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: Artist......: Alex Eddington
: Album.......: A Present from a Small Distant World :
: Label.......: Redshift Records .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Classical :
Catnr.......: TK483 .
' Source......: CD ,
; Rip.date....: 2021-03-12
Str.date....: 2021-02-19
Quality.....: 256kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
.:. Url.........: http://www.alexeddington.com '
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1. A Present From a Small Distant World 3:37
2. Sonnet XVIII 5:15
3. HELIOSPHERE 1:41
4. Time Will Erase 20:06
5. TERMINATION SHOCK 1:35
6. Dennis Lee Songs 9:56
7. HELIOSHEATH 2:44
8. The Stolen Child 12:59
9. HELIOPAUSE 2:07
10. Scintillator 6:20
11. INTERSTELLAR / To the Makers of Music 2:58
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,: Toronto composer Alex Eddington's unorthodox debut album A :,
: Present from a Small Distant World is many different things all :
:' at once. Sometimes dark, sometimes downright silly, certain ':
,: moments bear a resemblance to traditional art song, whereas on :,
: other occasions Eddington unfurls strange synthetic textures. :
:' Its uncharacteristically broad aesthetic reach is matched by ':
,: its temporal span. Traversing ù and often revisiting ù music :,
: from the past 18 years, it serves as a portrait of his close :
:' collaborative relationship with soprano Kristin ':
,: Mueller-Heaslip, who plays a number of different protagonists :,
: throughout the album. :
:' ':
,: While its nearly two-decade coverage accounts for a certain :,
: amount of the album's gleeful heterogeneity, this can also be :
:' attributed to its underlying inspiration, which is revealed in ':
,: the opening cut. There a faded-xerox-choir of Mueller-Heaslips :,
: intones Jimmy Carter's 1977 speech that launched the Voyager :
:' spacecraft and its so-called Golden Recordùa phonographic disc ':
,: containing an encyclopedic dog's breakfast of earthly texts, :,
: images, and musicùinto space. "The chances that an alien :
:' civilization will intercept and decode the record are not ':
,: high," explains Eddington, "but there is something wonderful :,
: about sending greetings hurtling outward." :
:' ':
,: Of course, A Present from a Small Distant World makes no :,
: pretenses of being as ambitious or all-encompassing as its :
:' golden counterpart. Its relationship to it lies more in this ':
,: spirit of interstellar benevolence; the ramifications of putting :,
: a document of one's world out into the unknown. That being said, :
:' Eddington has managed to cram quite a bit of information onto ':
,: this disc. Shakespeare receives a forlorn solitary voice :,
: treatment, whereas the titular beloved children's author is cast :
:' as a set of feverish genre-hopping cabaret songs on Eddington's ':
,: celebrated Dennis Lee Songs. His episodic treatment of Yeats :,
: lunges between slow, hovering minimalism and moments of perverse :
:' word-painting. Time Will Erase (featuring a text authored by ':
,: Mueller-Heaslip) is billed as a chamber opera for soprano and :,
: alto saxophone and draws upon Eddington's background as a :
:' playwright and actor to spin richness from its spartan ':
,: resources (andùcruciallyùsilence.) Its libretto, authored by :,
: Mueller-Heaslip frames a poem written by its subject, Russian :
:' poet Anna Akhmatova. Scintillator's gibberish text, on the ':
,: other hand was excavated from Eddington's spam folder. :,
: Mueller-Heaslip imbues it with maximum urgency, her intensity :
:' only magnified by searing electronic effects that Eddington ':
,: integrated for this recording. INTERSTELLAR / To the Makers of :,
: Music, continues this electronic trajectory, and offers the :
:' culmination of the brief and cryptic miniatures scattered ':
,: throughout the album. Where Eddington's scores for these short :,
: guitar-and-electronics interjections are collages of chopped- :
:' up morse code and Bach, the grainy synthesized sound foreshadow ':
,: his recent move toward noisier terrain. Meanwhile as the album :,
: concludes the aforementioned multi-tracked chorus of Kristins :
:' returns atop the electric furries and gnarly guitar to sing the ':
,: words etched onto the Golden :,
: Record itself, "To the makers of music: all worlds, all times." :
:' (Nick Storring) ':
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