アンディ・アキホ、デイヴィッド・クローウェル、他

アメリカの若手打楽器アンサンブルによる1枚

アメリカの若手音楽家4人が集まり2011年に結成された打楽器アンサンブル「サンドボックス・パーカッション」による、COVIELLOレーベルへのデビュー・アルバムです。彼らの信条は作品を委嘱した作曲家との長期的かつ密接なコラボレーション。作曲家がアンサンブルに参加する曲もあり、9年間の濃密な活動が実を結び出来上がった充実のアルバムです。
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Percussionists are an eclectic-minded group, often open to both world traditions and contemporary experimentation. This set of recent pieces by the group Sandbox Percussion benefits from the ensembles close collaborations with the composers involved; all four works here were written for the present performers. All of the pieces might be said to be of most interest to those who follow new percussion music, but this said, they are a rather diverse group. Andy Akihos Haiku 2 employs shifting repeated patterns, evocative of African or Indonesian traditions, that may bring Steve Reichs percussion music to mind, also embodying a haiku-like rhythmic structure. David Crowells Music for Percussion Quartet (featuring the composer on guitar) organizes each of its four movements around an unusual sonority, evocative of a specific environment. Perhaps the highlight is Amy Beth Kirstens she is a myth, with the composers voice added in a multitracked trio that sets a short text inspired by the Don Quixote story; the piece has a compelling programmatic aspect. Thomas Kotcheffs three-movement not only that one but that one & that too, which gives the album its title, explores minimal textures and showcases the fine engineering work, in two different locations, of the Coviello Classics label. This is a group of new percussion pieces any listener may enjoy.