Browse by Artist: COLEMAN, ANTHONY

Artist:	COLEMAN, ANTHONY
Title:	Lapidation
Label:	NEW WORLD RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NW 80593CD

"The music of Anthony Coleman (b. 1955) draws from so many varied, disparate, and even contradictory sources, yet still emerges with a distinctly singular and consistent voice. Listening to any of the five works on this CD -- 'Lapidation' (2002), 'East Orange' (2007), 'I Diet On Cod' (2007), 'Mise En Abīme' (1997), 'The King Of Kabay' (1988) -- is to enter into a particular world, highly specific in material but nearly hallucinatory in formal development. The music starts, becomes linear, suspends, goes vertical, goes backward, goes forward, produces vague memories, and ends. This recording is a compelling portrait of one of the most original, literate, and versatile musicians working today. As one might imagine would be the case with a composer who has spent many years working in many improvising bands as both a leader and side person, there is a strong element of collaboration in Coleman's music. Several musicians on this recording (most notably Doug Wieselman, Marty Ehrlich, Jim Pugliese, and Joseph Kubera) have worked with him for several decades and the individual "sounds" of each of these outstanding musicians have contributed to his palette and voice. This is, in many ways, very similar to the way Ellington (a primary influence) worked with and was shaped by members of his band. In looking at the scores of Coleman's music (all of which are clearly and fully notated) one can hear the transformation on the recording of the written music into the living sound. The effect of the individual musicians who play his music is palpable and an essential part of each of these compositions."

Artist:	COLEMAN, ANTHONY
Title:	Selfhaters
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7110

Coleman (organ, piano, sampler, voice, tbn, accordion), James Pugliese (perc., tp), Doug Wieselman (cl), Michael Attias (cl, as, bs), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello, banjo), David Krakauer (bcl), Roy Nathanson (cl, ss). "...a masterpiece two years in the making, charting the darker realms of the Jewish experience. Essential listening for anyone who has ever suffered the pains of alienation and rejections -- or wants to!" Gorgeous jazz-drone from Coleman's group the Selfhaters (sometime in the more extended Selfhaters Orchestra mode). Composers such as Feldman, Ellington, Scelsi, Kagel and the Art Ensemble are all thanked in the notes and you can hear their various influences in the way these guys build slowly languishing reed lines and wrap them around your head.

Artist:	COLEMAN, ANTHONY
Title:	Pushy Blueness
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 8024

"One of the mainstays of the New York avant-garde since 1978, Anthony Coleman has worked with every major name in the downtown scene and more. A brilliant player, composer and critical thinker, his projects are some of the most consistently interesting and radical around. Long overdue, this CD of classically-based chamber works sheds new light on this misunderstood musical master, and contains intimate solo pieces and large ensemble compositions that will stimulate, delight and confuse even the most experienced listener."

Artist:	COLEMAN, ANTHONY
Title:	Shmutsige Magnaten: Coleman Plays Geburtig
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 8106

"Master of madness, wandering poet, dysfunctional genius Anthony Coleman in a magical evening of songs by acclaimed Yiddish composer Mordechai Gebirtig, whose haunting lyrics and melodies became some of the most beloved and popular songs of their time. He was not to survive the Holocaust. Recorded live at midnight in the oldest synagogue of Kracow, Poland, a few steps away from Gebirtig's birthplace, Anthony's masterful readings capture all the awe and mystery of this legendary giant of Jewish Culture. Drawing parallels to the work of Kafka, Bruno Schultz and other Jewish figures of the time this is music at times poignant, at times frightening." Coleman: piano, voice.

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