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Artist......: Richard Carr
Album.......: Over the Ridge
Label.......: Neuma Records
Genre.......: Classical
Catnr.......: Neuma146
Source......: CDR
Rip.date....: 2023-02-27
Str.date....: 2021-08-26
Quality.....: 554 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://richardcarrviolinist.bandcamp.com
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1. Processional 5:52
2. Narrow Traverse 2:37
3. Early Departure 6:26
4. Slow, Calm, Deliberate 2:12
5. Terrace Dancing 3:54
6. Celestial Navigation 6:36
7. Dawn Crossing 3:15
8. Fulton Avenue Bus 4:00
9. Funiculare 4:50
10. Over the Ridge 4:43
11. Wally Goes to Bali 5:42
12. Westside Docks 2:19
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\ / ________ Runtime 52:26
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,: For me, and every other musician I know, there was a lot of down :,
: time during 2020. This afforded me the opportunity to undertake :
:' the laborious task of writing notes on a page; a return to ':
,: notated music after a couple of decades of producing mostly :,
: improvised and digitally composed works. After six months of :
:' being hermetically sealed in Covid lockdown, I had twelve ':
,: pieces for string quartet; each of them about five minutes in :,
: length. :
:' ':
,: Scores in hand, I contacted the violist and composer Caleb :,
: Burhans (best known for his work with Alarm Will Sound) whose :
:' work I greatly admire. He responded enthusiastically and ended ':
,: up being helpful in editing scores and parts, as well as :,
: assembling a quartet of young, hip, killer string players that :
:' included violinists Laura Lutzke, and Ravenna Lipchik, along ':
,: with the extraordinary cellist, Clarice Jensen. :,
: :
:' Although these folks arenÆt a named and famous string quartet, ':
,: they have played together with the composer Max Richter, and :,
: also with the ACME ensemble. :
:' ':
,: As I already knew, these guys werenÆt strangers to the :,
: possibility of improvisation. As a result, I was able to join :
:' them in the group improvisations (Narrow Traverse; Slow, Calm, ':
,: Deliberate; Dawn Crossing; and Westside Docks) that make up four :,
: of the tracks. The other eight tracks are from the group of :
:' twelve that were composed during the lockdown of 2020. YouÆll ':
,: have to wait for the next release to hear the other four. :,
: :
:' The music in this album, be it written or improvised, was ':
,: created by a process of emergent structure; like riding up to :,
: the ridge and deciding which way to go when you get to the other :
:' side. Structure came from process rather than the other way ':
,: around. In the case of the eight written string quartets :,
: (Processional, Early Departure, Terrace Dancing, Celestial :
:' Navigation, Fulton Avenue Bus, Funiculare, Over the Ridge, and ':
,: Wally Goes to Bali) I wrote each piece by culling just a bar or :,
: two out of hundreds that were left on the cutting room floor. :
:' This select group of notes would then become the cell from ':
,: which each composition grew. There was never a pre-determined :,
: form only the chrysalis of the musical cell to guide the way. :
:' The music progresses in a manner that morphs slowly from one ':
,: thing to the next. :,
: :
:' Likewise, the improvisations each progressed and morphed from a ':
,: single idea contributed by each member of the group. With the :,
: wrong group of musicians this process could be a lot like :
:' jumping off a cliff but with the right ones itÆs more like ':
,: engaging in a playful but erudite conversation. - RC :,
: :
:' Richard Carr has been some kind of musician for last ':
,: forty-some-odd years. This included work with big orchestras, :,
: and small ensembles. He played classical with the Boston :
:' Philharmonic, jazz with everyone from Milt Hinton, to Bucky ':
,: Pizzarelli, to Karl Berger, and Fred Frith. He has recorded :,
: dozens of albums starting way back in the golden age of vinyl. :
:' He studied composition with Donald Martino, Jonathan Kramer and ':
,: many others who are curious to see whatÆs over the ridge. :,
: :
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