Eighth Blackbird: Hand Eye
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Label: Cedille Records
Cat No: CDR90000162
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 1st April 2016
Contents
Artists
Eighth BlackbirdWorks
Checkered ShadeSouth Catalina
Cast
By-By Huey
Conduit
Mine, Mime, Meme
Artists
Eighth BlackbirdAbout
The new-music sextet joins forces with Sleeping Giant, six young American composers “rapidly gaining notice for their daring innovations, stylistic range and acute attention to instrumental nuance” (WQXR Radio). The result is an album of world-premiere recordings of works written for Eighth Blackbird and inspired by stunning pieces of contemporary art.
In Timo Andres’s Checkered Shade, the aural perspective zooms out as musical fragments coalesce into an expressive chorale. Andrew Norman’s Mine, Mime, Meme places the cellist in a sonic space where the other instrumentalists mimic his playing. Robert Honstein’s three-movement Conduit takes its cue from an interactive digital sculpture pulsing with colours and the world of touch-screen electronic devices. Christopher Cerrone’s South Catalina reflects both an audio-responsive interactive light sculpture and the composer’s discomfort with Southern California’s perpetual sunshine. Ted Hearn’s By-By Huey is a soul-infused jam session. Jacob Cooper’s Cast assembles an array of distinctive musical gestures around a vibraphone line.
Reviews
Though minimalism – Reich and Adams more than Glass – seems to be a common starting point for all six composers, and they move unselfconsciously between purely diatonic and much more complex, heavily chromatic textures, their musical personalities seem markedly different and sharply contrasted. Some of the music, such as Cerrone’s South Catalina, is bright, shiny, outgoing; other pieces, such as Hearne’s By-By Huey, are darker and more conflicted. As a snapshot of what one group among the younger generation of US composers is doing, it’s encouraging and revealing. Andrew Clements
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