Jose Maceda - Drone and Melody
Жанр: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Год выпуска диска: 2007
Производитель диска: USA
Аудио кодек: M4A
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 45:42
Трэклист:
1. Strata
2. Sujeichon
3. Music for Two Pianos and Four Precussion Groups 2000
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Personnel:
Up Contemporary Music Players
Ramôn P. Santos: Conductor
The Mills Performing Group
Steed Cowart: Conductor
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Tzadik Info:
Cat. # 8043
Released Nov 2007
cd time - 45:42
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This is the second Tzadik release of music by one of the most original and under-appreciated composers of the twentieth century. With his passing in 2004, several of his most passionate musical collaborators have been continuing Maceda’s legacy and they come together here to present his most ambitious and greatest large scale work—Strata. Beautifully recorded In Manila at the University of the Philippines directed by Maceda’s long-time collaborator Ramôn Santos and Mills College colleague Chris Brown, this is a long awaited follow-up to the seminal Gongs and Bamboo release from 2001. Also included are two beautifully recorded pieces for western instruments from Maceda’s last decade—Sujeichon for five pianos based largely on Korean court music, and Music for Two Pianos and Four Percussion Groups. Another essential release by this maverick compositional master.
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# Performer: The Mills Performing Group, University of the Philippines Contemporary Music Players, Belle Bulwinkle, Charity Chan, Chris Brown, et al.
# Conductor: Ramón P. Santos, Steed Cowart
# Composer: Jose Maceda
# Label: Tzadik
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Info: (English)
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Jose Maceda
Drone and Melody
(Tzadik)
Though not generally well known in the West, Jose Maceda's work was and is revered in his native Philippines and throughout Asia. Beginning with a career as a concert pianist in the 1930's, Maceda opted to study ethnomusicology, and eventually became a professor in Manila. His field recordings comprise a vast collection of native Philippino music and language, and he wrote extensively about them. The influence of this work shows very clearly in the compositions he started writing in the 1960's, when Maceda was in his 50's. His first works called for very large ensembles utilizing native Philippine instruments (bamboo, gongs etc) and voices, building dense layers of overlapping sound fields. Maceda spoke of a "blurring effect" that he hoped to achieve.
That blurring effect is in evidence in the pieces collected on Drone and Melody, but here Maceda wrote for western instruments, sometimes mixed in with traditional Philippino sounds. "Strata" begins with characteristic choruses of buzzers and bamboo, which are soon adjoined by flutes (of the orchestral variety), playing repeating patterns in loose unison. A fog of rhythm, tone and melodic fragments, the piece becomes denser with the inclusion of cellos and guitars, also playing repeating figures, underpinned with dark gongs. All of the melodies play around, or rather on top of each other, creating a mass of dense filigree. When periodic rhythm is introduced, it is of the simplest variety, a slow ragged pulse pushing through the mass. Maceda wanted to unhinge the western instruments from their usual functions and make them adhere to his new sound world, and I think he succeeds admirably with this work. It makes me wonder if he wrote for larger western ensembles.
"Sujeichon" is a piece for four pianos based on Korean court music from around 700 A.D. A similar blurring effect is heard here, but sparser and less varied in its tonal color. The piano lines separate and converge around a drum part played in the low register.
The final piece on the disc, "Music For Two Pianos and Four Percussion Groups", sits somewhere between the first two works density-wise. The instruments play independently of each other, collecting in brief choruses and then spinning out away from each other. Rhythms start and stop, joined by contrasting voices. It certainly seems that Maceda used a lot of variety within his chosen aesthetic, and i hope that much more of his work is released in future.
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Customer Review @ Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars - Jose Maceda's Unique Vision Continues to Shine on Tzadik, March 23, 2008
By: M. Cimino (SF)
Jose Maceda's second release on Tzadik picks up where the incredible "Gongs & Bamboos" left off. The opening piece, "STRATA" (which could easily be included on "Gongs...") is scorded for buzzers, sticks, gongs, flutes, celli, & guitars - and the piece sounds as unique as the instrumentation itself. The flutes, celli & guitars float above the wash of buzzers, sticks, & gongs. Here is what the composer has to say about the function of the Western instruments in the opening piece, "Flutes, celli, & guitars construct other layers treated without hierarchy. Individual pitches are meaningless. They move independently of eachother."
The second piece "SUJEICHON" is scored for four pianos and described as "Korean Court Music." Unfortunatley I am not familiar with Korean court music, but as a casual lister of music I can tell you the piece is very percussive in nature and engaging throughout its 14 minute construct.
Finally, there is "MUSIC FOR 2 PIANOS & 4 PERCUSSION GRPS". This piece is the perfect conclusion to this CD. I don't really know how do do it justice, so here is a quick quote from the linear notes, "Intermediate pitches of four percussion groups arrange themselves in patches & lines of colour...an opposition to the two pianos' freely-vibrating strings, ascending fifths and stationary octaves..."
Run, don't walk to pick up this release!
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За рип с оригинального CD спасибо, monsieurlodus (thanks!)
Великолепный альбом!
Другой Tzadik'овский диск José Maceda ... тут - https://rutracker.org/forum/https://rutracker.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2465165
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