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Bang On A Can All-Stars - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (2011) 2CDs

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Bang On A Can All-Stars - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (2011) 2CDs

Bang On A Can All-Stars - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (2011) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 519 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 234 Mb | Scans included
Label: Cantaloupe Music | # CA21074 | Data (video) ~ 68 Mb
Genre: Classical, Avant-Garde, Minimalism, Chamber Music, Jazz | Time: 01:29:57

With Big Beautiful Dark and Scary, the Bang on a Can All-Stars show off their blazing speed, polyrhythmic virtuosity and all-world versatility in a return to the core Bang on a Can sound - an uncategorizable supermix of classical and electric instruments that is part classical ensemble, part rock band, and part jazz sextet. The album is the first in a decade that features the All-Stars exclusively, rather than as part of a collaborative project. Each of the pieces on the double-CD calls upon a different kind of virtuosity, demonstrating the range of musical abilities and experiences arguably unique to this ensemble. Recorded in New York City, all of the music on Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (including the arrangements of the works by Conlon Nancarrow) were written for and premiered by the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

This release marks the 25th anniversary of the New York mostly percussion ensemble Bang On A Can (the All-Stars mentioned here include collaborators like clarinetist-composer Evan Ziporyn). The group's lasting popularity and influence are further attested to by the more than 5,000 memories the band received after offering free downloads from the album to anyone who sent them one. This double-album set might serve the curious as an introduction to Bang On A Can, which fearlessly proclaimed the connectedness of musical traditions generally thought to be separate when it came on the scene in the late 1980s. Ziporyn's Music from Shadow Bang reflects the composer's study of Indonesian percussion traditions. David Longstreth's cheekily titled Instructional Video, Matt Damon, and Breakfast at J&M reflect the interface between Bang On A Can and the world of alternative rock, while kinetic pieces by Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon hark back to the group's "downtown" origins. A piece by Louis Andriessen shows the group's ability to take on a more severe modernist idiom, while Conlon Nancarrow's Four Player Piano Studies, arranged by Ziporyn, put a new, non-mechanistic spin on those works. All these pieces coexist cheerfully, and the sheer range of the group's expertise and enthusiasms ensures the music is anything but boring. A good place to start with this group, which seems likely to notch a second quarter century of performing and recording.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

Bang On A Can at Allmusic
Bang On A Can Wiki

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Julia Wolfe - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (08:46)
02. David Lang - Sunray (10:13)
03. Michael Gordon - For Madeline (07:54)
04. Evan Ziporyn - Shadowbang - Angkat (03:02)
05. Evan Ziporyn - Shadowbang - Ocean (04:10)
06. Evan Ziporyn - Shadowbang - Meditasi, Head (06:01)

CD2:

01. David Longstreth - Instructional Video (01:51)
02. David Longstreth - Matt Damon (04:20)
03. David Longstreth - Breakfast at J&M (01:53)
04. Conlon Nancarrow - Four Player Piano Studies - Study 2a (03:59)
05. Conlon Nancarrow - Four Player Piano Studies - Study 3a (04:40)
06. Conlon Nancarrow - Four Player Piano Studies - Study 3c (03:24)
07. Conlon Nancarrow - Four Player Piano Studies - Study 11 (03:31)
08. Louis Andriessen - Life - Part I: Wind (05:01)
09. Louis Andriessen - Life - Part II: Couple (04:33)
10. Louis Andriessen - Life - Part III: In the distance (01:28)
11. Louis Andriessen - Life - Part IV: Light (02:07)
12. Kate Moore - Ridgeway (12:55)


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