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Artist:
FOX, JIM
Title:
Last Things
Label:
COLD BLUE MUSIC
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
CB 001CD
"The Cold Blue label was started by Jim Fox in the early 1980s -- in the days of vinyl. Early releases were by Peter Garland, James Tenney, Ingram Marshall, Harold Budd, etc. By the time of its demise a few years later, Cold Blue was recognized by many new-music critics as a label with a unique focus -- particularly West Coast minimalism and post-minimalism. Jim Fox is a LA-based composer of instrumental and electro-acoustic music. 'The Copy of the Drawing' is a sectional, non-dramatic, serpentine soundscape charged with a certain abstract mysteriousness -- it overlays, chains, and weaves a whispering voice with strands of nonverbal, pitched sound. The text is built of fragments -- sentences, phrases, and individual words -- from twenty-three letters addressed to the scientists at Mt. Wilson Observatory between 1915 and 1935. 'Last Things', scored for bass clarinet, pedal steel guitar, piano, and electronic keyboards, is somewhat of a rhapsodic call and response between bass clarinet and pedal steel guitar, constructed of seven connected sections (or songs) that over the length of the piece slowly build in intensity."
Artist:
FOX, JIM
Title:
The City the Wind Swept Away
Label:
COLD BLUE MUSIC
Format:
CD
Price:
$8.00
Catalog #:
CB 015CD
"A haunting music for trombones, strings and piano. A fragile music of rarefied and quietly rumbling harmonies that, like drifting clouds, seem to float in and out of 'view.' A music that is both motionless and moving forward with a strange sense of inevitability. (23 minutes)"
Artist:
FOX, JIM
Title:
Descansos, past
Label:
COLD BLUE MUSIC
Format:
CD
Price:
$8.00
Catalog #:
CB 021CD
"
Descansos, past
is moody, intimate 'in memoriam' music for double bass (performed by Barry Newton) and a choir of nine cellos led by new-music-champion cellist Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick."
Descansos, past
inhabits the same haunted soundscape as Fox's 2004 release,
The City The Wind Swept Away
-- the unconventional scoring (pizzicato bass and nine bowed cellos) produces a sort of lush bleakness that evokes the windswept open spaces of the American West. Perhaps
Descansos
evokes the strange roadside memorials that gave Fox his title, but to these Eastern ears, it is reminiscent of the brooding lyricism of England's Gavin Bryars. This is a music that seems to linger even after the recording itself has ended."
-- John Schaefer. 15 minute EP.
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