Touch the Sound [Import]

Evelyn Glennie (Composer), Recorded Sound (Composer), Misa This (Performer), Fred Frith (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Misa This, Fred Frith
• Composer: Evelyn Glennie, Recorded Sound
• Audio CD (April 3, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Normal Germany
• ASIN: B0006O9MCM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,229 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Warm Up, improvisation for percussion & bass

2. Tam Tam Wave, improvisation for percussion & bass

3. New York Sounds

4. Tapdance, improvisation for percussion & tap dancer

5. Airport Rhythm

6. Central Snare, improvisation for snare drum

7. Arriving, improvisation for voice & parts of warehouse

8. Sound Check, improvisation for percussion & guitars

9. Silence (Japanese Stone Garden)

10. Breath, improvisation for wind whistle

11. Taiko, improvisation for percussion & taiko drums

12. Tokyo Voices

13. Metal, improvisation for thunder sheet

14. Drums 'N' Guitar, improvisation for percussion & guiitar

15. Tokyo Night

16. Chopstick Solo, improvisation for chopsticks

17. Marim-bar, improvisation for marimba, piano & violin

18. Memories, improvisation for percussion & guitar

19. A Little Prayer, improvisation for marimba & guitar based on Glennie's "A

20. Seaside, improvisation for percussion & foghorn

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Touching, July 4, 2010

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Paul T. Hughes (Dallas/Ft. Worth) - See all my reviews
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Over the years, I have acquired several of Glennie's CD's, yet failed to realize she has a hearing difficulty. Touch has brought her earthyness & understanding of what it's like to be deaf yet not deaf. Imagine a world devoid of sound. Then imagine trying to compensate for that. How do you do that? I totally understand why she choose the title "Touching The Sound." A person with any disability usually compensates for the lack thereof by enhancing the other senses. Thus, color becomes more vivid; taste more sensitive; and touch more communicative (in Glennie's world). And it is that way for anyone who is deaf (partial or total). I appreciate her work and the advances she makes in the world of percussion giving listeners a deeper & more meaningful appreciation for her work. I ought to know because I, too, am deaf. Now, if I could just get her on my radio talk show!

5.0 out of 5 stars listening to an angel, November 9, 2009

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Ruth A. Drayer "Artist/Numerologist" (Santa Fe, NM) - See all my reviews
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Evelyn Glennie is a miraculous artist. Her music can be enjoyed on many different levels...it soothed and enirched my soul and my senses. After seeing her interviewed on a TV documentary, I was delighted to obtain her CD. She clearly plays with her heart.

I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Ruth A. Drayer author of "Numerology, The Power in Numbers" and "Nicholas & Helena Roerich, The Spiritual Journey of Two Great Artists & Peacemakers."