Sam Cave - Refracted Resonance: Contemporary Music for Guitar (2019)

Tracklist
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01. Tellur
02. Guitar Sonata No. 1
03. Chile
04. Guitar Sonata No. 2
05. Subconscious Wave, Op. 58
06. Refracted Meditation III

Sam Cave writes in the album notes: 'For every note the guitar can play there are an infinite number of tone colours waiting to be coaxed from its body.' This is demonstrated very well in this collection of very new works, which extend the tone palette of the guitar in many ways, from the still, almost mantra-like Refracted Meditation III by the performer, to complex and thickly-textured works by Fox and Murail, two distinctive sonatas by George Holloway and the almost alien soundworld conjured up by Horatiu Radulescu in the only work which introduces electronics (taped sounds) alongside the pure acoustics of the guitar. The contrast between Cave’s sparse, single line interspersed with gentle chords, and Murail’s transfer of spectral cluster technique, is exceptional.

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