Miniatures One+Two: Two Sequences of Tiny Masterpieces from 1980 and 2000 [Import]

Morgan Fisher (Artist), Baka Beyond (Artist), Deep Season (Artist), Dissidenten (Artist), Etron Fou Leloublan (Artist), Gavin Bryars Ensemble (Artist), Half Japanese (Artist), Heat Wave (Artist), Andy Partridge (Artist), Michael Nyman (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: Michael Nyman
• Audio CD (July 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Cherry Red UK
• ASIN: B0018RWDJ0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,721 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Bum Love

2. We're A Happy Family/Bali Ha'i

3. Wreck Of The Hesperus

4. Green And Pleasant

5. Mine Tonight

6. My Way

7. Rangers In The Night

8. Opus

9. Body Language

10. Andy The Dentist

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 1. Jump Time (Houston)

2. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 2. It's Coming (A Fanfare for the Millennium) (Jones)

3. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 3. Beacon of Hope (Peeni Wali & Johnson)

4. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 4. Chakras (MacKenzie)

5. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 5. 2000 Lights (Cornwell)

6. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 6. Minute Quartet (Milesi)

7. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 7. Atoms and Stars (Jones)

8. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 8. One Minute Blackout (Miyazawa)

9. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 9. Jodler (Trabitsch)

10. Miniatures 2, for voice & programmed keyboard: 10. Newgrange Aeon Fragment (Cole)

See all 98 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable compilation, January 1, 2010

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50 "mksonic50" (hermitage, pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miniatures 1 (MP3 Download)

I am STUNNED to see this wonderful obscurity from 1980 available here. For those unfamiliar with it, a gentleman by the name of Morgan-Fisher invited about 50 creative-types (mostly Brits, but a few American artists such as The Residents and 1/2 Japanese make the cut as well) to submit an audio piece for this compilation; the only stipulation was that the piece should be no longer than 60 seconds in length. From the well-known to the virtually unknown, musicians, composers, visual artists, and performance artists turn in such a wide variety of vignettes that it's impossible to categorize the contents except to say that the results are generally interesting, unusual, and often funny. My favorites are George Melly performing an excerpt from Kurt Scwitters "Ur Sonata" and British art-punk band Metabolist doing an amazing (and much too brief) piece entitled "Racing Poodles".

This comp is highly recommended for anyone into avant-garde spoken-word/music expressionism, but I must offer one caveat here: because this is only available via download, you will miss out on the EXTENSIVE liner notes that accompanied the original vinyl release, and in some cases, those notes provided a crucial context for understanding what the artist was doing (such as in the above-mentioned piece by Melly). For this reason, I can only give this a 4-star rating.