The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue

$32.99
Label
Cold Blue Music
Release Date
November 1, 2003
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHILDS COX FINK GARLAND
    • PERFORMER
      Duke-Kirkpatrick, Dunlap, Dunlap, Cox, Erickson, Fink, Garland, Rawcliffe, Lentz, Goodrich, Tenney
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2003
    • UPC
      800413001423
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CB0014
    • LABEL
      Cold Blue Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. —

      Composer: Peter Garland

      Performer: Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland

    2. No. 2. —

      Composer: Peter Garland

      Performer: Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland

    3. No. 3. —

      Composer: Peter Garland

      Performer: Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland

    4. No. 4. The Dance of Death (to the memory of John Lennon)

      Composer: Peter Garland

      Performer: Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland

    5. No. 5. Corcovi: Night Birds

      Composer: Peter Garland

      Performer: Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland

    6. No. 6. —

      Composer: Peter Garland

      Performer: Ronald Erickson, John Tenney, Peter Garland

    7. 2 Pieces

      Composer: Michael Fink

      Performer: Duncan Goodrich

    8. Piano Solo

      Composer: Michael Fink

      Performer: Duncan Goodrich

    9. Vocalise

      Composer: Michael Fink

      Performer: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Duncan Goodrich

    10. Veil

      Composer: Michael Fink

      Performer: Duncan Goodrich, Michael Fink

    11. Clay Music

      Composer: Barney Childs

      Performer: Susan Rawcliffe, Lisette Rabinow, George Alwan, Scott Wilkinson

    12. Mile Zero Hotel

      Composer: Read Miller

      Performer: Read Miller, Janyce Collins, Rick Cox

    13. The Blueprint of a Promise

      Composer: Read Miller

      Performer: Read Miller, Janyce Collins

    14. After

      Composer: Chas Smith

      Performer: Chas Smith

    15. Santa Fe

      Composer: Chas Smith

      Performer: Chas Smith

    16. October '68

      Composer: Chas Smith

      Performer: Chas Smith

    17. Scircura

      Composer: Chas Smith

      Performer: Chas Smith

    18. These Things Stop Breathing

      Composer: Rick Cox

      Performer: Marty Walker, Rick Cox

    19. Taken from Real Life

      Composer: Rick Cox

      Performer: Rick Cox, Marty Walker

    20. Slow Motion Mirror

      Composer: Daniel Lentz

      Performer: Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz

    21. Midnight White

      Composer: Daniel Lentz

      Performer: Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz

    22. Solar Cadence

      Composer: Daniel Lentz

      Performer: Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz

    23. Dancing on the Sun

      Composer: Daniel Lentz

      Performer: Arlene Dunlap, Daniel Lentz


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.”