Harrison, Michael - Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation
SKU
05-CA21043
Wonderful, just intonated, 24 tones per octave piano music, very reminiscent of LaMonte Young's well tuned piano works, which isn't surprising, as Harrision studied with Young for many years. If you like this sort of sound, this is really great.
"A protégé of new music pioneer La Monte Young, composer-pianist Michael Harrison has developed one the most distinctive voices of our time, informed by his study of North Indian classical ragas and Middle Eastern rhythms. In Revelation (2001), his hypnotic seventy-minute work for solo piano, he employs the principles of harmonic resonance and just intonation to forge a remarkable new sound for the instrument, based on unfamiliar tunings and scales. Live performances of this strangely beautiful work have been praised for delivering 'heaping doses of old-fashioned, jaw-dropping virtuosity' (Los Angeles Times) and for generating 'pulsating shimmering walls of sound.'"-The Wire