Third Coast Percussion - Perspectives (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion, whose artistry blends “creative fearlessness with reverent precision” (BBC Music Magazine), offers an album of enterprising collaborations and world-premiere recordings of works written or arranged expressly for the Chicago-based percussion quartet, representing four different approaches to composing concert music.
Danny Elfman’s Percussion Quartet, structured like a four-movement symphony, shares distinctive traits heard in his Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated film scores, as well as hints of African balofon, Indonesian gamelan, and Shostakovich. Great admirers of composer Philip Glass, Third Coast arranged Glass’s solo piano Metamorphosis No. 1 for marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, and melodica. Rubix emerged from Third Coast Percussion’s improvisational collaboration with virtuosic, cutting-edge flute duo Flutronix, who also perform on the recording. Critically acclaimed electronic musician and composer Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) composed her seven-movement Perspective as electronic tracks, without music notation. Third Coast transformed this work of “beautiful complexity” into a version they could perform live as a quartet.

Track List:
1. Elfman: Percussion Quartet: I. — (5:11)
2. Elfman: Percussion Quartet: II. — (6:25)
3. Elfman: Percussion Quartet: III. — (4:08)
4. Elfman: Percussion Quartet: IV. — (4:21)
5. Glass: Metamorphosis No. 1 (Arr. S. Connors, R. Dillion, P. Martin & D. Skidmore for Percussion Ensemble) (9:38)
6. Jlin: Perspective: I. Paradigm (5:14)
7. Jlin: Perspective: II. Obscure (4:41)
8. Jlin: Perspective: III. Derivative (4:33)
9. Jlin: Perspective: IV. Fourth Perspective (3:50)
10. Jlin: Perspective: V. Dissonance (2:50)
11. Jlin: Perspective: VI. Duality (5:56)
12. Jlin: Perspective: VII. Embryo (3:39)
13. Joachim, Loggins-Hull, Skidmore, Dillon, Martin, Connors: Rubix: I. Go (3:38)
14. Joachim, Loggins-Hull, Skidmore, Dillon, Martin, Connors: Rubix: II. Play (4:24)
15. Joachim, Loggins-Hull, Skidmore, Dillon, Martin, Connors: Rubix: III. Still (5:59)