John Snijders - Transatlantic Swing (2008)
works by Christopher Fox, Ivo van Emmerik, Richard Rijnvos, James Rolfe, Luca Francesconi
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 249 Mb | Scans included
Label: hat[now]ART | # 149 | Time: 01:17:31
Classical, Contemporary, Avant-Garde
works by Christopher Fox, Ivo van Emmerik, Richard Rijnvos, James Rolfe, Luca Francesconi
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 249 Mb | Scans included
Label: hat[now]ART | # 149 | Time: 01:17:31
Classical, Contemporary, Avant-Garde
Transatlantic Swing is a CD of music rich in elusive connections. Some of the music is ‘transatlantic’ because it’s music by Europeans influenced by the Americas, some because it’s music by an American played by a European. In some way all the music ‘swings’, but no two pieces swing in the same way.There’s also a network of friendships between the composers represented here, although together they don’t represent any one tendency in contemporary musical aesthetics. And there’s a network of shared preoccupations in the music here – the balance between process and fantasy in musical form, the dynamics of sound and silence, the reconfiguration of popular music – but not all these preoccupations occur in every piece.