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Cold Blue

Current price: $20.99
Cold Blue
Cold Blue

Barnes and Noble

Cold Blue

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Although it presents works by most of the composers and artists who came to be closely associated with the label , 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 . The LP version of was released in 1984. In 2002 it was reissued on CD with one bonus track, 's 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 's delicate and 's composition for three speakers and wine glasses, to 's player piano piece 's pedal steel guitar-driven (the last two bookend the album with sonic booms). And yet, a unified atmosphere of dreaminess and inward-looking sounds prevails. The contributions from , , and are the oldest, dating from the early '70s. All the other works were written and recorded in the early '80s. 's added solo piano piece was written back in 1985 and recorded for this, its premiere release, by in 2001. As music at the turn of the century seemed confined to the extremes of noise and stamina on the one hand and the post- search for disappearance of sound on the other, one feels uncertain about how to approach the loveliness of the music on . Recommended. ~ Francois Couture

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