Browse by Artist: COX, RICK

Artist:	COX, RICK
Title:	Maria Falling Away
Label:	COLD BLUE MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CB 006CD

"This CD brings together six of Rick Cox's elegantly sparse, dark, sensuous, vaguely desolate soundscapes in which emotions seem to bubble just below cool surfaces (tracing a history of his work from 1990 through 2001). Most of these pieces display Cox's subtle, idiosyncratic electric guitar playing techniques, which sometimes employ preparations placed amid the strings (similar to those utilized in prepared piano works) and the use of such objects as sponges and brushes and glass lab slides to set the instrument's strings in motion. (Cox has been developing these techniques since the early 1970s.) These works also highlight Cox's ear for unusual and interesting harmonies. Featured performers: Jon Hassell, Thomas Newman, Jeff Elmassian, Chas Smith."

Artist:	COX, RICK
Title:	Fade
Label:	COLD BLUE MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	CB 020CD

Performed by Rick Cox (electric guitar), Thomas Newman (piano) & Peter Freeman (bass and signal processors). "In three connected sections, Fade offers a series of harmonic 'moments' of various densities and complexities and timbres and lengths. Throughout the work, these moments, like elements in a mobile, are in a constant state of changing perspective. Rick Cox is also a skilled multi-instrumentalist whom guitarist/composer Ry Cooder called 'the hidden master of the crepuscular and the diaphanous.' Cox was an early explorer/developer of 'prepared electric guitar' techniques. His concert pieces, which often employ himself (electric guitar, woodwinds, and/or electronics) in the company of other instrumentalists, have been performed throughout the U.S. and recorded on the Cold Blue, Grenadilla, Advance, and Raptoria Caam labels." 25 minute EP.

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