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Catherine Marie Charlton
Strange Attractors
Genres: Jazz, New Age, Classical

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. The Moods of Mocha: Chocolate Steam
2. The Moods of Mocha: outta sight, daddy-o
3. The Moods of Mocha: The Invisible Mockingbird
4. The Moods of Mocha: one cup too many
5. The Dreams of Sarah
6. Instability in the Phase Plane: Part One: Transient Seams
7. Instability in the Phase Plane: Part Two: The Asymptote
8. Instability in the Phase Plane: Part Three: Strange Attractors
9. Die Sonne scheint, die V?gel singen
10. A Celestial Story: Gallic Moon
11. A Celestial Story: Latin Sun
12. Fuzzy Boundaries
13. Sholoshea
14. Thanatopsis

CD Details

All Artists: Catherine Marie Charlton
Title: Strange Attractors
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Orange Moon Productions, Inc.
Original Release Date: 8/1/1995
Re-Release Date: 12/9/1999
Genres: Jazz, New Age, Classical
Style: Jazz Fusion
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 680162808821

Synopsis

Album Description

Catherine Marie Charlton's music can be described as a fusion of classical, new age, and jazz piano. "Strange Attractors," her debut release, is a compilation of piano improvisations, which weave through her original frameworks of mood, musical thoughts, melodies, and rhythms. Most of the tracks on the CD were recorded live in concert, and paint a surprisingly wide range of pictures, from the frenetic over-caffeinated musings of 'one cup too many' to the sweeping emotional tide of 'The Asymptote'. The evident influences upon these piano originals are varied, ranging from George Winston's elegant manipulation of tonal relationships to Claude Debussy's impressionistic, aural snapshots. Also apparent are traces of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's compositional techniques based on geometric structures and his fascination with "open forms" derived not from a melodic phrase, but from a particular mood.

CD Reviews

A suprising discovery

Matthew | Virginia | 12/11/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I took notice of Ms. Charlton's music years ago, when she was still a student at Cornell accumulating national prizes and magazine articles for her original music, not to mention her skill as an engineer. I weas lucky enough to see an article about her (in another state, I might add), followed up on some of the press, and bought a copy of this CD, which very quickly went on heavy rotation on my stereo. This woman is clearly a gifted pianist, but instead of applying her talent into the classical or jazz concert scene, she seems to have poured it into her own inventive and evocative compositions. They are quite original--sometimes as complex as the mathematics that inspired them, sometimes as resonant and melodic as love itself. Liz Story and George Winston get credit in the liner notes, and it's clear that their influence on her was more than superficial. If there's more where this came from, then before too long she'll be mentioned in THEIR liner notes too."