Mild Violence

Steven Ricks (Composer, Conductor), New York Music Ensemble (Performer), Eric Hansen [double bass] (Performer), John Sampen (Performer), Carlton Vickers (Performer), Ron Brough (Performer), Scott Holden (Performer), Curtis Macomber (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: New York Music Ensemble, Eric Hansen [double bass], John Sampen, Carlton Vickers, Ron Brough, et al.
• Conductor: Steven Ricks
• Composer: Steven Ricks
• Audio CD (April 10, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bridge
• ASIN: B0017N8X3A
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #694,576 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mild Violence is not so violent, May 19, 2008

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Charles Madden (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mild Violence (Audio CD)

I must wax ecstatic about this music. It is, simply put, the best post-modern music that I have heard in many years. Steven Ricks has a truly original voice.

Track 2, Mild Violence, is a vehicle for some very pointillistic music that is totally in tune with our times, yet not abrasive.

Tracks 1 and 5, Boundless Light, and Beyond the Zero, communicate a sort of cosmic beauty, while Track 3, American Dreamscape, converses with Charlie Parker in the most intimate and well-understood manner.

Ricks seems to be in tune with a grander scheme of things than many of us do, and to have an actual vision of the other side.

Charles Madden