Subtle and Organic
Music by John Luther Adams -
recommended by MALCOLM TATTERSALL'... vast silent landscapes ...'
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... to return to the place we began and know it for the first time ... -- T S Eliot
That quote, one quarter of the liner notes of Adams' disc, explains its title. Quoting the rest doesn't take long: 'Last summer in my studio I discovered several boxes of reel-to-reel tapes that I'd recorded in the early 1970s. Using those found objects, I sculpted these new soundscapes from fragments of my past...
Copyright © 15 June 2010
Malcolm Tattersall, Townsville, Australia
CD INFORMATION: JOHN LUTHER ADAMS - THE PLACE WE BEGAN
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS PROFILE IN 'THE NEW YORKER'
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS
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