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Disseminate
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| Artist: Phill Niblock |
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| Label: Mode |
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Regular Price: $14.95
On Sale For: $13.47 |
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| Year: 2004 |
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Though Phill Niblock's music could sound like an immobile granite block to ignorant ears, it's instead one of the best representations of the incessantness of vital tides: its sound flowing like blood in veins, its dissonant beating frequencies pumping like constant heartbeats bringing ear pressure in some cases; its final result, at least in my own perception system, is that I breathe deep and slow, my muscles losing any tension. In an exceptionally prolific moment of his career, Niblock establishes here a partnership with musicians approaching materials with passion and competence, seaming together drone upon drone of elongated acoustic - and sampled - textures. "Disseminate Ostrava" and "Disseminate Q-O2", two different versions of the same piece (the first recorded live with Petr Kotik conducting) show how the human element can bring out the most hidden sprinkles in the score, resulting in a holomorphic wall of contradicting pitches showing the only way to an infinite bliss. "Kontradictionaires", written for contrabass flute, sax and tuba - all three instruments - and masterfully played by the Kontra-Trio, is classical Niblock wrapping the listener in a cocoon of low ranging notes that, under the guise of menace, create instead the most protective barrier against anything not desirable, being them sounds, thoughts or else. It's good knowing that this man exists and it's even better thinking about an artistic vision that at 70-plus years is still inquisitive and purely interested in basic forms, like if he were a little kid. "Disseminate" is meant to be played often and it's as a beautiful release as you can hope for.
--- Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes, April 2004 |
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ARTISTS
Disseminate Ostrava (1998) (22:18)
Ensemble OCNM with members of the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra
Petr Kotik, conductor
Kontradictionaries (1999, rev. 2003) (22:13)
The Kontra-Trio
Madeleine Bischof, contrabass flute
Thomas K.J. Mejer, contrabass saxophone
Leo Bachmann, contrabass tuba
Written for Kontra-Trio
Disseminate Q-O2 (1998) (22:09)
the Q-O2 Ensemble, Brussels
Julia Eckhardt, viola; Claire Goldfarb, cello; Lucio Capece, bass clarinet and soprano sax; Elke Tierens, flute; Roel Avondts, trombone |
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