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Artist | Joanna Brouk
Title | Hearing Music
Genre | Ambient Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 126:55
Label | Numero Group Store | 2016
Catalog | NUM069 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 214 kbps Size | 200.69 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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CD 1/2
01. Going Through The Veil: Becoming A Swan 14:40
02. Lifting Off 2:54
03. Mary's Watch Part One 6:39
04. Mary's Watch Part Two 4:41
05. Mary's Watch Part Three 5:24
06. Mary's Watch Part Four 4:20
07. Fire Breath 7:34
08. The Creative 8:25
CD 2/2
01. The Space Between 21:54
02. Majesty Suites: Entrance Of The Queen Of Winter Dawn 8:31
03. Invocation 0:36
04. Atavesta 3:28
05. Playing In The Water 3:11
06. Aurora 5:09
07. Diving Deep, Remembering Love 5:34
08. Going To Sleep 2:17
09. The Reminder Of Long Ago 4:54
10. The Nymph Rising, Calling The Sailor 4:37
11. First Meeting 5:09
12. Touching The Sky 5:04
13. The Sounding 0:52
14. Return To The Deep 1:02
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California-based Joanna Brouk composed slow, sparse works intended
for meditation and reflection, utilizing acoustic instruments,
vintage synthesizers, field recordings, and the human voice. Her
music was inspired by classical minimalism, but it was embraced by
the burgeoning new age movement during the 1980s. Born in St. Louis,
Missouri in 1949, Brouk moved to Berkeley, California in 1970 to
study literature. Inspired by the cadences of poetry and the human
voice, as well as the rhythms and soundings of nature, she began
creating music. She spent numerous hours experimenting with
synthesizers at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
in Oakland, and studied under the tutelage of avant-garde legends
Robert Ashley and Terry Riley. Her music was introduced to radio
listeners in October 1972, when she appeared on KPFA's contemporary
music program Ode to Gravity.
"Hearing Music" is a double-disc anthology of recordings by Brouk.
Her five self-released cassettes bore titles like "Healing Music"
and "The Healing Touch", and it's easy to hear why her recordings
were embraced by the burgeoning new age movement in the 80s.
However, her drone-based music seems far more in tune with the ideas
of avant-garde composers like Robert Ashley and Terry Riley (both of
whom Brouk studied with) than the cloying mysticism that new age
became associated with as it became more commercial. Many of her
compositions seem sparse, concentrating on acoustic instruments like
piano or flute, but they contain detailed, hypnotic arrangements
which mirror the rhythms of the earth.
"Going Through The Veil: Becoming A Swan" highlights Brouk's
graceful, delicate piano notes, while "Lifting Off" and "Mary's
Watch" features Maggi Payne's dynamic flute playing, as well as its
resonant echoes. The anthology includes a few previously unissued
works by Brouk, including the stunning "Fire Breath", which features
wild, expansive synthesizer manipulations, hinting at a somewhat
darker, fiercer side of her work. "The Creative" blends solemn
synthesizer melodies with slowly paced gong peals, recalling Pauline
Oliveros' pioneering deep listening concept in addition to
prefiguring ambient gong experiments by Thomas K≈ner during the 90s.
"Hearing Music's" double-CD issue contains the entirety of Brouk's
most fully realized recording, the 1981 concept album "Sounds Of The
Sea". The release incorporates the sounds of dolphins into its
reverb-heavy flute meditations, but the album's second half takes
things into a more eerie direction, as it highlights wailing
wordless vocals over barely-there droning. Strange, haunting, and
subliminal, it edges on being too unsettling to fit the new age
description. "Hearing Music" is an enlightening, often fascinating
compendium of works by a visionary composer who placed intense
concentration on isolated aspects of our surroundings, resulting in
simple yet resoundingly deep music.
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