New Arrivals/Restock

Title: Brink
Artist: Meridian Arts Ensemble
Label: Channel Classics
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 723385232063
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2006-08-08
Number of Discs: 1

Meridian's 8th album for Channel Classics features incredible music by David Sanford, Nick Didkovsky and Elliott Sharp. This CD is packed with the things that Meridian does best: complicated, virtuosic, high-energy, bizarre versions of music that is more informed by the vernacular than the conservatory. 'On this disc, we present three commissioned pieces, each of which we hope will become a major contribution to the literature. For a long time, we have wanted to design concert programs with just a few large scale works, each of which developed it's ideas fully. Now the repertoire is growing, and we are on the brink of something new. All three of these pieces draw on various styles of music available to today's listener, from free improvisation in a densely notated art-rock setting to evocations of African vocal polyphony, from oblique references to 1970's television themes to the rhythms and intonations of a sermonizing preacher. Yet each piece creates it's own unique style and language. We recorded this CD in the Doopsgezinde Kerk in the town square of Deventer, Holland, in a large pedestrian plaza referred to locally as Brink.'

Tracks:
1.1 Corpus - Antiphon
1.2 Corpus - Introit
1.3 Corpus - Shot
1.4 Corpus - Krez/Männer
1.5 Corpus - de Profundis
1.6 Corpus - Sermon
1.7 Beyond the Curve
1.8 Steamier Sinner Blamed
1.9 An Idle Saint Remembers
1.10 Terrible As Mean Denims
1.11 Meanie Master Blinders
1.12 Beastler Madmen Risen
1.13 Mere Brains Is Lamented
1.14 Miserable Sinner Mated
1.15 Denser Mealtime Brains
1.16 Last Inane Dismemberer
1.17 Remedial, Eminent Brass
1.18 Manliest Base Reminder
1.19 Able, Saner Determinism
1.20 A Mean, Dim Terribleness
1.21 Steamier Limb Ensnared
1.22 Merriest, Blamed, Insane