Catching up and enjoying The Meridian Arts Ensemble.
Meridian Arts Ensemble: Timbrando
(2008, sacd)
The MAE added: This is our ninth CD, and it is being released in the year of our twentieth anniversary. The CD is a kind of travelogue, featuring music we picked up during our tour of Latin and South America and the United States. Several of the pieces on this disc were commissioned for our visit to the Subtropics Festival in Miami, a city that was a major crossroads of Latin culture in 1997. Other pieces were collected abroad or from friends we made there. We brought all this music back to our home base, New York, another intercultural meeting place. And now to listeners wherever they may be. Timbrando is Portuguese for making a tone or sound (it is related to the word timbre).
- Meridian Arts Ensemble: Brink
(2006, sacd)
The MAE added: On this disc, we present three commissioned works, composed by David Sanford, Elliott Sharp and Nick Didkovsky. For a long time, we wanted to put together concert programmes with just a few large-scale works, each of which fully developed their ideas. Now the repertoire is growing, and we are on the cusp of something new. All three pieces draw on different musical styles available to the contemporary listener, from free improvisation in a densely notated art-rock setting to evocations of African vocal polyphony, from oblique references to 1970s television themes to the rhythms and intonations of a preaching minister. Yet each piece creates its own unique style and language. We recorded this CD in the Mennonite Church on the town square of Deventer, the Netherlands, on a large pedestrian square locally known as the Brink.
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