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Gravikords Whirlies & Pyrophones
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Track Listings
| 1 | Excerpt From Le Bal - Hans Reichel |
| 2 | Excerpt From Pacific 3-2-1-Zero - Phil Dadson, From Scrarch |
| 3 | Excerpt From Silence The Tongues Of Prophecy - Qubais Reed Ghazala |
| 4 | Luminescence - Jean-Claude Chapuis |
| 5 | Excerpt From In The Beginning: Etude II - Don Buchla, Robert Moog |
| 6 | Chant De L'Orgue A Feu - Michel Moglia |
| 7 | Excerpt From Claycussion - Ward Hartenstein |
| 8 | Excerpt From And On The Seventh Day, Petals Fell In Petaluma - Harry Partch |
| 9 | Shake Up Adina - Sugar Belly |
| 10 | Bamboo Is - Darrel De Vore |
| 11 | The Swan - Clara Rockmore |
| 12 | Terra Zona - Barry Hall, The Burnt Earth |
| 13 | Naiades - Jacque Dudon |
| 14 | Instru-Matics - Ken Butler |
| 15 | Entomological Effervescence - Tom Nunn |
| 16 | Kindred Spirits - Sarah Hopkins |
| 17 | Piccadilly - Robert Grawi |
| 18 | Aquaknots - Susan Rawcliffe |
| 19 | New York, New York - Wendy Mae Chambers |
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Product Description
Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones is a book-and-CD package devoted to new and unheard-of musical instruments. The book, written by Bart Hopkin with an introduction by Tom Waits, is full of irresistible photographs and informative text; the CD is full of great music; every page and every track overflow with ideas and originality. Nineteen of the worlds most interesting and inventive musical instrument makers appear. For more on just what's included here, see the "artist bios" section and the track listing below. [NOTE: this is the abridged re-release of the earlier boxed set of the same title.This abridged version includes everything form the original CD plus one more track. The book, however, is in a smaller format, and while the book in the original version contained sections on all the artists on the CD plus many more, the book in this newer! release covers the artists from the CD only.)
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A pixillated and fascinating piece of work that's at once a sonic surprise and a visual feast. -- Billboard, 1998
A rollicking pool party of a book and CD package! ... entertainment at its finest -- adventurous, warm, honest and throught-provoking. -- Pulse! 1998
Superbly done ... a head-stretcher for the eyes and ears ... -- Stereophile Magaine, 1998
About the Artist
A few examples of who and what's included in this book and CD: The opening track on the CD is Hans Reichels Daxophone a more developed and elegantly crafted version of the ruler held firmly overhanging the edge of the desk, played, in this case, with a bow. Hans gets an incredible circus of sounds from this arrangement with irresistible musical results. Later on the CD, the late Jamaican mento musician Sugarbelly Walker plays his bamboo saxophone with facility, style, passion and joy. Susan Rawcliffe produces strange, frightening and hauntingly beautiful sounds on oddly shaped and acoustically complex ceramic wind instruments inspired by pre-Columbian flutes and whistles. Music and instruments from the great mid-century iconoclast Harry Partch are included, as well as the earlier Theremin, played by the leading virtuoso of its day, Clara Rockmore.
Product details
- Package Dimensions : 5.6 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches; 6.4 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Ellipsis Arts
- Original Release Date : 1998
- Date First Available : February 7, 2007
- Label : Ellipsis Arts
- ASIN : B00000BIII
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #286,006 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,394 in Avant Garde & Free Jazz (CDs & Vinyl)
- #4,774 in Special Interest
- #24,610 in Alternative Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Make sure you get the 1996 edition, because the book discusses more inventors, including ones not included in the CD.
If you like this, check out the book and acompanying CD's entitled Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 1-2
Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music
Alas, "New York, New York" is one of only two or three cuts on the album that can be listened to in an unaltered state of mind. The rest is, well... experimental as promised and confirms why experimental music is not mainstream.
On the other hand, having in your collection a version of "New York, New York" played on the car horn organ is worth every penny of the cost.
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C'est un livret en anglais, dommage qu'il n'ait pas été traduit, accompagné d'un disque...
On pense juste commander un disque et on a un livre grand format dans une grosse boite , c'est bien, mais on ne sait pas ou le ranger. Le disque qui l'accompagne est intéressant et j'en suis satisfait .
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