The performances here are billed as "radical reinterpretations of Iconic Works for Percussion." Things promoted as "radical" rarely are, but in this case, you get the real deal. Not the least radical thing is that the name of the performer, Arctic Norwegian percussionist Kjell Tore Innervik, does not appear in the main graphics; you have to go to the track list to see who's playing. And the album concept is indeed somewhat radical. CD buyers will get a booklet with 15 pages of solid theory reflecting on the proceedings (the ...
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The performances here are billed as "radical reinterpretations of Iconic Works for Percussion." Things promoted as "radical" rarely are, but in this case, you get the real deal. Not the least radical thing is that the name of the performer, Arctic Norwegian percussionist Kjell Tore Innervik, does not appear in the main graphics; you have to go to the track list to see who's playing. And the album concept is indeed somewhat radical. CD buyers will get a booklet with 15 pages of solid theory reflecting on the proceedings (the work is exclusively for percussion; the link to the poetry of Sappho is one of its puzzles), but the main idea is that the same work, Iannis Xenakis; Psappha, is presented in two guises, or "personae," differing according to the player's mood and the imagined setting of the performance, and shaped not only by the player's choices but by such details as microphone placement. This is perhaps less radical for Xenakis, whose works are generally open to multiple realizations, than it...
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Iannis Xenakis; Morton Feldman. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
