| Rolnick, Neil / Extended Family |
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| Album: | Extended Family | Collection: | Classical | |
| Artist: | Rolnick, Neil | Added: | Apr 2011 | |
| Label: | Innova Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-06-26 | Pull Date: | 2011-08-28 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Aug 21 | Jul 24 | Jul 17 | Jul 10 | Jul 3 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 17, 2011: | Memory Select The Gene Pool | 4. | Jul 06, 2011: | consummate classical Loss | |
| 2. | Jul 22, 2011: | Songs: Cantan Mono Prelude | 5. | Jul 06, 2011: | Grace Siblings, The Gene Pool | |
| 3. | Jul 13, 2011: | Grace Cousins & Uncles & Aunts | 6. | Jul 01, 2011: | Songs: Cantan Faith |
| Album Review |
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| Red West Reviewed 2011-06-21 | ||
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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). | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | The Gene Pool | 4. | Loss | |||
| 2. | Siblings | 5. | The Gathering | |||
| 3. | Cousins & Uncles & Aunts | 6. | Faith | |||
| 7. | Mono Prelude | |||||