Elwood, Paul / Wolff, Christian: Emissions Transparents
Elwood, Paul / Wolff, Christian: Emissions Transparents
Format: CD
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Artist: Elwood, Paul / Wolff, Christian
Label: Innova Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 726708600525
Genre: Jazz
Paul Elwood has many strings to his bow: among them, banjo player, composer, and improviser. From Colorado to Marseille, Iowa City to London and Boston, Emissions Transparents documents his far-flung visions and musical adventures. The title track, Emissions Transparents, features Pablo Gomez on electric guitar with the Callithumpian Consort of the New England Conservatory directed by Stephen Drury. This five-movement composition explores invisible communications- be they radio transmissions, angelic apparitions, or ghostly voices from the unknown, that manifest Elwood's interest in the paranormal and interstellar space travel. Since he was a teenager, Elwood has been drawn to the New York School of composition from the 1950s and 1960s that highlighted composers John Cage, Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, and Earle Brown. Elwood has been fortunate to work under the baton of Cage and to perform on a couple of occasions with Wolff. He commissioned Wolff to compose a work for solo banjo, the result being the aptly-named "Banjo Player," completed in 2015. This is the premiere recording of this virtuosic tour de force. Two tracks on the recording were improvised with percussionist Eddie Prevost of the legendary AMM ensemble, during a long and leisurely summer Sunday afternoon session in London 2016. Ashe County Lament features pianist Rose Chancler and the voice of Freight Hoppers alum, Carrie Fridley, singing the Appalachian folk tune The Girl I Left Behind. The track mixes live piano with manipulations of Fridley's voice- all reflective of both Elwood's background in folk music and her fascination with electronic sound design. Another stellar voice on the album is that of Aly Olson with the University of Iowa Percussion Ensemble singing text written specifically for this project by poet Albert Goldbarth, two time National Book Critics Circle Awards winner. Plutonic Winds connects with Emissions Transparents in a science-fiction-like world in which cold winds from Pluto rake the Kansas plains.
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