Soldier, Dave / Chamber Music
Album: Chamber Music   Collection:General
Artist:Soldier, Dave   Added:Jan 2007
Label:Mulatta Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-07-01 Pull Date: 2007-09-02
Week Ending: Aug 5 Jul 22
Airplays: 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 02, 2007: Emphysema For Emphasis
Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1, Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 2 Fuelgen, Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1, Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 1 Jordan
3. Jul 20, 2007: Memory Select
East St. Louis, 1968
2. Jul 21, 2007: Cognitive Overload
East St. Louis, 1968

Album Review
mufaor
Reviewed 2007-07-12
A wide range of Soldier’s chamber music – the guy who did the music for Komar and Melamid’s People’s Choice Music, the Thai Elephant Orchestra, and the cd of kids making hip hop. Most compositions are structurally free, flowing, though some are surprisingly boring and mediocre.

Disc 1:
1. Mellow. Plucking, laid back classical-sounding, bluegrassy and asian. Great lines.
2. Slow. Close, almost dissonant harmonies.
*3. Syncopated blues and scritchy scratching. Looser than the previous movements, freely changing.
*4. Funk sounds, viola, samples of kids on a playground?, orchestral stuff... all twisted together, collage-like. Is a man meowing at the beginning?? Harmonica toward the end.
5-9 Solo jazz sax, sounds stiff, tired. Syncopated. 6 is singsongy and catchy, and 9 has some Phillip Glass-like repetitive loops that are nice. Oh I get it I guess - there's a concept - a baroque dance suite that incorporates North American powwow dances.
*10. Accordion, chirping birds, silly electronics, samples.
11. Solo bass flute - very quiet, kinda jazzy.


Disc 2:
*1. Soulful violin/piano duet. Slow, classical/jazz, pretty melodies, some dischordant chords – mellow but tense.
2. Slow dance, beautiful albeit almost confusing rhythmic play, somehow like Philip Glass. A little boring/flat. Last minute+ very long held chords.
*3. Square dance-y, unique, goofy accordion and sometimes dissonant.
4-9. Harspichord, cello, violin – great ostinatos, short.
4. Slow lilting waltz, would be nice interlude.
5. Arioso – minor, songlike violin.
6. Whimsical, bluesy, nice harpsichord.
*7. Repetitive, driving, fast.
8. Light dance, mid-fast.
9. Drawn out dissonant chords, very slow.
10-21. Short organ pieces. Not much to differentiate them. Somewhere between baroque, serialist, and free jazz.

Track Listing
1. Duo Sonata: Reverie   17. Clever Hans: Rancy Shawl
2. Duo Sonata: Lent: Scordatura   18. Clever Hans: Mazurka
3. Duo Sonata: Tribute: Electrica   19. Clever Hans: Minuet
4. East St. Louis, 1968   20. Clever Hans: Melancholia
5. Utah Dances: Jig   21. Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 1 Jordan
6. Utah Dances: Fugue In One Voice   22. Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1
7. Utah Dances: Cortijo   23. Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 2 Fuelgen
8. Utah Dances: Allemande   24. Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1
9. Forty-Niner And Double   25. Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 3 Neville
10. To Spike Jones In Heaven   26. Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1
11. Little Andre   27. Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 4 Otto
12. The Unfolding Opium Poppy   28. Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1
13. Sontag In Sarajevo: Fluor, Phosphor, Lumen & Candle   29. Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 5 Roscoe
14. Sontag In Sarajevo: Dance For The Tertrammaton   30. Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1
15. Clever Hans: Waltz   31. Hockets & Inventions: Hocket 6 Resolution
16. Clever Hans: Arioso   32. Hockets & Inventions: Invention 1