Rolnick, Neil / Extended Family
Album: | Extended Family | Collection: | Classical | |
Artist: | Rolnick, Neil | Added: | Apr 2011 | |
Label: | Innova Recordings |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2011-06-26 | Pull Date: | 2011-08-28 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
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Week Ending: | Aug 21 | Jul 24 | Jul 17 | Jul 10 | Jul 3 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Aug 17, 2011: | Memory Select
The Gene Pool |
4. | Jul 06, 2011: | consummate classical
Loss |
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2. | Jul 22, 2011: | Songs: Cantan
Mono Prelude |
5. | Jul 06, 2011: | Grace
Siblings, The Gene Pool |
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3. | Jul 13, 2011: | Grace
Cousins & Uncles & Aunts |
6. | Jul 01, 2011: | Songs: Cantan
Faith |
Album Review
Red West
Reviewed 2011-06-21
Reviewed 2011-06-21
Three modern-classical pieces. String quartet tracks 1-5 all acoustic, no studio trickery or extended playing, melodic even if dissonance is frequently employed. Track 6 is a journey through several styles of piano, with a little bit of computer composition accompaniment. Track 7 is a spoken word + effect mashup with the artist relating a disconcerting health issue dispassionately.
+1. An insistent pattern of angular harmonies and melodic snippets, played by string quartet.
+2.Gentle, tentative. Instruments play solo and then together.
3.Pleasant bits interspersed with agitated bits.
+4.Old wise lamenting cello, lyrical violin, eulogizing viola.
5. Slightly dissonant, mid-fast, gets more dissonant
+6.Piano piece with synth accompaniment. Starts off boogie-woogie with fat buzzy bass accompaniment, turns to Peanuts-like jazz and layers on, turns expansive, turns jittery, turns minimalist- keeps flowing from style to style. A good piano showpiece with computer accompaniment for color. For 24 mins, you won’t be bored
+7. swirling tones like sci-fi tinnitus with composer talking about losing hearing in one ear. It’s processed so at times the speech repeats and blends in to goofy 8-bit tunes, which in turn mimic the speech. Listen to how your senses decay. (This is part 1 of a larger performance involving more stories & personnel than here).
+1. An insistent pattern of angular harmonies and melodic snippets, played by string quartet.
+2.Gentle, tentative. Instruments play solo and then together.
3.Pleasant bits interspersed with agitated bits.
+4.Old wise lamenting cello, lyrical violin, eulogizing viola.
5. Slightly dissonant, mid-fast, gets more dissonant
+6.Piano piece with synth accompaniment. Starts off boogie-woogie with fat buzzy bass accompaniment, turns to Peanuts-like jazz and layers on, turns expansive, turns jittery, turns minimalist- keeps flowing from style to style. A good piano showpiece with computer accompaniment for color. For 24 mins, you won’t be bored
+7. swirling tones like sci-fi tinnitus with composer talking about losing hearing in one ear. It’s processed so at times the speech repeats and blends in to goofy 8-bit tunes, which in turn mimic the speech. Listen to how your senses decay. (This is part 1 of a larger performance involving more stories & personnel than here).
Track Listing
1. | The Gene Pool | 4. | Loss | |||
2. | Siblings | 5. | The Gathering | |||
3. | Cousins & Uncles & Aunts | 6. | Faith | |||
7. | Mono Prelude |