J Cutler - Boogie Nights
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Label: Birmingham Contemporary
Cat No: BRC003
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28th June 2019
Contents
Artists
Darragh Morgan (violin)Mary Dullea (piano)
Lionel Handy (cello)
Nigel Clayton (piano)
The Coull String Quartet
The Schubert Ensemble
Decibel
Orkest de Ereprijs
Conductors
Wim BoermanDaniele Rosina
Works
Boogie NightsComfortable Music
Extended Play
Folk Music
Music for Parakeets
Slippery Music
Artists
Darragh Morgan (violin)Mary Dullea (piano)
Lionel Handy (cello)
Nigel Clayton (piano)
The Coull String Quartet
The Schubert Ensemble
Decibel
Orkest de Ereprijs
Conductors
Wim BoermanDaniele Rosina
About
Contrasts flourish in this collection of pieces, which are bound together by an underlying post-minimalist approach. The title track Boogie Nights (featuring a genuine 1920’s mechanical dancehall organ) plays on the pun of giant organs, making a connection with the 1990s Hollywood film of the same name. Entering this world are a dizzying array of musics ranging from hard-driven post-minimalist rock, 70’s funk, elements of Butch Morris-style conduction, twisted waltzes and music that would not be a-miss on pre-school television. Slippery Music, meanwhile, brings country-and-western into the hallowed medium of the piano quintet, with the result perhaps resembling Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet on illegal drugs.
Within the three movements of Comfortable Music the Baroque rubs shoulders with American roadhouse music, eventually giving way to a far-from-comfortable finale which hints at the existentialism of contemporary Polish composers such as Tomasz Sikorski. Extended Play develops Cutler’s interest in exploring the boundary regions between post-minimalism, rock and jazz, with each of these genres coming to the fore at various points on this journey. But this is not a polystylism based on elements that do not belong, rather a naturally transformative process of materials that have the ability to re-invent themselves.
Music for Parakeets shows how Cutler uses ostinati as a thread to lead the listener through a journey of carefully placed zones, in this case moving from the tentative, to the lyrical, to the pastoral and finally to the brutal. Cutler’s love of Polish Goralski music is apparent in Folk Music. Initially deconstructed, the folk material gradually re-assembles itself, finally coming to the fore in the widely exuberant closing section. All of it adds up to a flavoursome mix in which irony is created through the dialogue between musics that conventionally should not be brought into contact.
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