Various Artists – Conversing with Spirits (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:27 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fall immersed into a collection of innovative stories and sounds on David Colson’s CONVERSING WITH SPIRITS. Colson’s distinctive push-and-pull textures are both an inviting and invigorating in the aptly named Un raz-de-marée de terreur et de joie (A tidal wave of terror and of joy) for bari sax and marimba, a welcome that drifts into a call back to classical trumpet repertoire: the long lamentations and surges of havoc discovered within Duo for Trumpet and Piano. This being closely followed by Ghost Music, a virtuosic marimba solo featuring Matthew Coley, a composition most reminiscent of uncanny whisperings in shadowy atmospheres—no doubt with a touch of whimsy, and a whimsy that is no stranger to the nature of cats, or more specifically, Cat Tales, a touching tongue-in-cheek collection of saxophone and piano vignettes invoking the personality of eight cats familiar to Colson. The River within Us concludes the collection, an at-once bubbly and fluttering two-movement work featuring the Western Michigan University Percussion Ensemble. Treat yourself to CONVERSING WITH SPIRITS, and enjoy the endless surprises it has to offer.
Tracklist:
01. Henning Schroeder – Un raz-de-marée de terreur et de joie (11:55)
02. Scott Thornburg – Duo for Trumpet & Piano: I. Staring into the Sapphire Sky (05:45)
03. Scott Thornburg – Duo for Trumpet & Piano: II. Butterfly Nebula (04:08)
04. Scott Thornburg – Duo for Trumpet & Piano: III. Simple Song Full of Notes (03:56)
05. Scott Thornburg – Duo for Trumpet & Piano: IV. On the Prairie (03:11)
06. Matthew Coley – Ghost Music: I. Gliding Smoothly (03:19)
07. Matthew Coley – Ghost Music: II. Phantom Winds (03:30)
08. Matthew Coley – Ghost Music: III. Sudden Apparitions (02:10)
09. Matthew Coley – Ghost Music: IV. To Move Unseen (04:13)
10. Matthew Coley – Ghost Music: V. Echoes and Whispers (04:57)
11. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: I. Wally (01:15)
12. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: II. Ella (02:16)
13. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: III. Frank (01:08)
14. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: IV. Bother (00:50)
15. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: V. Charisse (02:38)
16. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: VI. Molly (00:33)
17. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: VII. Pee Wee (02:11)
18. Henning Schroeder – Cat Tales: VIII. Cricket (01:37)
19. The Western Michigan University School of Music Percussion Ensemble – The River Within Us: I. This Is Not a Jungle (06:43)
20. The Western Michigan University School of Music Percussion Ensemble – The River Within Us: II. I Stand Alone on a Tall Bluff, Listening (05:03)
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