Peachy Keen-O

Beth Anderson (Composer), Linda Collins , Kitty Mraw , Ana Perez , Marjorie Anderson , Wharton Tiers , Michael Blair Beth Anderson (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Linda Collins , Kitty Mraw , Ana Perez , Marjorie Anderson , Wharton Tiers , Michael Blair Beth Anderson
• Composer: Beth Anderson
• Audio CD (November 18, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pogus
• ASIN: B00012CTUG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #974,538 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Torero Piece

2. Tower of Power

3. Peachy Keen-O

4. Ocean Motion Mildew Mind

5. Country Time

6. Yes Sir Ree

7. I Can't Stand It

8. Joan

9. Ode

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Out there in Words and Music, May 4, 2004

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John de Clef Pineiro (New York, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peachy Keen-O (Audio CD)

The French have an expression for it: à outrance, and has been applied to the art and ways of those who are "all out," "full out,"and "way out there." But, of course, in this "do your own thing/anything goes" aggressively eclectic cultural environment of ours, we have our own examples and icons; and in the hybridized twilight zone between the dominance of text and the hegemony of pitched sound, we find the collaged dimensions and medleys of Beth Anderson.

Ms. Anderson's creative output spans an unusually wide gamut, encompassing the lyricism of new romantic music; to vocal works that include an opera, an oratorio, and choral pieces; to theater music, and chamber and orchestral works, as well as the text-sound pieces so well represented in this new CD.

Viewed as a sonic retrospective of Ms. Anderson's vintage early work, this latest release, containing nine diverse works copied from her originally-recorded tapes, assails the complacent consciousness with sound bites of the mundane and overheard, a mother/daughter phonemic "reading," monolithic "organic" tone clusters, primeval rap, wails and rants, superimposed multi-track piano pitches, and the nasal inexorable semi-chant of an auctioneer. Except for the organ in the Tower of Power on the second track and the auctioneer on the last track, Ms. Anderson is a very effective principal or solo performer featured on the remaining tracks. Remarkably, the recordings on this CD are of very high acoustic quality despite the age of the original tapes, and one must actually read the liner notes to realize that these pieces were not originally recorded in digital audio.

Not unlike the poetry of non-sequiturs and the metasensical, Anderson's work inhabits a realm of objectified reality, where the stuff of everyday life is fragmentized, compressed, and intensified through isolation to achieve an acute sensation of the moment in sound. That said, it can fairly be asserted that as a modality of perception, Anderson's work pushes beyond a familiar formalism, disheveling expectations and taking on the challenge of the incomprehensible. However, one might also be tempted to wonder whether Ms. Anderson is really a mischievous spirit with an "off-beat" sense of humor, and an intent to prompt amusement and encourage adventure. No doubt, this listening experience will be a "turn-on" for some, a "first" for many, and a mystifying puzzlement for most.