Wolfe / Blankenburg / Filiano- An Inventory of Damaged Goods (CD)
The music of Richard Cameron-Wolfe is not intrinsically abstract, instead residing in various realms of non-abstraction - each composition's seed-ideas emanating from an extra-musical impulse. Here we find, for example, psychodrama (three micro-operas), sound-portraits (Inventory, Lilith), esoteric symbolism, and ritual processes - all articulated in macro- and micro-structures based on the irrational elasticity of the prime-number series. The repertoire of this release brings together musicians from New York City and Los Angeles - eight outstanding performing artists with a deep understanding of contemporary music styles, vocabularies, and rhetoric. In addition, Cameron-Wolfe's long-time friend, the distinguished actor Kevin Kline, makes a special "under the radar" guest appearance as poet-narrator in the micro-opera Sound-Shroud.
Tracklist:
- An Inventory Of Damaged Goods: I. Tortuous Path - II. Le Roi Subaquatique - III. Anomaly I "As Above"
- An Inventory Of Damaged Goods: IV. Anomaly II - V. Vertigo - VI. Anomaly III "So Below"
- An Inventory Of Damaged Goods: VII. Autopoiesis
- Memarie
- Invocations Of The Aetherwind
- Mute Hand Muse "For A Waking Dreamer"
- Prima Materia
- Kyrie II
- Lilith
- A Sound-Shroud For Bill Knott
- A Song Built From Fire
The music of Richard Cameron-Wolfe is not intrinsically abstract, instead residing in various realms of non-abstraction - each composition's seed-ideas emanating from an extra-musical impulse. Here we find, for example, psychodrama (three micro-operas), sound-portraits (Inventory, Lilith), esoteric symbolism, and ritual processes - all articulated in macro- and micro-structures based on the irrational elasticity of the prime-number series. The repertoire of this release brings together musicians from New York City and Los Angeles - eight outstanding performing artists with a deep understanding of contemporary music styles, vocabularies, and rhetoric. In addition, Cameron-Wolfe's long-time friend, the distinguished actor Kevin Kline, makes a special "under the radar" guest appearance as poet-narrator in the micro-opera Sound-Shroud.
Tracklist:
- An Inventory Of Damaged Goods: I. Tortuous Path - II. Le Roi Subaquatique - III. Anomaly I "As Above"
- An Inventory Of Damaged Goods: IV. Anomaly II - V. Vertigo - VI. Anomaly III "So Below"
- An Inventory Of Damaged Goods: VII. Autopoiesis
- Memarie
- Invocations Of The Aetherwind
- Mute Hand Muse "For A Waking Dreamer"
- Prima Materia
- Kyrie II
- Lilith
- A Sound-Shroud For Bill Knott
- A Song Built From Fire