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Eric Richards - The Bells Themselves | New World Records 806732

Eric Richards - The Bells Themselves

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Label: New World Records

Cat No: 806732

Barcode: 0093228067320

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 11th February 2008

Contents

Works

Richards
final bells (2002–04)

Richards
time’s racing (2000)

Richards
My Great-aunt Julia (1993)

Richards
Conch Music (1983–84)

Richards
harte’s bels (2001)

Richards
The Bells Themselves: Jonathan Edwards and the American Songbook (1997–99)

Richards
Chicken Pull (1989-92)

Works

Richards
final bells (2002–04)

Richards
time’s racing (2000)

Richards
My Great-aunt Julia (1993)

Richards
Conch Music (1983–84)

Richards
harte’s bels (2001)

Richards
The Bells Themselves: Jonathan Edwards and the American Songbook (1997–99)

Richards
Chicken Pull (1989-92)

About

Few composers today explore so poetic and visionary a musical landscape as Eric Richards (born 1935). Richards has been composing, in his own unassuming way, for more than forty years. The works included on this recording span the latter half of that time period (roughly 1983–2003).
 
Richards creates his sound world from a collage of musical fragments, saturating the musical time canvas with various nuances and shades of instrumental color. Through the juxtaposition and superimposition of different facets of the same instrumental material (in different tempi, played backwards, in different patterns of repetition, and at various levels of transposition), he creates a multilayered composite sonority—one single enlarged and magnified instrumental entity. His approach is not unlike the technique of assemblage practiced by the surrealist painters. 
 
The majority of compositions on this compact disc recording exhibit timbral saturation and, as such, emanate from a single instrumental sound source (11 oboes, 72 clarinets, 5 voices, 3 pianos). A single performer using multi-track recording techniques is featured on each of the individual compositions. Many of these compositions depict different perspectives, facets and planes of instrumental sound as they simultaneously evolve in different time planes. This is manifested in the simultaneous layering of contrasting and often unrelated dimensions of time and memory within a single composition. When listening to Richards’ music, one often has the sense of being dislocated in time.

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