Dreyblatt, Arnold / The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Live At Federal Hall National Memorial, 1981 CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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TOE-CD-54
Arnold Dreyblatt: Double Bass Viols with Excited Strings
Ruth Charloff: Double Bass Viols with Excited Strings
Randal Baier: Midget Upright Princess Piano Forte
K. Mason Hill: Portable Pipe Organ
Michael Hauenstein: Hurdy Gurdy
I saw this band or a very similar version of this band a couple of years later, but, most importantly, in a similar space; in a large, old, very reverberent building, where the overtones (the main point of this music) builds and continues to float for a long period of time. This concert made me an instant fan and I bet this album will do the same for you! Highly recommended.
"Arnold Dreyblatt is a minimalist who never forgot that music is still the human mating call. Anyone who has experienced the composer's recordings with his marvelously-dubbed Orchestra of Excited Strings knows how madly Dreyblatt's pieces swing. They flaunt time as precisely as a Swiss watch. Indeed, music like this can put you in the mind of the whirring cogs and pulleys of some small mechanized device. Everything's moving, twitching about, a bunch of individual sounds racheting up and down in a modulated relationship to all the other individual sounds. This animated playfulness exudes a real charm. Springy rhythms dance with each other, as clipped percussion and purposefully bowed strings generate delightful harmonic chatter." - Table of the Elements
"A composer of stature, Dreyblatt has charted his own unique course in modern classical music. Often characterized as the most rock-oriented of American minimalists, his work with the Orchestra of Excited Strings does justice to the moniker...." - Dusted
"...Rewardingly visceral, a dual exploration of how instruments react to the touch and how musicians mesh with each other ... a stellar ensemble." - New York Times
"Transcendental and ecstatic."- Downtown Music Gallery
- LabelTable of the Elements
- UPC806501105424