Timelines [Enhanced]

Lesli Dalaba (Composer), Amy Denio (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Amy Denio
• Composer: Lesli Dalaba
• Audio CD (November 9, 2004)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Tzadik
• ASIN: B0002XL2C0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #623,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude - Lesli Dalaba

2. Timeline 1: From the Birth of the Sun 15 Minutes = 5 Billion Years - Lesli Dalaba

3. Interlude

4. Timeline 2: Dinosaurs to Mammals 15 Minutes = 150 Million Years

5. Interlude

6. Timeline 3: Homo Sapiens Sapiens 15 Minutes = 150 Thousand Years

7. Timeline Guide [CD-ROM Track]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Votes for women, January 28, 2008

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Timothy Nelms - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timelines (Audio CD)

This album, the work of an all-female quintet, is excellent, if fairly obscure. The concept behind it -- an attempt to portray musically the entire history of our world and solar system -- is the kind of absurd ambition that frankly makes life worth living (if you're one of those people who thinks life is worth living). Sometimes they seem to me to be intentionaly subverting their own purpose -- why does "From the Birth of the Sun" begin with what sounds for all the world like dripping water?

I know next to nothing about Dalaba herself, aside from what Piero Scaruffi tells me. About this particular album, incidentally, Scaruffi said it "reinvents music as both a cathartic experience and a social experience", and that the quintet "crafts abstract instrumental interplays that challenge the dogmas of both jazz jamming and classical chamber music". Sounds like an endorsement to me.