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Album Review
Eotvos, Peter – “Vocal Works” – [Budapest Music Center]
Cousin Mary 2/5/2012 A Library, CD
These 5 tracks have very diverse sounds from Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos (pronounce Pay-tear Oat-vosh).
- Track 1 is modern atonal opera for orchestra and baritone.
- Track 2, Harakiri, was inspired by a poem written about Yukio Mishima’s ritual suicide. It includes Japanese flutes and a wood chopper whose chunks of wood fall to the floor with thuds. Somber and full of dread.
- Track 3 is manipulated tape recordings of an Hungarian folk tale.
- Track 4 tells a tale of gallant insects and sounds a bit lighthearted and silly.
- Track 5 uses manipulated recordings (probably not of crickets or nature) to produce a chirping soundscape sounding much like crickets.
One of the most unusual recordings that I have ever heard. Recommended!
you heard it 18 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 1132 days ago, Fox Populi played Cricketmusic (1970)
- 2109 days ago, Louie Caliente played Harakiri (1973)
- 3834 days ago, Shark Starr I played Cricketmusic (1970)
- 3839 days ago, Cousin Mary played Harakiri (1973)
- 3842 days ago, Roland Blunt played Two Monologues (1998)
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