Alarm Will Sound - Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin (2005)

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Artist: Alarm Will Sound
Title: Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Genre: Modern Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:07:56
Total Size: 404 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Cock/Ver 10
2. Logon Rock Witch
3. Meltphace 6
4. Blue Calx
5. Fingerbib
6. Gwely Mernans
7. 4
8. Prep Gwarlek 38
9. Omgyjya Switch 7
10. Cliffs
11. Jynweythek Ylow
12. MT. Saint Michel
13. Avril 14th
14. Prep Gwarlek 38 Remix
15. Cliffs Remix

Performers:
Art Direction, Design – Frank Olinsky
Bassoon – Michael Harley (2)
Celesta, Kalimba [Cocktail Stirrer Kalimba] – Alan Pierson
Cello, Other [Curtain Rods] – Stefan Freund
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Bill Kalinkos
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Beth Stimpert*
Conductor – Alan Pierson
Drums [Drum Set], Percussion, Other [Air Pumps] – Jason Treuting
Drums [Drum Set], Percussion, Other [Plastic Tubing] – Lawson White
Electric Bass, Double Bass [Upright Bass], Other [Engraving Tool] – Miles Brown (3)
Electric Guitar, Percussion – Evan Hause
Engineer [Assistant At Right Track Recording] – Timmy Olmstead
Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo Flute, Other [Curtain Rods] – Jessica Johnson
Horn, Other [Horsoon, Hose Horn], Jew's Harp – Matt Marks
Mixed By – Caleb Shreve, Charles Harbutt, John Hill (14), Lawson White
Oboe, English Horn – Jackie Leclair*
Percussion, Other [Curtain Rods], Mbira – Peter Wise
Percussion, Steel Drums – Payton MacDonald
Performer – Alarm Will Sound
Piano, Celesta, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – John Orfe
Remix – Dennis DeSantis
Trombone – James Hirschfeld
Trumpet, Other [Duck Call] – Jason Price
Viola, Accordion – John Pickford Richards
Violin, Piano, Voice – Courtney Orlando
Violin, Viola, Voice, Piano, Other [Water Hose] – Caleb Burhans
Voice, Tambura, Other [Curtain Rods] – Martha Cluver

Blurring the boundaries between classical and popular music may not be much of a new idea anymore, but there are still artists who can make it sound fresh and exciting. Alarm Will Sound is one of them, and the ensemble's latest project represents a significant jump in ambition from its musically impressive but conceptually safe all-Reich debut. For Acoustica the group chose 13 compositions by the well-respected electronica artist Aphex Twin (aka Richard James) and re-created them as closely as possible using only acoustic and electric (as opposed to electronic) instruments -- violins, clarinets, celesta, oboe, trombone, electric guitar, etc. (Two compositions are featured twice, once in live performance and once in remixed versions by Berlin-based producer Dennis DeSantis.) While the arrangers' ability to re-create all of the melodic elements of James' complex compositions is impressive enough, even more so is the ability of the various drummers to replicate his speed-of-light breakbeats in a live setting. Most of the time, when you put popular music into a classical setting you just end up exposing the fact that beyond the bluster, there isn't much there there (remember the symphonic Metallica experiment?). With the music of Aphex Twin, just the opposite occurs -- you hear more clearly how much is going on in his strange and wonderful pieces, and it makes you want to go back to the original versions and listen to them again with new ears. Very highly recommended.

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