- Beatrix - Chas Smith
- Gradual Siciliano (For Gus) - Ingram Marshall
- The Three Strange Angels - Peter Garland
- You Can't See the Forest...Music - Daniel Lentz
- Marimbas in the Dorian Mode - Michael Byron
- Appearance of Red
- La Ciudad de Nuestra Se¿¿ora la Reina de Los Angeles - David Mahler
- Weddings, Funerals, and Children Who Cannot Sleep
- In This Light
- Necessity - Rick Cox
- Celestra Solo (1981)
- Wonder's Edge - Eugene Bowen - Harold Budd
- Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow - James Tenney
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Peter Garland Primary Artist,Piano
Harold Budd Primary Artist,Keyboard Synthesizer
Rick Cox Primary Artist,Guitar (Electric)
Eugene Bowen Primary Artist,Guitar (Synthesizer)
Ingram Marshall Primary Artist,Piano,Electronics
Chas Smith Primary Artist,Banjo,Pedal Steel
David Mahler Primary Artist
Michael Byron Primary Artist
James Tenney Primary Artist
Conlon Nancarrow Piano
Garry Eister Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Fausto Mandolin
Little Kevin Marimba
Fred Parcells Trombone
Mike Perry Marimba
Bryan Pezzone Piano
William Winant Marimba
Michael Jon Fink Celeste
Beverly Johnson Marimba
Dan Little Cello
James Tenney Performer
Fred Parcells Engineer
Gordon Mumma Engineer
Tom Newman Engineer
William Winant Producer
Chas Smith Engineer
David Mahler Performer
David Rosenboom Engineer
Scott Fraser Engineer
Bill Cobb Engineer
Kevin Gray Mastering
Michael Byron Performer
Carol Parkinson Editing
Jim Fox Design,Producer


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Overview
Although it presents works by most of the composers and artists who came to be closely associated with the label Cold Blue, this album was not a sampler, but a collection of unreleased works, an anthology of West Coast music focusing on experimentation while retaining a high degree of listenability and an ear stretched toward new age. The LP version of Cold Blue was released in 1984. In 2002 it was reissued on CD with one bonus track, David Mahler's "La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles," placed where you would normally have to flip the record. If anything, the album shows how the label's vision was precise without becoming confining. There is much variety, from Michael Jon Fink's delicate "Celesta Solo" and Daniel Lentz's composition for three speakers and wine glasses, "You Can't See the Forest...Music," to James Tenney's player piano piece "Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow" and Chas Smith's pedal steel guitar-driven "Beatrix" (the last two bookend the album with sonic booms). And yet, a unified atmosphere of dreaminess and inward-looking sounds prevails. The contributions from Peter Garland, Lentz, and Tenney are the oldest, dating from the early '70s. All the other works were written and recorded in the early '80s. Mahler's added solo piano piece was written back in 1985 and recorded for this, its premiere release, by Bryan Pezzone in 2001. As avant-garde music at the turn of the century seemed confined to the extremes of noise and stamina on the one hand and the post-Feldman search for disappearance of sound on the other, one feels uncertain about how to approach the loveliness of the music on Cold Blue. Recommended. ~ Francois Couture
Product Details
Release Date: | 04/02/2002 |
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Label: | COLD BLUE LABEL |
UPC: | 0800413000822 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Daniel Lentz Primary Artist,Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part,EchoPeter Garland Primary Artist,Piano
Harold Budd Primary Artist,Keyboard Synthesizer
Rick Cox Primary Artist,Guitar (Electric)
Eugene Bowen Primary Artist,Guitar (Synthesizer)
Ingram Marshall Primary Artist,Piano,Electronics
Chas Smith Primary Artist,Banjo,Pedal Steel
David Mahler Primary Artist
Michael Byron Primary Artist
James Tenney Primary Artist
Conlon Nancarrow Piano
Garry Eister Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Fausto Mandolin
Little Kevin Marimba
Fred Parcells Trombone
Mike Perry Marimba
Bryan Pezzone Piano
William Winant Marimba
Michael Jon Fink Celeste
Beverly Johnson Marimba
Dan Little Cello
Technical Credits
Peter Garland ComposerJames Tenney Performer
Fred Parcells Engineer
Gordon Mumma Engineer
Tom Newman Engineer
William Winant Producer
Chas Smith Engineer
David Mahler Performer
David Rosenboom Engineer
Scott Fraser Engineer
Bill Cobb Engineer
Kevin Gray Mastering
Michael Byron Performer
Carol Parkinson Editing
Jim Fox Design,Producer
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