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Artist:	CURRAN, ALVIN
Title:	Inner Cities
Label:	LONG DISTANCE (FRANCE)
Format:	4CD
Price:	$80.00
Catalog #:	LONG 560304

Performed by Daan Vandewalle (piano), 4 hours, 24 minutes worth. "Alvin Curran's music-making embraces all the contradictions (composed/improvises, tonal/atonal, maximal/minimal) in a serene dialectical encounter. His more than 100 works feature taped/sampled natural sounds, piano, synthesizers, computers, violin, percussion, shofar, ship horns, accordion and chorus. Whether in the intimate form of his well-known solo performances, or pure chamber music, experimental radio works or large-scale site-specific sound environments and installations, all forge a very personal language from all the languages through dedicated research and recombinant invention. The composer says of Inner Cities, 'This music is open, unhurried, brutally lyrical, quiet, private, and tonal as it is raucous, aggressively impolite and obsessively meticulous in making the simple relations between tones and durations an unending adventure of personal wonder. My goal, as always, was to reduce the musical elements to their ultimate essences, to repudiate and embrace dualism, and to emulate, even in permanent notation, the feel of spontaneous music-making.'"

Artist:	KHAN, ASIF ALI
Title:	Mazarana
Label:	LONG DISTANCE (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	LONG 590105

"A captivating album of Qawaali by one of the most promising singers to emerge in Pakistan since the passing of the master, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Asif Ali Khan is not related to Nusrat but did study with him. He comes from a long line of qawwals and is a grandson of the legendary Santoo Khan. The expressive clarity of his voice, brilliant inventiveness and authentic sincerity to the Sufi tradition mark him out as a valuable new name in Qawwali."

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