Customer Reviews

Chrysalid Requiem

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Strange to compare this to David Hykes, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, etc.
These people experiment in god knows how many arcane ways, but Twining is working very tonally. True, he creates tonalities you've never heard anywhere else; for some people that's hard to like, but none of the people in that list have done it this way (last I checked, no one has). Trained musicians are sometimes irritated by this music, especially those with "perfect pitch". But it's backed up by lots of rigorous theory, it's not arbitrary- it's *very* precise- and it affects sensitive ears in ways that can't be compared to anything else.
There is some harmonic singing in there, and we've all heard that, but it's only *one of* the tools he uses to showcase the tonalities he's playing with.
Get the album and encourage this man to make more!

This piece is incredible. It is a triumph for mankind. There is no other way to describe it. If you are thinking of buying this recording, please, do yourself a favor: BUY THIS RECORDING.

A beautiful and innovative composition recorded with an incredibly talented and musical group of performers. It is like no other piece of music I have ever heard before, blending many different musical traditions into one grand work.

Despite the claims made for this music, and the technical quality of the recording, I find it just a bit too uninteresting and unpleasant to listen to. In the same general area of delayed or looping or simply ethereal vocals, I'd prefer works by Gavin Bryars, Pauline Oliveros, Arvo Part, Steve Reich or even David Hykes' Harmonic Choir. I hate paying for and then physically cluttering up my CD rack with things I don't enjoy.