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01. JAMES MCVINNIE - The Revd Mustard his Installation Prelude
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02. JAMES MCVINNIE - Take Care
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03. JAMES MCVINNIE - Follow Up
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04. JAMES MCVINNIE - Slow Twitchy Organs
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05. JAMES MCVINNIE - O Sapientia
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06. JAMES MCVINNIE - O Adonai
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07. JAMES MCVINNIE - O Radix Jesse
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08. JAMES MCVINNIE - O Clavis David
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09. JAMES MCVINNIE - O Oriens
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10. JAMES MCVINNIE - O Rex Gentium
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11. JAMES MCVINNIE - O Emmanuel
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12. JAMES MCVINNIE - Fast Cycles
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13. JAMES MCVINNIE - Beaming Music
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ARTIST
MCVINNIE, JAMES
TITLE
Cycles
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BEDROOM COMMUNITY
CATALOG #
HVALUR 019CD
HVALUR 019CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/20/2013
Cycles
introduces a new artist to the intimate roster that makes up the avant-garde label Bedroom Community:
James McVinnie
. The music on
Cycles
comprises 13 organ pieces by label-mate and composer
Nico Muhly
. Performing the pieces in addition to McVinnie are
Nadia Sirota
,
Chris Thompson
, and
Simon Wall
. What makes McVinnie such an ideal interpreter of Muhly's music is that he and Muhly share not just an understanding of the capabilities of the pipe organ as a musical instrument, but also an equally deep understanding of, and even affection for, its limitations. McVinnie speaks eloquently on behalf of his instrument's potential. "The organ is like a grand symphony orchestra controlled by one person manning a series of keyboards and pedals, stops and buttons. On the one hand, an organ can imitate orchestral instruments -- the ardent string section of an orchestra, a lyrical clarinet, a French horn, timpani -- and on the other, it has its own indigenous magisterial voice. Organs are built to speak into specific acoustic spaces. When you play, it's as if you're playing the whole building you're in, which often can be electrifying." And the organ as an instrument is tied to centuries of liturgical practice, capable of supporting or imitating a church choir with a solemnity few others could hope to summon. McVinnie is quick to point out, however, that the organ is also "the ultimate and original synthesizer" -- and it is nothing if not a mechanical, wind-powered synthesizer, with all of the uncanny falseness that that word implies. The symphonic, the acoustic, the sacred, the synthetic: there's a little of each in every one of the pieces on
Cycles
, and sometimes more than a little.
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