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Alvin Curran - Endangered Species | New World Records NW80804

Alvin Curran - Endangered Species

£27.25

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Label: New World Records

Cat No: NW80804

Barcode: 0093228080428

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 25th January 2019

Contents

Artists

Alvin Curran (Yamaha Disklavier)

Artists

Alvin Curran (Yamaha Disklavier)

About

Endangered Species states, restates, correlates, instigates, inflates and deflates, elevates, formulates, disintegrates, interrogates, percolates, granulates, germinates, Kiss Me Kates, Tom Waits, Norman Bates and W.B. Yeats, horripilates, adumbrates, prestidigitates, sophisticates, enumerates, integrates and contraindicates songs from the standard repertoire, Standards they were called.

Old French, Frankish, estendard “place of formation.” If you asked a jazz musician what he played, he’d probably say Standards and Originals. Standards being popular songs from Broadway or Hollywood, Originals being compositions written by the jazz players themselves. They became the catalysts for infinite extended play.... Alvin’s standards rise from an uncodified potential of all the sounds in the world. Recognizable but reformed by what had been worked through the nameless sound fields into a strange new life, now audible here.

- Clark Coolidge (from the liner notes)

The Yamaha Disklavier was the instrument I was waiting for ... a grand piano which allowed me the luxury of playing not just its own hammers and strings but my entire archive of sound-files: a magic act where the whole world becomes audible directly from my finger tips - an 80-proof blend of analogue and digital. The selection of songs on this recording is mostly ballads, slow and easy, leaving me time to think, exit into unverified neighborhoods, begin a piece from the end, enter a spontaneous museum of dysfunctional harmonies, sneak out the back door into the cocktail mists looking for traces of MEV street music in a heap of Pistoletto’s rags. - Alvin Curran

Tracklisting:

CD 1
1. Out of Nowhere
2. (I’m) Confessin’ (that I Love You)
3. Ain’t Misbehavin’
4. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Take 3)
5. Come Rain or Come Shine
6. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
7. Speak Low
8. Arrivederci Roma
9. Tea for Two

CD 2
1. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Take 2)
2. As Time Goes By
3. Georgia On My Mind
4. St. James Infirmary Blues
5. As Time Goes By (final)
6. A Foggy Day (in London Town)
7. Memories of You
8. Just a Gigolo
8. Red River Valley

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