Pousseur, Henri / Electronic Experimental And Microtonal 1953-1999
Album: Electronic Experimental And Microtonal 1953-1999   Collection:Classical
Artist:Pousseur, Henri   Added:Nov 2008
Label:Sub Rosa  

Album Review
Red West
Reviewed 2010-04-27
Modern austere classical from 1953-1999. Interesting stuff, experiments in non-Western scales.

1. Piano hitting random sounding notes all over the keyboard in bursts, but it sounds less random as it goes on, patterns emerge. Good for engaged listening
2. Languid solo cello, slow and slightly middle-eastern sounding perhaps due to the 19-tone scale. (It apparently makes fine fifths.) A piece with spaces.
+3.Could go in a world music show due to the Japanese string instruments being plucked and struck & the shakuhachi. Evocative of its moonlit title.
4. oboe with a buzzy/warbly synth following it, like a solitary critter foraging in the plains, meeting another critter, and then befriending a cow… jumping over the moon…
5.Big organ sound for an alien church’s scary mass. Discordant and disturbing. Call a plumber to fix those pipes!

Track Listing
1. Prospection   3. At Moonlight, Downland's Shadow Passes Along Ginkaku-Ji
2. Racine Dix-Neuvieme De Huit-Quarts   4. Ex Dei In Machinam Memoria
  5. Figures Enlacees