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01. Leif Elggren - Royal Organ
02. Z'ev - If Only That Love Lets Letting Happen
03. Philip Jeck - Stops
04. Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - Details Of A New Discovery
05. Zephyr - Untitled
06. Marcus Davidson - Organ Psalm V
07. Scott Minor / Fennesz - Dwan
08. Finnbogi Petursson - Diabolus
09. Biosphere - Visible Invisble
10. Toshiya Tsunoda - Layered
11. Tom Recchion - Shut-Eye Train
12. Lary Seven & Jeff Peterson - Disorganised
01. BJ Nilsen - Breathe
02. Scott Taylor - Droner
03. Jacob Kirkegaard - Epiludio Patetico
04. Oren Ambarchi & Tom Recchion - Remake
05. Chris Watson - Askam Wind Cluster
ARTIST
TITLE
Spire - Organ Works Past Present & Future
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TONE 020CD TONE 020CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/22/2003

"The thought of producing a compilation where the tracks were all either inspired by or more directly influenced by the organ had been frequently aired over the years. The conversations were always animated and expansive. The organ works of Arvo Pärt, those performed by Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, a pupil of Richard Rodney Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and others, have reached a wider non-classical audience. Eventually Benny Nilsen arranged to visit St. Mary's Church, Warwick and work with one of England's finest, Charles Matthews. Crawling around inside the instrument, positioning microphones most appropriately in the Church, or 'capturing' the psalms composed by Marcus Davidson, Nilsen explored the possibilities with all the familiar lust of the avant-garde. As the brief widened, so did the responses... some contributors referred to earlier versions of the organ and its often highly political usage, others explored aged instruments themselves. Some studied the effects of the sounds produced on the physique and the psyche, others conceptualized the brief and either built their own or recorded natural or man-made phenomena which utilized the same basic process, wind through pipes. The organ represents the marriage between acoustic complexity and ritualized space. It is impossible not to be drawn upward, towards the spire of the church or cathedral, or to the huge and daunting forest of pipes themselves. The organ dwarfs all comers, and unlike other instruments, it is this non-musical element which makes the organ stand apart."