Adams, John Luther - Red Arc/Blue Veil
SKU
05-COLDBLUE0026
"Ecstatic, powerful music for piano(s) and percussion featuring noted new -music performers pianist Stephen Drury and percussionist Scott Deal. It combines architectural and multi-tempo/polyrhythmic processes with the composer's passion for lush surface textures. This music ties together extremes—shifting color fields and monochromatic planes; quietly shimmering textures and "noisy" roars; the wild and the constrained."
"The music of John Luther Adams is simply beautiful. It has a crystalline quality and a peaceful character that evoke the Arctic life...Adams’ music sounds like it has nothing to accomplish. It simply exists, hanging in mid-air, waiting to be listened to."-All-Music Guide
"Adams's music can be superficially described as the intersection of two diverse influences: Feldman and Cowell...his scores bear the ubiquitous marks of Cowell's multitempoed rhythmic structures.... The Feldman influence manifests itself as a delight in delicately balanced sonorities used as recurring images.... The variety of dreamy textures Adams achieves with a few simple materials is lovely."-Kyle Gann, American Music in the 20th Century
"The sound of this music is that of overlapping planes of sound … this is music from someone who knows who he is and what he wants."-Fanfare