News From Babel : Sirens and silences/Work Resumed on the tower/Letters home
News From Babel
Sirens and silences/Work Resumed on the tower/Letters home
label: ReR Recommended
ref: ReR NFB1/2/3
players: Lindsay Cooper (bassoon, sopranino, alto saxes, keyboards), Chris Cutler (drums, electrics, percussion, Zeena Parkins (harp, electric and prepared harp, accordion, e-bow guitar), Dagmar Krause, Robert Wyatt, Sally Potter, Phil Minton (voice), Bill Giolonis (bass, guitar), Georgina Born (bass).
A recording that seems to illustrate a transitional period between the experimental ethos of the 70s and a series of multi-stylistic pop collages emerged in the following decade. Previous issues, such as the interaction of instrumental ostinati, freer forms and a more experimental use of electric sound eventually give way to straightforward song forms. Meanwhile, new concerns with rhythmic structures, motifs and poetry are thoroughly explored, while previous, contemporary influenced melodic ideas take on a new expressive dimension through a cabaret-Brecht-cum-Weil aesthetics.
Una grabacin que parece ilustrar un periodo de transicin entre el ethos experimental de los 70 y diversos collages pop surgidos en la siguiente dcada. Intereses previos, como la interaccin de ostinatos instrumentales, formas ms libres y un uso experimental del sonido elctrico dar paso a formas cancin ms convencionales. Mientras, se exploran a fondo nuevas cuestiones relativas a estructuras rtmicas, el uso de motivos y poemas, al tiempo que ideas meldicas anteriores, de influencia contempornea, adquieren una nueva dimensin expresiva mediante la incorporacin de una esttica cabaret a lo Brecht/Weil.
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