Alvin Curran - Solo Works: The 70s | New World Records NW80713

Alvin Curran - Solo Works: The 70s

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Label: New World Records

Cat No: NW80713

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Release Date: 17th January 2011

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This historic collection gathers together the four seminal solo albums recorded by Alvin Curran (b. 1938) in the 1970s.

Two - Fiori Chiari Fiori Oscuri and The Works - are making their first appearance on CD. Author/critic Tim Page, an early advocate of these works, writes: “Curran weaves electronic technology, an occasional acoustic instrument, voices and musique concrète (“found” music) into a multi-hued tapestry of sound. He holds these dissimilar elements together with a compelling subliminal musical consciousness; the listener never feels that Curran is deliberately being clever, or that he is out to impress, shock or self-consciously ‘expand the musical language.’ Curran’s eclecticism is not willful; his sounds are there because they fit, and they convey a subtle and ingratiating sense of mysticism. These challenging, multi-faceted compositions manage, through their very catholicity, to synthesize and perfect a striking new musical syntax uniquely Curran’s own.

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