: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Alex Eddington : Album.......: A Present from a Small Distant World : : Label.......: Redshift Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Classical : Catnr.......: TK483 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2021-03-12 Str.date....: 2021-02-19 Quality.....: 256kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.alexeddington.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. A Present From a Small Distant World 3:37 2. Sonnet XVIII 5:15 3. HELIOSPHERE 1:41 4. Time Will Erase 20:06 5. TERMINATION SHOCK 1:35 6. Dennis Lee Songs 9:56 7. HELIOSHEATH 2:44 8. The Stolen Child 12:59 9. HELIOPAUSE 2:07 10. Scintillator 6:20 11. INTERSTELLAR / To the Makers of Music 2:58 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 69:18 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 129.64______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Toronto composer Alex Eddington's unorthodox debut album A :, : Present from a Small Distant World is many different things all : :' at once. Sometimes dark, sometimes downright silly, certain ': ,: moments bear a resemblance to traditional art song, whereas on :, : other occasions Eddington unfurls strange synthetic textures. : :' Its uncharacteristically broad aesthetic reach is matched by ': ,: its temporal span. Traversing ù and often revisiting ù music :, : from the past 18 years, it serves as a portrait of his close : :' collaborative relationship with soprano Kristin ': ,: Mueller-Heaslip, who plays a number of different protagonists :, : throughout the album. : :' ': ,: While its nearly two-decade coverage accounts for a certain :, : amount of the album's gleeful heterogeneity, this can also be : :' attributed to its underlying inspiration, which is revealed in ': ,: the opening cut. There a faded-xerox-choir of Mueller-Heaslips :, : intones Jimmy Carter's 1977 speech that launched the Voyager : :' spacecraft and its so-called Golden Recordùa phonographic disc ': ,: containing an encyclopedic dog's breakfast of earthly texts, :, : images, and musicùinto space. "The chances that an alien : :' civilization will intercept and decode the record are not ': ,: high," explains Eddington, "but there is something wonderful :, : about sending greetings hurtling outward." : :' ': ,: Of course, A Present from a Small Distant World makes no :, : pretenses of being as ambitious or all-encompassing as its : :' golden counterpart. Its relationship to it lies more in this ': ,: spirit of interstellar benevolence; the ramifications of putting :, : a document of one's world out into the unknown. That being said, : :' Eddington has managed to cram quite a bit of information onto ': ,: this disc. Shakespeare receives a forlorn solitary voice :, : treatment, whereas the titular beloved children's author is cast : :' as a set of feverish genre-hopping cabaret songs on Eddington's ': ,: celebrated Dennis Lee Songs. His episodic treatment of Yeats :, : lunges between slow, hovering minimalism and moments of perverse : :' word-painting. Time Will Erase (featuring a text authored by ': ,: Mueller-Heaslip) is billed as a chamber opera for soprano and :, : alto saxophone and draws upon Eddington's background as a : :' playwright and actor to spin richness from its spartan ': ,: resources (andùcruciallyùsilence.) Its libretto, authored by :, : Mueller-Heaslip frames a poem written by its subject, Russian : :' poet Anna Akhmatova. Scintillator's gibberish text, on the ': ,: other hand was excavated from Eddington's spam folder. :, : Mueller-Heaslip imbues it with maximum urgency, her intensity : :' only magnified by searing electronic effects that Eddington ': ,: integrated for this recording. INTERSTELLAR / To the Makers of :, : Music, continues this electronic trajectory, and offers the : :' culmination of the brief and cryptic miniatures scattered ': ,: throughout the album. Where Eddington's scores for these short :, : guitar-and-electronics interjections are collages of chopped- : :' up morse code and Bach, the grainy synthesized sound foreshadow ': ,: his recent move toward noisier terrain. Meanwhile as the album :, : concludes the aforementioned multi-tracked chorus of Kristins : :' returns atop the electric furries and gnarly guitar to sing the ': ,: words etched onto the Golden :, : Record itself, "To the makers of music: all worlds, all times." : :' (Nick Storring) ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 1 \/