Saturday, December 31, 2011

Sam Rivers-PARAGON (1977)




















Sam Rivers-PARAGON (1977)

Some data from external sources:

Sam Rivers, a widely respected jazz saxophonist and composer died Monday in Orlando, Fla. The cause of death was pneumonia; he was 88.

Born in Oklahoma, Rivers studied at the Boston Conservatory before beginning his career during the bebop era. Rivers, who played tenor and soprano saxophone, flute and bass clarinet, went on to record several free-jazz albums under his own name for Blue Note.

During the 1970s Rivers and his wife, Beatrice, opened their New York loft, Studio Rivbea, to free-jazz performances, creating one of the most vibrant spaces on the "loft jazz" scene.
(David Corio/Getty)

A review of Paragon (from 2002)

As the checks got smaller for jazz musicians, the bands did also. The fewer people to pay, the more profitable the venture. In some ways, this was a tragedy. For other musicians, men like Sam Rivers, it was an opportunity to make the music in his head. Rivers is a giant thinker. While his Blue Note recordings are certainly more accessible to the average listener, it is his remarkable trio output that is the core of his musical thought. Rivers is a player whose playing brooks no argument. There aren't many who can hang, even in a supporting role. There certainly isn't room for other soloists. This is sweeping, grand, muscular music, as regular and jagged as a seismograph, or the jittering of a lie detector. Here, he's supported by two men perfectly suited for their roles, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul. Fine musicians, here they are extensions of the music that pours from Rivers.- Rob Ferrier

I hope I will Be forgiven for not putting into my own words what this man (who was so gracious as to sign my l.p's) and his music mean to me, but I feel I am late in posting this and wish to wait no longer. Suffice to say, we have lost a master musician here. Check especially his flute playing in track 5 and hear for yourself.
Thank you, and Goodbye, Mr.Rivers.




















Sam Rivers-PARAGON (1977)
with:
Dave Holland - Bass, Cello
Barry Altschul- Drums, Percussion

Side One:
1- Ecstasy (Tenor Saxophone) 5:41
2- Bliss (Flute) 6:29
3- Rapture (Soprano Saxophone) 5:11

Side Two:
4- Tingle (Piano) 7:25
5- Paragon (All above instruments) 12:13

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HAPPY NEW EARS!

To All the members and visitors of/to A Closet Of Curiosities - I wish to extend you all fond wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
I have been here only a very short time, but in that time I have been made to feel welcome and appreciated. I want to Thank all of you who have posted comments in response to my offerings; they are very much appreciated, and I enjoy reading every one. (I have to resist the temptation to clutter up the section with responses of my own...very difficult - I won't try TOO hard.)

Please Keep the comments coming!

Enjoy the last few hours of 2011; CHEERS!
(Oh! And don't forget to buckle up- we're in for a wild ride!)

Best Wishes- Dr Eyescope

Friday, December 30, 2011

Don Cherry/Krzysztof Penderecki- ACTIONS (FOR FREE JAZZ ORCHESTRA) 1971



















Don Cherry/Krzysztof Penderecki-ACTIONS (FOR FREE JAZZ ORCHESTRA) 1971

BBC Review (Excerpted):
Liner Notes Enclosed

Actions was recorded live in 1971 at Donaueschingen and features the "New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra" (especially assembled for this project to perform under the direction of Krystzof Penderecki and Don Cherry). The Orchestra were a veritable who's who of the then emerging European Free Jazz scene; Peter Brotzmann, Willem Breuker, Paul Rutherford and Han Bennink, plus Terje Rypdal, Kenny Wheeler and Tomasz Stanko are all in evidence.

Classical composers were finding that their interests and working methods (structured improvisation, graphic scores, conduction and gesture as composition) were overlapping with like-minded musicians from an altogether different area, that of free jazz.

(One can) hear echoes of Turkish folk and classical Indian rhythms on Cherry's pieces ("Sita Rama Encores") interspersed with explosive passages of 'energy' playing.

The Penderecki piece ("Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra") explores the balance between composition and improvisation in a less playful yet no less meaningful way.

Apparently influenced by the Original Globe Unity Orchestra piece of 1967, "Actions" often sounds more overtly 'jazz' than that group (...)

Ian R Watson 2002-11-20



































Side One:

Humus-The Life Exploring Force (Don Cherry) 19:17

Side Two:

Sita Rama Encores (Don Cherry) 6:42
Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra (Krzysztof Penderecki) 16:46

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Max Roach- SURVIVORS




















Max Roach- SURVIVORS (1984)

From the back cover notes (enclosed):

When I first heard the improvised solo on Side A of this record, it was to me clear that Max had burst the boundaries of traditional jazz form to create a new type of music. It seemed almost impossible to me that anyone could at the spur of the moment improvise a piece of music as well shaped as if it had been written by a master composer (if there were any who could write as well as Max plays) that could have so many layers of rhythm going on all at once, that could swing so hard, and that could be so musically expressive. (...)

My idea for the present piece, for Survivors, was to create a form for this tremendous energy and creative skill, to give an emotional shape and structure that would set forth this new music to the whole world - (my classical world as well as his) so that all can see it for what it truly is: genuinely new, emotionally powerful and - the genuine art music of out time- classic.

28 years ago, at the first Monterey Jazz Festival, we created what to my knowledge was the first true concerto for improvising soloist and orchestra - the "Monterey Concerto For Max". In this, Max played an amazing and musically successful solo. But what I wrote was the "classical music" of a young and emerging composer schooled in Stravinsky, Bartok and Hindemith. The piece did not swing. Now 25 years later- we both think, we have finally got it, (...)
- Peter Phillips

Side Two of this record contains 6 compositions for a soloist.
These are compositions in the traditional jazz idiom in that they comprise a "head": a statement of a musical theme, and a subsequent improvised part derived from the thematic material. The notable difference is that these themes are written for an un-pitched batterie of percussion instruments- a traditional jazz drum kit.
The thematic material is, therefore, primarily rhythmic, but not simply so- the individual drums are used in a relatively melodic manner- high to low, and the results are what might be termed 'architectural' in nature and effect - in that the form of the entire work may be perceived in a single glance, and in that the form is present in all the details.
- DrE



















Max Roach- SURVIVORS

Side One:

1- Survivors (Peter Phillips / Max Roach) (21:28)

Max Roach: Multiple Percussion Set
String Quartet:
Guillermo Figueroa, First Violin;
Donald Bauch, Second Violin;
Louise Schulman, Viola;
Christopher Finckel, Cello


Side Two:

1- The Third Eye (2:10)
2- Billy The Kid (2:57)
3- JasMe (3:37)
4- The Drum Also Waltzes (3:18)
5- Sassy Max (Self Portrait) (3:20)
6- The Smoke That Thunders (5:47)


Max Roach: Multiple Percussion Set

Recorded Oct.19,20,and 21, 1984 at Vanguard Studios,New York.


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Ornette Coleman- PRIME DESIGN / TIME DESIGN




















Ornette Coleman- PRIME DESIGN / TIME DESIGN
(A Harmolodic Composition For Four String Instruments and Percussion In Honor Of Buckminster Fuller)

From the back cover (included):

When I met Buckminster Fuller in 1982, he impressed me with a spirited demonstration of his model of the tetrahedron, a geometric figure of the basis of the structural design of the universe. He manipulated the model, turned it inside out, made it dance, but the corners never touched. I said to myself- "That's just like my music", And at that moment I was inspired to write a piece of music based on Fuller's mathematics, dedicated to this man and his shining being, investigating the universe like an ancient child.
This piece is designed for five soloists. At different points in the piece, each musician plays in different time signatures: 2/4, 1/4, 2/3, 4/4, 7/4, 9/4, and 12/4.
The second violin introduces the theme, which is then played by viola, the cello and the first violin. After completing the theme,, each musician plays his part as a solo, performed "ensemble". Each soloist will end at a different place. Second violin finishes first, then the viola, the cello and lastly, the first violin. The audience is invited to contemplate the total sound produced from multi- directional components.
-Ornette Coleman

Performed by the Gregory Gelman Ensemble:
Gregory Gelman, First Violin
Lorissa Blitz, Second Violin
Alex Deych, Viola
Matthew Meister, Cello
Denardo Coleman - Percussion



















Side One:

Prime Design / Time Design (Beginning) 21:30

Side Two:

Prime Design / Time Design (Conclusion) 19:48

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Karlheinz Stockhausen- TRANS



















Karlheinz Stockhausen- TRANS


From the liner notes (enclosed):

"Two rows of strings sit one behind the other at the front of the stage from extreme left to extreme right, the second row somewhat higher.
They play slowly,completely synchronously-like dolls-the whole time, synchronized by weaving loom sounds which shoot through the hall out of loudspeakers...over the heads of the people,very penetrating.
The curtain slowly opens (in the Donaueschingen performance many voices in the public said "Ohhhhhh..." because the entire orchestra is bathed in a violet light and everything looks so unreal...)
There is a large orchestra of winds and percussion divided into four groups. And the four groups are amplified over four loudspeakers...
But one never sees this orchestra during the performance.
One hears an orchestral work the entire time, but the strings sit in front of the major orchestra and the strings play only a sound-curtain and they optically cover the major orchestra.It is therefore a metaphysical work insofar as the entire time, one feels:"the essential is "behind" but one cannot see it!
...I dreamed the piece. That is why I cannot speak at all freely about it: I do not have an objective relation to it.I simply dreamed it thus".

About the record:
The tape recording of the world premiere in Donaueschingen (Oct.16,1971 Southwest German Radio) is reproduced on Side A of this record.It is- with all the reactions of the public- a document of the hot atmosphere of a Stockhausen premiere.Performances with other orchestras followed, and the symphony orchestra of the Saarland Radio, conducted by Hans Zender, performed TRANS twice in November 1973 in the city theater of Metz, France, and made a studio recording in January 1974. This recording is reproduced on side B, to point out how very much the sound Picture of TRANS changes, through interpretation, acoustics of the hall, various methods of instrument amplification and recording technique.



















Side One:

TRANS
Urauffuhrung (First Performance-Creation) (28:20)


Side Two:

TRANS
Studioaufnamme (Studio Recording) (26:10)


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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Benjamin Britten / Arthur Honegger- Split Release




















Benjamin Britten- A CEREMONY OF CAROLS (1942)
Arthur Honegger- CHRISTMAS CANTATA (1953)

From the back cover notes (enclosed):

Although Arthur Honegger's Christmas Cantata and Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony Of Carols employ religious texts, neither is a religious work in the sense of music composed for liturgical use.
They might, rather, be referred to as celebrations: Honegger's of Christmas and of peace and good will among men of different nations; and Britten's of medieval life and religious attitudes as expressed in the popular carol
The Christmas Cantata is one of the last works of Honegger, the Swiss composer who died in 1955. Its score bears the place and date of completion, Paris, January 25, 1953, together with the note that the work is "after the sketch of January 24, 1941" . At that earlier time, Honegger had completed a portion of the work inspired by a poem of Caesar Von Arx. Von Arx died, and Honegger abandoned work on the original project,only to to take it up again twelve years later and fashion from it what is probably a very different work from that he originally had in mind. The Christmas Cantata is scored for baritone soloist, mixed choir, children's choir , organ and orchestra. (...) The work,while superficially not very typical of this composer, somehow still contains, in different application, the hallmarks of Honegger's musical style: the contrapuntal craftsmanship, the rather stern orchestration, the neo-classic interest, the final feeling of affirmation.
Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony Of Carols was composed in 1942, and is scored for treble voices (preferably boys') and solo harp. As its name indicates,it is based on carol texts, but it is not, simply because of that, a Christmas work; its texts include several that relate to other times of the year. There are eleven sections in the work, one of them, the fourth, having two parts.(...)
The work is representative not only of Britten's deep interest in medieval England, but of his ability to evoke it musically without the necessity of quoting medieval tunes.The work is at once both old and new, conveying the spirit of times long gone by through a medium and style that could be only of the twentieth century.





















Side One:

Benjamin Britten: A CEREMONY OF CAROLS (1942)

1- Procession (1:43)
2- Wolcum Yole! (1:28)
3- There Is No Rose (1:21)
4- That Yonge Child (1:37)
5- Balulalow (1:19)
6- As Dew In Aprille (1:03)
7- This Little Babe (1:35)
8- Interlude (4:24)
9- In Freezing Winter Night (3:28)
10- Spring Carol (1:12)
11- Deo Gratias (1:17)
12- Recession (1:57)


Side Two:

Arthur Honegger: CHRISTMAS CANTATA (1953) 24:30

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KNOCK, KNOCK (Knocking on the Closet Door)

Who Is It?

Hello. Allow me to introduce myself.You may call me Dr Eyescope.
I wrote a comment here some 5 months ago, telling Grey Calx how much I loved his (for me; newly discovered) blog, and offering to contribute, if he would like me to.
At that time, I knew nothing about digitizing music, using a scanner, or uploading.
In other words: Blogging.
Zilch.
But, as it happened, Grey Calx liked the content of my collection (and, I suppose,the
'cut of my jib'), and so my "apprenticeship" began. (That is; many emails with tips, suggestions and the basics of blog).
Now, a little later than we estimated, here I am.
My grateful thanks to you, Grey Calx.

What MUSIC?

I began collecting records as an adolescent, but I really got going when, (in about 1979) I was introduced to the used record stores in my city.I stopped collecting in about 1997 or so, when the prices became inflated, and the selection thinned out.I now buy fewer than 10 vinyl records a year.(Usually directly from the artists at live shows).
But in between '79 and '97 I collected voraciously- focussing mainly on the 'avant-garde' strains of Rock, Jazz, and Classical music.
I have always enjoyed sharing my records with others,mostly by D.J.ing on student radio a fair bit over the years.
Now I have the opportunity to share some of my favorite music (and other stuff) with you in A Closet Of Curiosities.

I hope you enjoy it.

Sincerely, Dr Eyescope.

b.t.w: I take requests.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Various Artists: AMERICAN STRING QUARTETS VOL 2: 1900-1950




















American String Quartets Vol.2: 1900-1950
(Vox Box SVBX 5305) Released in 1974
From the Booklet (enclosed):

This set is the last album in a three-volume survey of American string quartet literature. The two previous released companion albums are titled "The Early American String Quartet" (Vox Box SVBX 5301) and "The Avant Garde String Quartet in the U.S.A." (Vox Box 5306). The first album contains works historically ranging from a string quartet attributed to Benjamin Franklin to works by such early twentieth-century American composers as George Chadwick and Charles Griffes, and are all performed by the the Kohon String Quartet. The second album released contains works written since 1950, and is illustrative of the manifold approaches to structure, the presence (or absence) of various types of controls, and the use of a variety of musical materials which have, for the most part, occurred since the end of the Second World War. The earliest work represented in that album is John Cage's String Quartet In Four Parts (1950) and the most recent is George Crumb's Black Angels (1970). These works are performed by the Concord String Quartet. In this third, and concluding, album of the series the Kohon String Quartet returns to perform works spanning from the early decades of this century through the early 1960's.These, too, are illustrative of the wide range of styles that flourished during that period.
In his notes for the album containing the avant garde works, Lejaren Hiller states that "Stylistic heterogeneity and healthy eclecticism have always been characteristic traits of American music..." and the works contained in this album no less confirm the validity of that observation.The composers represented here possess strongly independent personal styles, and they all show a manifold desire to explore new melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic materials in their individual ways.For the most part, however, they do so within the confines of traditional homophonic and polyphonic forms.
The composers represented in this album are also indicative of the coming of age of American music.(...)


Note:
"The Avant Garde String Quartet in the U.S.A." can be found in The Closet.
"The Early American String Quartet" will be posted in the near future.


American String Quartets Vol.2: 1900-1950
(Vox Box SVBX 5305) Released in 1974

The Kohon Quartet:
Harold Kohon: 1st Violin
Isadora Kohon: 2nd Violin
Eugene Dengel: Viola
W.Ted Hoyle: Cello


Side 1:
Peter Mennin: String Quartet No.2 (1951)
1: Allegro ardentemente (7:45)
2: Prestissimo (2:20)
3: Adagio semplice (4:03)
4: Allegro focosamente (3:15)

Aaron Copland: Two Pieces For String Quartet (1923-28)
1: Lento molto (5:04)
2: Rondino (3:55)



side 2:
Walter Piston: String Quartet No.5 (ca.1962)
1: Allegro (4:35)
2: Adagio (7:35)
3: Allegro (4:25)

George Gershwin: Lullabye For String Quartet (ca.1920) (11:35)



side 3:
Virgil Thomson: String Quartet No.2 (1932)
1: Allegro moderato (6:21)
2: Tempo di Valse (3:54)
3: Adagio sostenuto (4:52)
4: Allegretto (6:58)

Charles Ives: Scherzo For 2 Vioins, Viola and Cello (1903-14) (1:44)



side 4:
William Schuman: String Quartet No.3 (1939)
1: Introduction and Fugue (7:37)
2: Intermezzo (7:38)
3: Rondo-Variations (8:21)



side 5:
Roger Sessions: Second String Quartet (1951) (beginning) (27:16)
1: Lento;
2: Allegro appassionata Alla breve;
3: Andante tranquillo;
4: Presto



side 6:
Roger Sessions: Second String Quartet (conclusion)
5: Adagio (5:21)

Howard Hanson: Quartet In One Movement,Opus 23 (ca.1927) (17:50)

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Boris Blacher- MUSIKVERLAGE



















Boris Blacher MUSIKVERLAGE


(All sleeve notes in German.)
These Notes excerpted from external sources:

Memories of Boris Blacher
by Harald Kunz

Blacher certainly took great pleasure in experimenting. This began already in the 1920s with the Dadaistic opera Habemeajaja. The high point was reached with music for Werner Egks meaningless but emotive artificial words in his Abstrakte Oper Nr. 1, which initially caused a scandal but went on to be a success. The end point was Ariadne, a duo-drama in which two speakers recite a text written in Goethe's time to an accompaniment by electronics in microtones of a third.

He also found great pleasure in jazz. Jazzy syncopation in Concertante Musik had made him unpopular with the Nazi press and later compositions often use chords that recall Blacher's liking for the Glenn Miller Sound of the 1940s. From time to time he wrote compositions for jazz ensembles like the Modern Jazz Quartet and the German All Stars. Blues Espagnola und Rumba for the twelve cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra demonstrates how elegantly Blacher combines jazz elements with the classical tradition.

The creativity of the musician Blacher was guided and controlled by the rationality of Blacher the mathematician. According to the laws of mathematics, he constructed his compositions and created the rhythmic serial principle of his „Variable Metrics“. Yet even in the most logical of his scores, there are always deviations from the norm, breaks in the rules; Blacher said of such „mistakes“ that they are what renders art human.
Intelligence and imagination, charm and humour, nonchalance and understatement were the hallmarks of his personality. With these congenial traits in his music, Boris Blacher's oeuvre will remain timeless and contemporary.

(translation: Gloria Custance)
Reprinted by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes

(...) Blacher's is an idiom of striking originality,based upon free atonal counterpoint. His adherence to the neo-classic esthetic manifests itself in his fondness for terseness and directness of expression.His orchestral writing is bright, vivid, and thinned out according to a careful selection of instruments. The result is a lightness and transparency which is at the opposite pole from the fat sound of German postromanticism. The rhythmic subtlety of Blacher's music derives from a technique of "variable meters" that are worked out according to definite mathematical progressions. The meter changes from bar to bar according to a pre-existent series which applies to rhythm the tone-row principle of twelve-tone music.Yet Blacher does not transform the technique into a system, leaving himself free to vary it according to his needs.His penchant for satire and irony goes hand in hand with a suppleness and volatility that are not often found in German music.(...)

Joseph Machlis- Introduction To Contemporary Music (1961,W.W.Norton & Company, pp 251-2).

note: Blacher was married to the pianist Gerty Blacher-Hertzog.




















Side One:

ABSTRAKTE OPER NO. 1, OPUS 43 (1953) 27:21
(The University of Illinois Opera Group, Leitung- Ludwig Zerner)


Side Two:

ELEKTRONISCHE IMPULSE (1965) 2:50

SONATA FUR KLAVIER, OPUS 39 (1951) 7:54
(Gerty Herzog- Klavier)

APRESLUDE- 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Gottfried Benn OPUS 57 (1958) 4:41
(Ernst Haeflinger- Tenor ; Gerty Herzog- Klavier)

WHAT ABOUT THIS, MR. CLEMENTI? 3 Stucke (1943) 3:05
(Gerty Herzog- Klavier)

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Ilhan Mimaroglu / Freddie Hubbard Quintet- SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY (A FANTASY FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TAPE) 1971




















Ilhan Mimaroglu / Freddie Hubbard Quintet

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY (A FANTASY FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TAPE) 1971

The Personel is: FREDDIE HUBBARD,trumpet & flugelhorn; JUNIOR COOK,tenor saxophone; KENNY BARRON,piano; ART BOOTH,bass; LOUIS HAYES,drums.
THE BARNARD-COLUMBIA CHORUS;DANIEL PAGET, conductor.
String orchestra under the direction ofGene Orloff and Selwart Clarke; ARIF MARDIN, conductor & Hammond organ
RECITERS listed in Track listings.
Synthesized and processed sounds,Mix components and final mixes realized by Ilhan Mimaroglu.


Some quotes from the gatefold (enclosed):

"The eclectic approach provides the essential condition for creative freedom".
"You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker" -Duke Ellington
"I'm one of the world's greatest trumpet players".-Frederick DeWayne Hubbard, introducing himself in a television interview.
"Criminology doesn't pay".
"Before asking what you can do for your country, ask what your country has done for you".

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY (A FANTASY FOR ELECRTOMAGNETIC TAPE)

Side One:

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY, Part 1 (time: 19:43)

(a) THRENODY FOR SHARON TATE
(Prelude & Comment)
The Quintet, string orchestra, synthessized & processed sounds,Mary Ann Hoxworth, reciter
(b) THIS IS COMBAT,I KNOW
Trumpet,tenor saxophone, piano, string orchestra, synthesized & processed sounds
Fazil Husnu Daglarca's poem 'Poverty', recited by NHA-KHE.
(c) THE CROWD
TheQuintet, string orchestra, chorus, Hammond organ, synthesized & processed sounds.
Quotations from Soren Kierkegaard's essay,'That Individual' recited by Mary Ann Hoxworth, Additional textrecited by Charles Grau, Fazil HusnuDaglarca's quatrain,'Bloodless' recited by Gungor Bozkurt, Musical quotation from Scriabin's 'Etude in B flat minor, Op.8.
(d) WHAT A GOOD TIME FOR A KENT STATE
The Quintet, chorus & string orchestra, Musical quotation from Brahms' 'Ein Deutsches Requiem'.

Side Two:

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY, Pt.2 (Time: 21:15)

(a) MONODRAMA
Trumpet solo, processed trumpet sounds.
(b) BLACK SOLDIER
String orchestra, processed string and percussion sounds, Fazil Husnu Daglarca's poem, 'Colored Soldier' recited by Freddie Hubbard
(c) INTERLUDE I
The Quintet
(d) INTERLUDE II
Synthesized and processed sounds, chorus, string orchestra, Hammond organ, NHA-KHE's poem,'Lullabye for a Child in War'
recited in Vietnamese by the poet.
(e) AND YET, THERE COULD BE LOVE
Trumpet solo, chorus, string orchestra, synthesized sounds,
Fazil Husnu Daglarca's poem 'Before The Bombs Struck The Dark Breasts' recited by NHA-KHE.
(f) POSTLUDE
Trumpet solo, processed trumpet sounds & synthesized sounds. Final words quoted from a poem by Che Guevara and recited by Gungor Bozkurt.




















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Lukas Foss- GEOD



















GEOD (FOR ORCHESTRA) 1969
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by LUKAS FOSS

From the liner notes:

GEOD- A music without beginning or end, without development, without rhetoric, without 'events'.
The large orchestra is divided into four groups. Each has its own musical language. Each comes as if from far away, appearing, disappearing.
...Each group has its own conductor. He beats standing up while his men play audibly. He continues to beat, but in a sitting position during periods of inaudible playing. One does not stop, one submerges into inaudibility. The one who decides 'which' music emerges 'when', is the fifth or principle conductor.
...Could there not be a music, which, properly conceived and executed, will sound like "music happening of its own accord"?
...It took me a long time to arrive at a valid technique for such a music. My first step was "Elytres", a score which contains on every page more than is ever heard vertically at one time. Whenever that page is played, much of it is omitted. The next time that page is heard, only what was omitted before is played. New here is the concept of obtaining variation, via omission.
But in "Elytres" as well as in three subsequent works, omitting still meant stopping (tacet). Only much later (in the "Baroque Variations") did omitting begin to mean to me: submerging into inaudibility.
...By inviting the conductor(...) to mix the four musics of GEOD, the point is clearly made that this is not chosen-note (masterwork) music. It must not be performed that way, and it must not be listened to in that way.
...One could say that rather than "listen", one "listens In"on sounds in nature and/or memory, passing by in an endless, quiet parade.



















GEOD For Orchestra

Side One: GEOD (Beginning) (18:34)

Side Two: GEOD (Conclusion) (17:56)


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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Singing Humpbacks


Marine Mammal Fund - The Singing Humpbacks

released on cassette tape (yes, Oxford Dictionary, this is still a valid term)


This one is another thrift store discovery. It's been a while since beautiful humpback whale singing has been posted. The cover and the cassette itself says that this was part of the Voices of Nature Series. Due to lack of time, I could not attempt to find more info about this series as nothing was showing up in the first few pages of my favorite search engine.


The liner notes does provide a brief explanation of this series:


The VOICES OF NATURE SERIES is a production of the Marine Mammal Fund, a non-profit organization devoted to public education of ocean and marinelife issues. This series is designed to acquaint the listener with the diversity of life on our planet through the sounds that these life forms produce.

The meaning of animal sounds is little understood. No doubt some of the sounds they generate are used in communicating with others of their kind, while other sounds are used to warn of danger. Through all of the possible meanings, one thing is crystal clear: animal sounds as perceived by the human ear are fascinating and can be listened to for hours.




Tracklisting:

Side 1


1. Hawaiian Singers {7:43}

recorded by Kenneth C. Balcomb and Lon Brockelhurst off Lahaina, Maui, in March of 1979

2. Mexican Singers {6:47
}
recorded by Kenneth C. Balcomb and Jorge Urban off Gordo Bank, Baja Mexico in March of 1988

Side 2


1. Humpbacks of Glacier Bay {4:49}

recorded by Dr. Lee Tepley at Glacier Bay, Alaska, no date provided

2. Caribbean Singers {9:40}

recorded by Dr. Thomas Poulter sometime during the 1960s

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum/Couleurs de la cite celeste


Olivier Messiaen - Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum/Couleurs de la cite celeste

released on LP


I borrowed this LP a few years ago and ripped it then. The cover was beat up so I had to "borrow" the cover from somewhere on the net. The back cover has a little bit of handwriting on it. I do not know what the dates refer to (maybe when the music was recorded), but it was nice that someone wrote how to pronounce Olivier Messiaen's name.

Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum ("And I await the Resurrection of the Dead")


On the back cover, the entirety of side 1 is referred to as the beginning and the first track on side 2 is referred to as the conclusion.


Conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Performed by Groupe Instrumental a Percussion de Strasbourg and Orchestre du Domaine Musical.


This work was commissioned by André Malraux. It was composed and orchestrated in 1964. Its instrumentation intends it for vast spaces: churches, cathedrals, and even performances in the open air and on mountain heights....

It is perhaps useful to recall that, at the time he was writing his score, the composer gladly surrounded himself with strong and simple pictures - of the stepped pyramids of Mexico, the temples and statues of Ancient Egypt, Romanesque and Gothic churches; that he re-read the texts of St. Thomas Aquinas on "The Resurrection" and "The World of the Resuscitated"; that he worked in the high Alps, facing those powerful landscapes that are his true homeland.

May 7, 1965, at eleven o'clock in the morning: the date of the first, private, performance at the Sainte-Chapelle. This was the ideal setting for the work, as much for the marriage of the colors of the instrumental timbres and sonorous intricacies with the resplendence of blues, reds, gold and purples, as for the alternating resonances due to the encircling of the stained-glass windows. A second performance took place under the direction of Serge Baudo in the Cathédral de Notre Dame de Chartres before a large throng on Sunday, June 20, 1965, at the end of High Mass. This was given in the presence of Monseigneur Michon (the Bishop of Chartres) and of Général Charles de Gaulle. The third performance was given in Paris, at a concert of the Domaine Musical, under the direction of Pierre Boulez, with the players who take part in the present recording. The orchestra comprises three ensembles: woodwind, brass, and metallic percussion instruments. (from the liner notes)


Woodwind: 2 piccolos, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 1 cor anglais, 1 E-flat clarinet, 3 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon


Brass: 1 trumpet in D, 3 trumpets, 6 horns in F, 3 trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 tuba, 1 bass saxhorn in B flat


Metallic Percussion: 3 sets of tuned cowbells, tubular bells, 6 gongs, 3 tam-tams


Couleurs de la cité céleste


Conducted by Pierre Boulez.
Performers: Yvonne Loriod - piano ; Guy Deplus - first clarinet ; André Fournier - second clarinet ; Gaston Derytere - third clarinet ; Georges Van Gucat - xylophone ; Claude Ricou - xylorimba ; Jean Batigne - marimba ; Pierre Thibaud - trumpet in D ; René Allain - first trombone ; Jean-Paul Finkbeiner -tubular bells

These "inner colors" spring from five quotations from the Apocalypse:

1. "And there was a rainbow round about the throne." (Revelations IV: 3)

2. "And the seven angels had seven trumpets." (Revelations VIII: 6)

3. "And to the star was given the key to the bottomless pit." (Revelations IX: 1)

4. "And the light of the Holy City was like a jasper stone, clear as crystal." (Revelations XXI: 11)
5. "And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones: jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprasus, jacinth, amethyst." (Revelations XXI: 19, 20)

The form of the piece depends entirely on colors. The themes, melodic or rhythmic, the complexes of sounds and timbres evolve like colors. In their perpetually renewed variations can be found (by analogy) colors that are warm and cold, complementary colors that influence their neighbors, shading down to white, or toned down by black. These transformations can be compared to the superimposition of plays enacted on several stages, the simultaneous unfolding of several different stories.


Plainsong Alleluias, Greek and Hindu rhythms, permutations of note values, the birdsong of different countries: all these accumulated materials are placed at the service of color and of the combinations of sounds that assume and call out for it.


The sound-colors, in their turn, are a symbol of the Celestial City and of Him who dwells there. Above all time, above all place, in a light without light, in a night without night.... That which the Apocalypse, still more terrifying in its humility than in its visions of glory, describes only in a blaze of colors.... To the song of two New Zealand birds (the Tui-Bird and the Bell-Bird) is opposed "the Abyss," with its pedal-notes for the trombones and the resonance of tam-tams. To the cries of the Brazilian Araponga is opposed "the colored ecstasy" of pedal points: sard red - red flecked with blue - orange, gold, milky-white - emerald green, amethyst violet - purple violet and blue violet... The work ending no differently from the way it began, but turning on itself like a rosewindow of flamboyant and invisible colors.


Couleurs de la cité céleste was composed in 1963. First performed on October 17, 1964, at the Donaueschingen Festival, under the direction of Pierre Boulez, the work was repeated on December 11, 1964, in Brussels (at the Reconnaissance des Musiques Modernes Festival), then in Paris on December 16, 1964, at a concert of the Domaine Musical, again under the direction of Pierre Boulez. In all these performances, Yvonne Loriod played the solo piano part.
(from the liner notes by Olivier Messiaen)


Tracklisting:


Side 1


1. Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum: I. Des profondeurs de l'abîme, je crie vers toi, Seigneur: Seigneur, écoute ma voix! ("Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice.") (Psalm 130: 1, 2) {3:39}


2. Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum: II. Le Christ, ressuscite des morts, ne meurt plus; la mort n'a plus sur lui d'empire ("Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.") (St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans VI: 9) {5:21}


3. Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum: III. L'Heure vient où les morts entendront la voix du Fils de Dieu ("The hour is coming when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God.") (St. John V: 25) {4:50}


4. Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum: IV. Ils ressusciteront, glorieux, avec un nom nouveau dans le concert joyeux des étoiles et les acclamations des fils du ciel ("They shall be raised in glory, with a new name, when the morning stars sing together, and all the sons of God shout for joy.") (St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians XV: 43; The Revelations of St. John II: 17; Job XXXVIII: 7) {8:41}


Side 2


1. Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum: V. Et j'entendis la voix d'une foule immense... ("And I heard the voice of a great multitude.") (The Revelation of St John XIX: 6) {6:37}


2. Coleurs de la cite celeste {16:44}


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Monday, October 17, 2011

Dutch Band Organ


Dutch Band Organ - Dutch Band Organ

released on LP (sometime in the 1950s? or 1960s?)


I think I was going to post this before the long hiatus. I found this LP at some thrift store earlier this year if I remember right. Most of the selection there was mostly 1970s and 1980s corporate pop schlock. Anyway, this record is another sweet-sounding and charming album of a mechanical organ. This is the music of the future. ;)

From the liner notes:

Dutch Band Organ is different! All Band Organs are a "gas," quaintly tootling and twittering away, but this Dutch variety is even more so. You have heard Band Organs in carnivals, circuses and fairs. The picture on the front cover will remind you. The straightforward melodies, crazy arrangements and frequent "clams" are nostalgic, taking you back to the fun days of your youth. In Holland, a Band Organ is a thing of achievement. There are lots of them and the builders take much pride in outdoing each other. The particular instrument recorded here is the Pride of Amsterdam, the best of them all! The process of making the music is interesting. after selecting tunes for this album, the list was sent to a roll maker who cuts by hand the appropriate holes in paper rolls which actuate the notes of the instrument as the roll progresses over a tracker, something like an ordinary player piano. The roll cutter in this case, incidentally, is a prominent Amsterdam attorney who cuts rolls as a hobby (try that one!). After cutting, the rolls were played on the Band Organ in a live room for the best sound. By the way, stereo recording equipment included Neumann microphones and the best of other European recording gear, all of which is PLENTY good. The very original adaptations and arrangements of the tunes played is remindful of the difference between domestic and imported Dutch beer.
[That sounds good about right now.] Anyway, make yourself comfortable for listening, put this album on your player and you will soon get the idea and want to listen over and over again!



Tracklisting:

Side 1


1. Wonderful Copenhagen {2:07}


2. Cuddle Up a Little Closer {1:17}


3. Tennessee Waltz {1:34}


4. Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? {2:02}


5. Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein {2:29}


6. Patricia {2:19}


Side 2


1. Que Sera Sera {1:40}


2. Pretty Baby {1:18}


3. Should I? {2:00}


4. I Get the Blues When It Rains {2:24}


5. Blue Tango {2:12}

6. Under the Double Eagle-March {3:07}


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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue


Moondog - Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue

There was a compilation of Moondog tracks with the same title that was released about several years ago. This one featured in the post is the companion CD to a Moondog biography, Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue written by Robert Scotto. I thought that as a biography it is very good. It is well-researched. It offers insight into who Moondog was (yes, he was formally trained in music), the unfortunate situation of his blindness that he had to deal with, how he almost became famous early in his career, why his life went into a different direction (i.e. why he lived in poverty and had to go out on the street to obtain income), his habits and lifestyle, and how he eventually became respected and accepted. I would certainly recommend this book for anyone interested in Moondog and/or interesting artists. Did I mention it comes with a CD of Moondog's music?


I think a lot of the tracks may or may not be familiar to you all, but this one does have some previously unreleased material including performances with Steve Reich, Philip Glass (who wrote the preface in the book), and Jon Gibson. Of course, there is a lot more of Moondog out there if one knows where to look.

Tracklisting:


1. Caribea {1:32}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


2. To a Sea Horse {1:44}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


3. Trees Against the Sky {0:51}

Performer/Composer: Moondog

4. Oo Debut {1:09}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


5. Autumn {2:08}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


6. Moondog Monologue {8:24}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


7. Moondog's Theme {1:54}

Performer/Composer: Moondog

8. Trimbas in Quarters {1:48}
Performer/Composer: Moondog

9. I Came Into This World Alone {1:19}

Performers: Moondog, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Jon Gibson
Composer: Moondog


10. Be a Hobo {1:22}

Performers: Moondog, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Jon Gibson
Composer: Moondog


11. Why Spend the Dark Night With You {1:40}

Performers: Moondog, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Jon Gibson
Composer: Moondog


12. All is Loneliness {1:38}

Performers: Moondog, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Jon Gibson
Composer: Moondog


13. Organ Rounds {2:05}

Performer/Composer: Moondog

14. Canon in F Major, Book I {0:44}

Performer: Paul Jordan
Composer: Moondog


15. Canon in B Flat Major, Book III {1:37}

Performer: Paul Jordan
Composer: Moondog


16. Canon in B Flat Major, Book I {0:43}

Performer: Paul Jordan
Composer: Moondog


17. Canon in B Flat Major, Book II {0:29}

Performer: Paul Jordan
Composer: Moondog


18. Canon in G Sharp Minor, Book I {0:44}

Performer: Paul Jordan
Composer: Moondog


19. Canon in C Sharp Minor, Book II {1:33}

Performer: Paul Jordan
Composer: Moondog


20. 5/4 Snakebite Rattle {3:41}

Performer: Stefan Lakatos
Composer: Moondog


21. Trimbas and Woodblock in 5/2 {1:26}

Performer: Stefan Lakatos
Composer: Moondog


22. When I am Deep in Sleep {2:18}

Performer: Stefan Lakatos
Composer: Moondog


23. Rabbit Hop {2:26}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


24. Dog Trot {2:25}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


25. Bird's Lament {2:01}
Performer/Composer: Moondog


26. Viking 1 {2:56}

Performer/Composer: Moondog


27. Heimdall Fanfare {3:07}

Performer/Composer: Moondog

28. Intro and Overtone Continuum {2:22}

Performer/Composer: Moondog

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Update: This Blog is Not Dead After All

For those of you wondering if this thing is still on, yes it is. I took a hiatus much longer than I expected. I have been busy with work, school, and other real-life matters during these past several months since I last posted. So I offer my apologies for the lack of posts.

Hopefully, there should be some new material here soon. I cannot say exactly when that will be.

There will be a new contributor joining us soon here in the Closet. He has some goodies to offer. His name is Dr. Eyescope. You may have read his comments in some posts. He says he can start sometime in November.


It has been stuffy in here. The dust is accumulating. This place needs some fresh air. I am thinking about making a few minor design changes in this blog along with adding a few new features. I have been also thinking about giving this blog a new look. More on this soon.

Another thing I have considered is offering materials in FLAC format. Recently, I have been ripping my CD collection along with some CDs I borrowed in FLAC. I hope to work on ripping vinyl and tapes in FLAC sometime soon. Future posts may have FLAC files as well as some older posts. More on this soon.


I remember saying around a couple of years ago that I was going to replace old links especially the Sharebee links. I am behind on this project. It has been rather difficult to find time to replace old links plus requests for re-ups. But now I have new links for some posts:

Frank Perry - Zodiac
Morton Feldman - Untitled Composition for Cello and Piano
Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel - split release on Time [S8001]
Harry Partch - And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma

various artists compilation - Dance of the Hareem
John Melby/James Tenney - split release [CRI SD 258]
Donald Erb - Music for Instruments & Electronic Sounds
various artists compilation - Electronic Music/Musique Concrete

More links will be updated soon. That is all from me for now. Stay tuned and take care.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

China's Instrumental Heritage


Professor Liang Tsai-Ping and His Group - China's Instrumental Heritage

released on LP

The CHENG, of the silk group, is similar to a zither. It has sixteen strings stretched over sixteen frets on an oblong wooden sound box. It is said to have originated in the Ch'in dynasty (221-206 B.C.), and therefore it is sometimes called the ch'in cheng. Apparently the earliest form of the instrument, in the Ch'in and Han dynasties, had twelve strings. Later, the thirteenth to sixteenth strings were added. The strings were originally silk, but brass ones have also been used since the late Ming and early Ch'ing dynasties (about 1650). The cheng was introduced into Japan in its thirteen-stringed form and called koto. The Korean and Vietnamese also imported the cheng from China. Recently, the instrument has been vigorously revived by Professor Liang Tsai-Ping, who was born in Kaoyang, Hopei, in 1911, and a promising period for the instrument is beginning.

The HSIAO, the vertical flute, of the bamboo group, is a bamboo pipe, originally dark or light brown in color, about 22 inches long. It has five holes along the upper side and one along the under side.


The SHENG, of the gourd group, could be called a "mouth pipe-organ." It is distinguished among Chinese instruments by its unique harmonic feature. Along the brim of its gourd base or body there are irregular vertical bamboo pipes. It is played by sucking in the breath at the mouth of each pipe, which leads out of the base or body, very much like the spout of a teapot. The Northern type of Sheng has seventeen pipes and the Southern thirteen. The pipes all have reeds.


The HSUN (sometimes, HSUIN), of the clay group, is an ocarina, one of the most ancient instruments in China. It is made of baked clay and ornamented with designs, clouds, etc. It has six holes, one at the apex to blow through, three in front, and two in back. When it is played, it is held firmly in both hands.


The NAN-HU, the Southern fiddle or violin, of the silk group, is a very popular instrument in China today. Introduced into China proper from neighboring Mongolia, probably in the Yuan dynasty (1280-1368), it has a hollow cylindrical body, one end of which is covered with snake skin while the other is kept open. The body is attached to a long arm over which two strings are stretched. The bow is moved between the strings.
(from the liner notes)



Tracklisting:

Side 1


1. P'ing sha lo yen [Wild Geese Alighting on the Sandy Shore] {3:20}

North China folk song of the 17th century; cheng played by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping, hsiao played by Wong Chen-Hwa

2. Lao sen sao tien [Old Monk Sweeping the Buddhist Temple] {1:57}

North China (Shantung) folk song of the 14th century; sheng played by Liang Ming-Yueh

3. Teng lou [Ascending to the Top of a Tower] {2:25}
North China (Hopei) folk song of the 18th century; cheng played by Liang Min-Shih (Miriam Liang)

4. Pai niao chao feng [Hundred Birds Courting the Phoenix] {2:17}

North China (Honan) folk song of the 17th century; cheng played by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping, nan-hu played by Lin Pei

5. Yang-kuan san tieh [The Farewell] {2:47}

North China (Shensi) folk song of the 8th century; hsun played by Liang Ming-Yueh

6. Tsu-yu hsing [Freedom March] {4:35}

composed by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping; cheng played by Miriam Liang

7. Chin shang hua [Flowers on Brocade] {2:23}

North China (Hopei) folk song of the 16th century; cheng played by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping, hsiao played by Wong Chen-Hwa

Side 2


1. I ku-jen [Remembering an Old, Old Friend] {2:23}

composed by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping; cheng played by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping

2. Shu-hua ch'u [Relieving My Heart] {2:57}

composed by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping; cheng played by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping, sheng played by Miriam Liang

3. Han ya hsi sui [Winter Ravens Sporting Over the Water] {2:54}

North China (Shensi) folk song of the 10th century; cheng played by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping, hsiao played by Wong Chen-Hwa

4. Ch'un chiang hua yueh yeh [The Spring River in the Flowery Moonlight] {11:17}

North China (Shensi) folk song of the 7th century; arranged by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping; cheng played by Prof. Liang Tsai-Ping, sheng played by Liang Ming-Yueh, hsiao played by Wong Chen-Hwa, nan-hu played by Lin Pei


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Friday, March 25, 2011

Tinikling!: Folk Dances of the Philippines


Nitoy Gonzales and His Manila Rondalla - Tinikling!: Folk Dances of the Philippines

released on LP

With the long-awaited independence of the Philippines in 1946, at the close of World War II, the culture of a nation comprised of more than 7,000 islands underwent a remarkable renaissance.

Long forgotten native dance patterns, songs, rhythms and painting and a revived interest in making ceramics all came to the fore in the most exciting decade the Philippines has ever known.


In this beautifully-recorded album produced in the renowned Mico Studios in Manila, Capitol is privileged to offer a top-drawer collection of pop music designed for dancing. All but two of the ten tracks are by Nitoy Gonzales' melodic rondalla orchestra.


A rondalla group is comprised of plucked instruments including the banduria, octavina, laud, bajo and guitar. The banduria is the most important. Shaped like an old English zither, the banduria has six pairs of double strings tuned in fourths from F-sharp to G. It is played with a plectrum. The laud is similar to the banduria except that it has a longer neck, a wider body and a lower pitch. Shaped like a small guitar, the octavina has a mellow tone quality and is tuned like the laud from F-sharp to G, an octave lower than the banduria. The Philippine guitar of the rondalla is a blend of the native kudyapi and the Spanish guitar. Its five strings are tuned E-A-D-G-B. The bajo is a four-stringed bass, tuned E-A-D-G, and played by plucking.


The second group of Philippine instruments are those of the Muslim Filipinos who live in the southern islands and still preserve their traditional culture. Basically, the instruments are an assortment of gongs made of brass. The gongs usually have turned-in rims and a protruding center knob which is struck with a bare stick or a stick with a rubber covered end. The major instrument is the kulintang, which is a set of eight graduated gongs, horizontally mounted on a wooden frame. This is a gong-melody instrument, somewhat like a gong xylophone. The gandingan consists of two pairs of large gongs with narrow rims, suspended vertically from a rack. Other gongs are called agong and babandil. The basic drum is the dabekan, which is played in an upright position and which has an animal hide covering held by rattan strips.


By far the most famous of the purely Filipino dances is the Tinikling, named after the long-legged "tikling" bird of the rice paddies. One or more couples dance, with superb skill and timing, between two rapidly clapped bamboo poles - a fascinating dance to watch (or try, if one has the courage). The world-famous Bayanihan troupe of Manila, which toured the U.S.A. so successfully in late 1959, invariably programs the exciting Tinikling dance as a colorful finale.


The musical conductor of the Bayanihan company, moreover, is the same excellent musician from Manila who conducts the rondalla unit presented in this album. Nitoy Gonzales is, indeed, the most popular musician in all the Philippines, with as many as eight records frequently in the Islands' "Top Ten Favorites."
(from the liner notes)


A little over a year ago, I posted an instructional album that gave instructions on how to perform the Tinikling dance if you're interested in learning more about Tinikling. This album is all-instrumental despite references to singing and lyrics in the liner notes about the individual songs.

Tracklisting:


Side One


1. Polka Tayabas {2:42}


2. Ti Liday {2:55}


3. Biniganbigat {3:28}


4. Pantomina Part I {2:30}


5. Pantomina Part II {2:13}


Side Two


1. Basulto {1:48}


2. Kandingan {3:07}


3. Sua Sua {2:44}

4. Los Bailes de Ayer Part I {2:58}


5. Los Bailes de Ayer Part II {3:44}


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