Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Propellers in Love (1994)
Artist: Arnold Dreyblatt, The Orchestra Of Excited Strings
Title: Propellers in Love
Year Of Release: 1988/1994
Label: hat ART CD
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 52 min
Total Size: 244 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Arnold Dreyblatt has been called “the most rock ‘n’ roll of all the composers to emerge from New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s.” Dreyblatt founded The Orchestra Of Excited Strings in 1979, harnessing unusual tuning intervals to an exuberant performance style.Title: Propellers in Love
Year Of Release: 1988/1994
Label: hat ART CD
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 52 min
Total Size: 244 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
"Propellers In Love, the Orchestra’s second album – originally released in 1986 on the Stasch imprint, in conjunction with the contemporary art space Künstlerhaus Bethanien – develops Dreyblatt’s rhythmically exacting exploration of the glittering resonances and overtones generated by an ensemble of uniquely-altered stringed instruments and drums.
On Propellers In Love, simple song titles – “Odd & Even,” “Harmonics,” “Bowing” – belie intricate harmonic structures. Dreyblatt’s modified instruments – a contrabass and miniature piano fitted with piano wire along with violin, all tuned in just intonation – undergo the Orchestra’s rapid, staccato attacks. Sparkling timbres dance above interlocking rhythmic patterns moored by sparse yet propulsive percussion (“Pedal Tone Dance” and the title track). Throughout, the Orchestra’s perpetual motion achieves a tremulous and exquisite density. Thirty years since its initial release, Propellers In Love remains a peerless work of second-generation American minimalism. This first-time domestic release isrecommended for fans of Glenn Branca, Ellen Fullman and Charlemagne Palestine."
Tracklist:
1.01 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Harmonics (6:39)
1.02 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Odd & Even (9:29)
1.03 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Bowing (6:06)
1.04 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Pedal Tone Dance (2:34)
1.05 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Propellers in Love (9:28)
1.06 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Lucky Strike (2:30)
1.07 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - High Life (15:30)