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GOSFIELD, A.: Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers / Brooklyn, October 5, 1941 (Moore)

Composer(s):Gosfield, Annie
Artist(s)
Period(s) Contemporary
Genre Classical Music
Category Instrumental
Catalogue CA-21061
Label Cantaloupe Music
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   



Annie Gosfield/Lightning Slingers/Brooklyn/ Lisa Moore /Cantaloupe
Review By mm119339,December 2011

Annie Gosfield is NYC resident bad girl /punk/eccentric-the Eric Satie of the Hudson river (it’s the closest I can come up with). Free of the various clichéd paths of minimalism and post minimalist schools, Annie truly has her own sound that is distinct in the first couple of measures. (Just in case you thought there was no minimalist repetition, there’s a ton in the looping electronics).

The major cut on this CD is called ’Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers’ pitting piano against electronics, played by the uber-talented Lisa Moore. At once, there’s a circus-like, celebratory nature to Annie’s writing –child-like, naive and always playful. But underneath the actual content is fairly rigorous in it’s motivic working out and structural integrity.

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Review By Jayson Greene, Pitchfork,February 2012

[Lisa Moore is] the best kind of contemporary classical musician, one so fearsomely game that she inspires composers to offer her their most wildly unplayable ideas. She can play them all.

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