience, sounding as fresh today as when it originally appeared.” And Gramophone magazine wrote, “The sounds are spare, wistful, innocent and soft-spoken, often beautiful in a way no other music is.”

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 No. 1. — 02:33
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. —
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Performer
    Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland
  3. 2 No. 2. — 02:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. —
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Performer
    Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland
  4. 3 No. 3. — 02:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. —
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Performer
    Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland
  5. 4 No. 4. The Dance of Death (to the memory of John Lennon) 04:58
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. The Dance of Death (to the memory of John Lennon)
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Performer
    Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland
  6. 5 No. 5. Corcovi: Night Birds 02:28
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Corcovi: Night Birds
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Performer
    Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland
  7. 6 No. 6. — 01:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. —
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Performer
    Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland
  8. 7 2 Pieces 04:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    2 Pieces
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Michael Fink
    Performer
    Duncan Goodrich
  9. 8 Piano Solo 05:19
    Track
    8
    Title
    Piano Solo
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Michael Fink
    Performer
    Duncan Goodrich
  10. 9 Vocalise 02:58
    Track
    9
    Title
    Vocalise
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Michael Fink
    Performer
    Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Duncan Goodrich
  11. 10 Veil 13:07
    Track
    10
    Title
    Veil
    Duration
    13:07
    Composer
    Michael Fink
    Performer
    Duncan Goodrich, Michael Fink
  12. Disc 2
  13. 1 Clay Music 18:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    Clay Music
    Duration
    18:46
    Composer
    Barney Childs
    Performer
    Susan Rawcliffe, Lisette Rabinow, George Alwan, Scott Wilkinson
  14. 2 Mile Zero Hotel 13:26
    Track
    2
    Title
    Mile Zero Hotel
    Duration
    13:26
    Composer
    Read Miller
    Performer
    Read Miller, Janyce Collins, Rick Cox
  15. 3 The Blueprint of a Promise 12:19
    Track
    3
    Title
    The Blueprint of a Promise
    Duration
    12:19
    Composer
    Read Miller
    Performer
    Read Miller, Janyce Collins
  16. Disc 3
  17. 1 After 03:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    After
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Chas Smith
    Performer
    Chas Smith
  18. 2 Santa Fe 02:26
    Track
    2
    Title
    Santa Fe
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Chas Smith
    Performer
    Chas Smith
  19. 3 October '68 04:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    October '68
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Chas Smith
    Performer
    Chas Smith
  20. 4 Scircura 12:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    Scircura
    Duration
    12:26
    Composer
    Chas Smith
    Performer
    Chas Smith
  21. 5 These Things Stop Breathing 11:15
    Track
    5
    Title
    These Things Stop Breathing
    Duration
    11:15
    Composer
    Rick Cox
    Performer
    Marty Walker, Rick Cox
  22. 6 Taken from Real Life 10:03
    Track
    6
    Title
    Taken from Real Life
    Duration
    10:03
    Composer
    Rick Cox
    Performer
    Rick Cox, Marty Walker
  23. 7 Slow Motion Mirror 04:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    Slow Motion Mirror
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Daniel Lentz
    Performer
    Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz
  24. 8 Midnight White 03:01
    Track
    8
    Title
    Midnight White
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Daniel Lentz
    Performer
    Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz
  25. 9 Solar Cadence 04:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    Solar Cadence
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Daniel Lentz
    Performer
    Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz
  26. 10 Dancing on the Sun 12:08
    Track
    10
    Title
    Dancing on the Sun
    Duration
    12:08
    Composer
    Daniel Lentz
    Performer
    Arlene Dunlap, Daniel Lentz