Andrew Pekler: Cue
Cue
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Kranky, 2007
- Bestellnummer: 5137646
- Erscheinungstermin: 7.5.2007
Cue is not an attempt to re-create, re-imagine or re-contextualize library music of past eras. It is not a post-modern exercise in citation, juxtaposition or collage. The attempt to re-create the "style" of library music would be pointless anyway as the music found on library records does not adhere to any distinct stylistic or aesthetic formula. Instead, library music can be defined by the formal constraints pertaining to its mode of production and it is the appropriation and application of these same constraints that have enabled and inspired Andrew Pekler to produce the music for this album. Cue sounds very little like it's predecessors, and Pekler's method of production; starting from short expository phrases setting forth a track's instrumentation, mood and development (reproduced on the back cover) and attempting to construct the pieces to fit this very specific criteria. It's a fertile middle ground between the micro-managed jazz miniatures of his 2004 breakthrough record Nocturnes, False Dawns & Breakdowns and the expansive improvisations of 2005's Strings & Feedback. On the whole it is a vibrant, playful album with the occasional sombre passage providing some contrast to th...
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 On
- 2 Roomsound
- 3 Pensive Boogie
- 4 Steady State
- 5 Rockslide
- 6 Dust Mite
- 7 Vertical Gardens
- 8 Dim Star
- 9 Contact
- 10 Mote
- 11 Floating Tone