Track Listings (2) - Disc #1| All Artists: Pauline Oliveros Title: Primordial / Lift Members Wishing: 4 Total Copies: 0 Label: Table of Elements Release Date: 3/4/2003 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rock Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 600401053126 |
Member $avings: $4,427,254.02
|
CDs Available: 88,036
|
Members Online: 15
Your source for swapping cds online... Listen...Swap...Save!
Search - Pauline Oliveros :: Primordial / Lift
 | Pauline Oliveros Primordial / Lift Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rock
The musical output of Pauline Oliveros has centered around "deep listening"--the mesmerizing sounds of long notes with plenty of sustain and subtle, slight variations. The accordion is the perfect tool for her hypnotic com... more » |
Larger Image |
CD DetailsSynopsis
Amazon.com The musical output of Pauline Oliveros has centered around "deep listening"--the mesmerizing sounds of long notes with plenty of sustain and subtle, slight variations. The accordion is the perfect tool for her hypnotic compositions, but on Primordial Lift, she increases the instrumentation to include electric violin, cello, harmonium, and oscillator, and she collaborates with an all-star cast of New Music's elite (Tony Conrad, David Grubbs). The results are entrancing, to say the least. The 14-minute long "Primordial" flutters and drones with enough instrumentation changes to keep things interesting. But on the longer "Lift," the music changes more organically, with sonics that ebb against haunting vocals, keyboard and violin solos, and a sense of imminent crescendo that never actually hits you. It's hypnotic in the way that only Oliveros can be, and it's one of her finest compositions to date. For all the abrasion here, there's plenty of subtlety, too. --Jason Verlinde Similar CDs
Similarly Requested CDs
|
CD ReviewsDeep Drone Paul Inez | San Francisco, CA USA | 08/15/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Mesmerizing, deep, deep drone from a long standing and always inspired crafter of the primordial tone. Seeing Oliveros perform at the First Existentialist Congregation in the city of Atlanta was one of those moments which stops time; pure isolation, sound as all consuming force-bubble. On this album, with the help of Tony Conrad and David Grubbs, among others, she achieves that perfect sound forever, although a bit more angular and edgy than some of her previous work, due in large part to Mr. Conrad's gloriously physical violin work. The detail presented here is unreal: infinite micro-soundscapes reeling in the joy of the continuous, transcendental singular." 2 versions exist. Info for collectors, mainly: Igor Savtchenko | Long Beach, CA United States | 05/07/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "If you are familiar with the work of Oliveros, this will be a good addition to your collection of her sounds... For collectors: two version exist of this recording. I don't know why Amazon didn't create a separate entry for the two items. The cover you see her is of the first, shorter, version, released on Table of Elements label. That record rather quickly went out of print, having been released in 2001 or something... Now, the record was re-issued on Oliveros' own label, Deep Listening, and contains the entire live session in 70-something minutes, giving it an extra 30 minutes of music not found of the initial release. Having bought the reissue first, then having found someone selling the first version under this cover, thought I'd buy it to complete my collection. But no, I received the same thing. I did end up buying the original at a music store. I don't know... Just thought I'd point this out for those interested...."
|
