John Luther Adams - Four Thousand Holes (2011)
Contemporary Classical, Electronic | Cold Blue Music CB0035 | 2011 | 42:57 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 216 MB
Stephen Drury (piano), Scott Deal (percussion), The Callithumpian Consort
Contemporary Classical, Electronic | Cold Blue Music CB0035 | 2011 | 42:57 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 216 MB
Stephen Drury (piano), Scott Deal (percussion), The Callithumpian Consort
Adams (b. 1953) writes music that draws much of its inspiration from earth's primal forms and forces. These large, elemental concepts are never far below the surface of the music on Four Thousand Holes. The two works that comprise this album—constructions that grew from a blending of process and intuition—maintain a tight focus on music's inherent sensuality. The title piece, a bold, wonderfully quirky work, amasses and blends multiple tempo streams of simple triads with electro-acoustic "auras" to create a sense of beautifully suspended time. The other piece, ...and bells remembered... for percussion quintet, spins forth a quiet and gently clangorous world of ringing tones.