ARTIST: So Percussion
TITLE: Amid the Noise
LABEL: Cantaloupe Music
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 197kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 52m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-10-10
RIP DATE: 2006-11-04
Track List
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1. June 3:45
2. White 3:56
3. Work Slow Life 3:35
4. May 3:44
5. September 4:11
6. Go 6:55
7. What The Hell 4:43
8. Old 2:29
9. Fire Escapes 3:48
10. July 3:52
11. March 6:31
12. February 4:40
Release Notes:
Note: Previous rip was nuked as a re-encode. Enjoy this proper CDDA release.
So is: Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Lawson White
There was a line, and So Percussion crossed it. They'd never been just another
modern performance ensemble anyway. Following two acclaimed albums of rigorous
music by modern master Steve Reich and even-more-modern masters David Lang and
Evan Ziporyn, as well as ongoing collaborations with hepcat Bj÷rk producers
Matmos, the 20-something quartet has discovered a bold new voice: their own.
Called "astonishing and entrancing" by Billboard, "brilliant" by the New York
Times, the discovery is perfectly appropriate. Coming together in the green
pastures of New Haven, at Yale's graduate program, So Percussion was created to
give fresh voice to what co-founder Jason Treuting calls "funky contemporary
music." Devoted to the conceptual dreamscapes of Reich, Iannis Xenakis, John
Cage, and others, So established a disciplined work ethic, learning pieces whole
-- memorized and absorbed -- instead of merely read. In performance, music
stands were jettisoned for a stunning live dynamic. A blind call to Bang on a
Can founder David Lang yielded a commission. Called "a must-hear" by Billboard,
their self-titled debut featured Lang's "the so-called laws of nature."
In 2004, realizing Steve Reich's nine-part "Drumming" as a quartet, they made
one small step for music, one radical step for a percussion group: they
overdubbed -- and to great success. Having explored the past, in the form of
Reich's classics, and the present, in the form of Lang and Ziporyn's freshest,
it was time for S? to start exploring the future.
In that vein, their newest CD/DVD Amid the Noise began as an after-hours
project. Eager to expand their palette, So members Treuting, Adam Sliwinski, and
Lawson White experimented with glockenspiel, toy piano, vibraphones, bowed
marimba, melodica, tuned and prepared pipes, metals, a wayward ethernet port,
and all kinds of sound programming. The resulting idiosyncratic tone
explorations were synchronized to Jenise TreutingÆs haunting films of street
scenes in Manhattan and Tokyo.