Search - Lesli Dalaba, Amy Denio :: Timelines

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Timothy Nelms | 01/29/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album, the work of an all-female quintet, is excellent, if fairly obscure. The concept behind it -- an attempt to portray musically the entire history of our world and solar system -- is the kind of absurd ambition that frankly makes life worth living (if you're one of those people who thinks life is worth living). Sometimes they seem to me to be intentionaly subverting their own purpose -- why does "From the Birth of the Sun" begin with what sounds for all the world like dripping water?



I know next to nothing about Dalaba herself, aside from what Piero Scaruffi tells me. About this particular album, incidentally, Scaruffi said it "reinvents music as both a cathartic experience and a social experience", and that the quintet "crafts abstract instrumental interplays that challenge the dogmas of both jazz jamming and classical chamber music". Sounds like an endorsement to me."