a r t i s t : Rhys Chatham
t i t l e : Die Donnergoetter
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Table Of The Elements
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2006
t r a c k s : 05
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 102,9 MB
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At first glance, New York-born composer Rhys Chatham might
have seemed unlikely to alter the DNA of rock. A classically
trained musician, Chatham was piano tuner to Glenn Gould and
La Monte Young, student of Young and Morton Subotnick,
protΘgΘe of Tony Conrad, and in 1971, while still in his
teens, founder of the highly influential experimental music
program at the Kitchen in lower Manhattan. Nevertheless, it
was Rhys Chatham who first applied multiple electric guitars
to the extended-duration, overtone-drenched minimalism of the
1960s. This amalgamation ù of the intellectual experimentalism
and textural sophistication of the avant-garde with the
rhythmic brashness and visceral punch of punk rock ù produced
a raucous, ecstatic new type of urban music that energized the
downtown New York scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, a
music whose influence can be heard in the subsequent work of
the many luminaries who participated in Chatham's ensembles,
including Glenn Branca and members of Sonic Youth, Mars, Band
of Susans and Swans.
A comprehensive 3-disc retrospective, An Angel Moves Too Fast
to See includes all of Chatham's major "minimal" pieces,
ranging from the thunderous "Two Gongs" (1971) and the No-Wave
tumult of "Guitar Trio" (1977) to the brass-based "Massacre on
MacDougal Street" (1982) and the epic, previously unreleased
"An Angel Moves Too Fast to See" (1989), scored for an
orchestra of 100 electric guitars. The accompanying 140-page
book features dozens of never-before-published photos plus
essays by Chatham, Tony Conrad and Lee Ranaldo and artwork by
famed visual artist Robert Longo. Together they present a
portrait of a city and a milieu where, for a moment, the raw,
the sophisticated, the meditative and the danceable merged.
"Rhys Chatham's music is too loud and too exciting to be
academic. The excitement's partly physical ù from high volume
and a rock and roll beat ù and partly intellectual: Chatham's
fusion of rock and new music is so uncompromising, so elegant,
so simple, and still so new that it takes my breath away."
ù Gregory Sandow, Village Voice
"Then it came, the first chord. For a moment you forgot you
ever had a name and came from somewhere; this was louder than
anything you had ever heard, louder than you had prepared
yourself for, and there was no reality other than this. You
dangled in a tidal wave of sound."
ù London Daily Telegraph
"Black and Decker classical."
ù Guitar Player (US)
(http://www.rhyschatham.com/home.html)
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01-Die Donnergoetter (1985/86) [21:48]
02-Waterloo, No. 2 (1986) [07:57]
03-Drastic Classicism (1982) [07:49]
04-Guitar Trio (1977) [08:11]
05-Massacre on MacDougal Street (1982) [18:42]
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