_:_ D E F _:_ __ | | __ __\/_____|_ _______ _|_____\/__ __.._\_\/ | ____\ \_ | \/_/_..__ \_|| \/ | ______/ /________: \/ ||_/ +-----' :___\__ \___ / /_\ | `-----+ | ...... | / / / / _____| ...... | | : ...:...... | / / ______/ ___/ .....:... : | | :.::.: : | / /__/ | | : :.::.: | | . :: ......:...|___________/ |______|.........:..... :: . | | :: :: : /_____________| : : :: | | : :::::::::: ------------------------------------ ::::::::: : | | . | :: : | . | | | :: Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music : | | | . | :: : | . | | | ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: | | | | ..::.. | | | |__ ___ __ ___ ___ _____ ___________________| |__. | _\_ \_ _\ \_/ / _\ \__\_ \__\ _/__\ \_ | | | |_/ __ /__/ / / /__/ / / /\__ / / / - I N F O - | | | |\ \ \ __/ / ___/ / / / / ___/ | | | | \___\____\____\__/\____\/_____/______/____\_________________| |__| | | | | | | artist: Charlemagne Palestine | | | | album: Strumming Music | | | | label: Aguirre Records / Les Series Shandar | | | | cat num: SSH03 | | | | genre: Avantgarde | | | | year: 2017 | | | | website: N/A | | | | | | | | rls date: 12.2018 | | | | source: Vinyl | | | | quality: VBRkbps / Joint Stereo | | | | tracks: 02 | | | | length: 52:03 | | | | size: 84,12 MB | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------ | | | |__ ___ ___ ___ __ __________________________| |__. |___/ /___\_ \_ _\_ \__/ _/ / /__ _\ __/_ | | | |\_ __/ _ /_/ / / / // /_\__ / - T R A C K S - | | | | / / / / / / /__/ _ / / / | | | | \__/___/____/_____/\____/__/___/_____/______________________| |__| | | | | | | A Strumming Music (Part I) 25:58 | | | | B Strumming Music (Part II) 26:05 | | | | | | | | > total playtime: 52:03 | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------ | | | _|________ ___ ___ __________________________| |__. | \__ _ \_________/ /___\ \__\ __/__ | | | | / / / /_ __/ / /\___ / - N O T E S - | | | | /___/ / / / / / / ____/ / / | | | | | /___/______/ \__/ \___/ \______/____________________| |__| | | | | | | This classic minimal music album is now available | | | | again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s. | | | | | | | | Primed with a glass of cognac Charlemagne Palestine | | | | sits at the keyboard of a Boesendorfer Imperial grand | | | | piano. One foot firmly holds down the sustain pedal | | | | while both hands perform an insistent strum-like | | | | alternation on the keys. Soon Palestine and his | | | | Boesendorfer are enveloped in sound and bathed in a | | | | shimmering haze of multi-coloured overtones. For 45 | | | | minutes this rich pulsating music swells and | | | | intensifies, filling the air. | | | | | | | | When Strumming Music first appeared on the | | | | adventurous French label Shandar during the mid- | | | | 1970s, it seemed a straightforward matter to place | | | | Charlemagne Palestine in the so-called Minimalist | | | | company of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich | | | | and Philip Glass, whose work also featured in the | | | | Shandar catalogue. Palestine too used a deliberately | | | | restricted range of materials and a repetitive | | | | technique, but as he has often pointed out in more | | | | recent times the opulent fullness of his music would | | | | more accurately be described as Maximalist. | | | | | | | | Strumming Music, recorded in Palestine's own loft in | | | | Manhattan, has no written score. In an age of | | | | recorded sound he still feels no need for | | | | traditional notation. The surging energy of this | | | | particular recording stands comparison with the | | | | improvising of jazz visionaries who impressed and | | | | inspired him while living in New York, as a young | | | | man. But, as Palestine himself has made clear, | | | | primarily he brings to music-making the sensibility | | | | of an artist rather than a musician. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although the technique of the piece has roots in | | | | Palestine's daily practice, when a teenager, of | | | | playing the carillon at a church, hammering sonorous | | | | chimes from a rack of tuned bells, it also draws on | | | | his later work as a body artist, staging vigorously | | | | muscular, physically demanding and often reckless | | | | performances. In addition, Strumming Music can be | | | | heard as a sculptural tour de force, while its | | | | textures connect with the colour moods, plastic | | | | rhythms and tactile space of Mark Rothko's Abstract | | | | Expressionist canvases. | | | | | | | | At the time when Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry | | | | Riley were becoming well-respected and widely heard | | | | composers, welcomed in concert halls and opera | | | | houses around the world, Charlemagne Palestine | | | | actually stopped making music altogether. He | | | | relocated to Europe and devoted his creative | | | | energies to the making of stuffed animal sculptures | | | | including the mighty God Bear, three-headed and six | | | | metres high. His involvement with music was revived | | | | and renewed during the 1990s, when younger | | | | generations of musicians and listeners, attuned to | | | | immersive noise and sensual sounds, were | | | | rediscovering Strumming Music and recognising that | | | | Palestine had blazed an idiosyncratic trail into | | | | their emerging world. | | | | | | | | Since then he has returned enthusiastically to | | | | musical performance and his formerly meagre | | | | discography has steadily grown. Still Strumming | | | | Music remains the essential index of Palestine's | | | | singular creative vision. Fundamentally this | | | | fascinating piece is a collaboration between an | | | | artist and an instrument. Palestine had first | | | | encountered the Boesendorfer Imperial back in 1969. | | | | He had already been playing church organs for | | | | several years, relishing their power and presence. | | | | Now he had found a piano that satisfied his need for | | | | sonic depth and weight. "The Boesendorfer at its | | | | best is a very noisy, thick molasses piano," he has | | | | remarked. Charlemagne Palestine embraced its | | | | clinging sonorousness, its clangorous resonance and | | | | out of that embrace came the voluptuous sonic fabric | | | | of Strumming Music. | | | | | | | | "My rhythms are sexual, not machine-like." | | | | Charlemagne Palestine, in 2013. | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------ | | | _|_______ _________ ______________________________| |__. | \_ _ \_\_ \_ \ ______\ ___/__ | | | | / / / / / /_/ /\___ / - N E W S - | | | | /___/ / ____/ / / / / / | | | | | /___/____/ \___/____/_________/________________________| |__| | | | | | | hi2u! go to the show, buy the records, stop whining | | | _|______ ____ ___ __________ ________________________| |__. | \_ ___/__\__ \__\_ \__\_ \_ _/__\ _/__ | | | | / \_ / _ /_ / / / / /\____ / - H E L L O - | | | | \___ / / / __/ ___/ / / / | | | | | /__/__/____/__/ \__/ /__/__________/___________________| |__| | | | | | | 13 1way aeroholics agw bass bcc berc bnp boss ct cmc | | | | d2h ddb diss divinestylers dl dps ethnic fmr fnt fwyh | | | | hit2000 hm hqem hta hushhush i8 impg jazzman kinky kw | | | | maem mbs njs noir nuc nuhs radial sb sever shelter | | | | pyt siberia soup sour sq tr trt usr | | | | | | | | ... thank you for the music and/or the good fun! | | | |_________________________________________________________| |_. | | nfo & design by #MONk!# of diViNE sTYLERS! | | | | _ |---------------------------------------------------------| _ |-' |/ \| |/ \|