Welch, Matthew / Luminosity
Album:Luminosity Collection:General
Artist:Welch, Matthew Added:Nov 2009
Label:Porter Records 

A-File Activity
Add Date:2010-01-17 Pull Date:2010-03-21 Charts:Classical/Experimental
Week Ending:Mar 7Feb 28Feb 14Feb 7Jan 31Jan 24
Airplays:112524

Recent Airplay
1.Feb 25, 2011:Pajama Power Hour
Bagpipe Quintet
4.Feb 12, 2010:Memory Select - Tom Djll of Grosse Abfahrt
Bagpipe Quintet
2.Mar 06, 2010:Music Casserole
Hadinotra Chelalhodin (For Baritone, Solo Cello And Orchestra)
5.Feb 12, 2010:The Sultry Poo Story
Blues For Seraut
3.Feb 23, 2010:The Gumdrop Poo Train
Symphony Of Drones #1, [-(+/-)] For Three Bagpipes
6.Feb 06, 2010:Friday Night Pizza
Hadinotra Chelalhodin (For Baritone, Solo Cello And Orchestra)

Album Review
Barbra Anne
Reviewed 2010-01-19 
Matthew Welch
Luminosity
Bagpipes! Yes. Really. Other instruments are here too, but the bagpipe tracks are where it’s at. (super) old school drone.
FCC clean
Try 1, 6, 7


1. (4:25) unified bagpipe drone. Sort of starts to sound strained after a while. Very offputting, very strange. Sounds like it could be about a thousand ‘pipes going at once.
2. (21:07) sparse, quiet, alice-in-wonderland dreamy harp tickle. could work well with Monroe Golden’s microtonal keyboard stuff. Really really slow. Gets a little skittish after minute 18.
3. (2:53) dynamic, woven, threaded bagpipe duet.
4. (9:41)Lush cello meadow, goofy-as-fuck vocals. Has an odd eastern feel too it.
5. (5:31) bagpipe trio goes big, doesn’t go home.
6. (22:37) bursts of psychotic and messy orchestra rehearsal warm ups. Not as droney as the title would have you believe.
7. (4:15) probably the best bagpipe pick of the set. A cleaner, higher, sweeter sound.

Track Listing
1.Blues For Seraut 4.Hadinotra Chelalhodin (For Baritone, Solo Cello And Orchestra)
2.Self/Non-Self And Luminosity In The Bardo (A Concerto For Harp And Ensemble) 5.[-(+/-)] For Three Bagpipes
3.Duo-El (For Two Bagpipes) 6.Symphony Of Drones #1
 7.Bagpipe Quintet