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This is album has just been released on Creative Sources from Portugal
"The
two performance overlay is very clever and often brilliant."
- composer
(Director of the Other Minds Festival)
1.
Tough times teach us what we've allways known
2. when we were paying attention.
3. A mind is alive at the moment it's awoken.
4.
A moment is only if?
5.
and
then and then and then
6. If You take everything
7. You've got nothing left
8. to compare it with.
9. Allways will never be
10. different are for being and...
11. never the same again, never again the same!
"An
astounding and intriguing musical experience."
Dolf
Mulder,
Holland
I had the feeling of listening simultaneously to two different
concerts, both following their own intentionality. This experience never fades but on the other hand
both recordings start to 'talk' to each other very soon and many meeting points occur. With a very limited
set of manipulating techniques McDonas succeeds in superimposing an intented structure. And the whole
becomes more then the sum of its parts. It is not that McDonas is interested in reaching some effect,
just for it's own sake. The CD reflects some internal schizophrenic battle through which he maximizes
and intensifies his own voice. A dazzling experience. In listening intensively it is possible
to identify both threads from which this tapestry is woven. But the real joy is to discover the
patterns, the possibilities of relating both voices. Sometimes both voices make a contrast, at other
moments they come close. Great exuberant crescendos are followed by more intimate
passages. Themes and other ideas we know from earlier recordings make a new appearance.
At moments I'm reminded of the universe of Nancarrow. Also, like in track ten, he makes use
of extended techniques. Well, I find it hard to say what border McDonas is crossing here. But I
can live without an answer. In fact, these and other questions that are evoked by these
recordings are part of the fun. An astounding and intriguing musical experience.
Massimo
Ricci,
Italy
"Racing The Sun, Chasing The Sun" is wonderfully complicated - you could well get seasick
if trying to thoroughly follow those monstrous digital precognitions - yet it has that talkative
contrapuntal hyperalimentation, typical of Thollem's most enthralling playing, which will
force your body and soul to become a small part of it.
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