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Perspectives / Third Coast Percussion
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Perspectives / Third Coast Percussion

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Composer
Jlin, Flutronix, Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Third Coast Percussion
Artist
Third Coast Percussion, Flutronix
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
May 13, 2022
Catalog #
CDR 210
UPC
735131921022

About

All World Premiere Recordings

Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion, whose artistry blends “creative fearlessness with reverent precision” (BBC Music Magazine), offers an album of enterprising collaborations and world-premiere recordings of works written or arranged expressly for the Chicago-based percussion quartet, representing four different approaches to composing concert music.

Danny Elfman’s Percussion Quartet, structured like a four-movement symphony, shares distinctive traits heard in his Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated films scores, as well as hints of African balofon, Indonesian gamelan, and Shostakovich. Great admirers of composer Philip Glass, Third Coast arranged Glass’s solo piano Metamorphosis No. 1 for marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, and melodica. Rubix emerged from Third Coast Percussion’s improvisational collaboration with virtuosic, cutting-edge flute duo Flutronix, who also perform on the recording. Critically acclaimed electronic musician and composer Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) composed her seven-movement Perspective as electronic tracks, without music notation. Third Coast transformed this work of “beautiful complexity” into a version they could perform live as a quartet.

REVIEW:

Unlike a lot of academic music for percussion ensembles, Danny Elfman makes his quartet sing sweetly, leaning heavily on the warm sounds of the marimba interlocking with tinkling tubular chimes and pitched metal pipes.

The flute duo Flutronix's piece, Rubix, features punchy flutes dancing over a chilled out vibraphone, and foggy episodes where marimba, whirly tube and bowed flexatone provide an evocative backdrop of light and shadow.

Footwork is the hyper-beat music born in Chicago's underground dance competitions and house parties in the late 1990s. On Third Coast Percussion's album, the style undergoes a mesmerizing transformation in a seven-movement suite called Perspective, by Jerrilynn Patton, who goes by Jlin.

Third Coast Percussion, with albums like Perspectives, continues to push percussion in new directions, blurring musical boundaries and beguiling new listeners.

-- NPR. org (Tom Huizenga)

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 Movement I 05:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    Movement I
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Danny Elfman
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  2. 2 Movement II 06:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    Movement II
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Danny Elfman
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  3. 3 Movement III 04:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    Movement III
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Danny Elfman
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  4. 4 Movement IV 04:17
    Track
    4
    Title
    Movement IV
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Danny Elfman
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  5. 5 Metamorphosis I (arr. S. Connors, R. Dillon, P. Martin and D. Skidmore for chamber ensemble) 09:33
    Track
    5
    Title
    Metamorphosis I (arr. S. Connors, R. Dillon, P. Martin and D. Skidmore for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    09:33
    Composer
    Philip Glass
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  6. 6 Paradigm 05:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    Paradigm
    Duration
    05:11
    Composer
    Jlin
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  7. 7 Obscure 04:37
    Track
    7
    Title
    Obscure
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Jlin
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  8. 8 Derivative 04:30
    Track
    8
    Title
    Derivative
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Jlin
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  9. 9 Fourth Perspective 03:47
    Track
    9
    Title
    Fourth Perspective
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Jlin
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  10. 10 Dissonance 02:47
    Track
    10
    Title
    Dissonance
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Jlin
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  11. 11 Duality 05:53
    Track
    11
    Title
    Duality
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Jlin
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  12. 12 Embryo 03:33
    Track
    12
    Title
    Embryo
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Jlin
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  13. 13 Go 03:37
    Track
    13
    Title
    Go
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Nathalie Joachim, Allison Loggins-Hull, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore
    Ensemble
    Flutronix, Third Coast Percussion
  14. 14 Play 04:21
    Track
    14
    Title
    Play
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Nathalie Joachim, Allison Loggins-Hull, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore
    Ensemble
    Flutronix, Third Coast Percussion
  15. 15 Still 05:58
    Track
    15
    Title
    Still
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Nathalie Joachim, Allison Loggins-Hull, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore
    Ensemble
    Flutronix, Third Coast Percussion