Tom Van Der Geld: Small Mountain

Post-Modern / Contemporary
premiera polska: 2024-02-26
kontynent: Europa
opakowanie: Singlefoldowe etui
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Editor's info:
In 1986, the vibraphonist Tom Van Der Geld composed his personal ode to creation, a tonal poem for all natural beings. Small Mountain reveal a pure minimalist inspiration, a vibrant style of sound variations that is decidedly more Zen-Impressionistic than the mathematical-metaphysical works of Steve Reich. This music, for four marimbas and other percussion instruments suggests an emotional osmosis with all the elements, a flow of ecstatic progressions that is more immanence than transcendence. It's the rain that falls softly on fragrant moss or the fog that hides the frost on the grass; an exotic spectrum of mutliform colours, dances of leaves, branches, sticks, fronds, lianas, swirls of petals and bark. Ode to the wind, to the rainforest, a psalm to the waters energy that opens the portals of the temples of Nature. As in the aboriginal songlines, every place or being on Planet Earth becomes, through music, space for the sacred.

muzycy:
Tom van der Geld: Marimba [2 Concert-marimbas], Tam-tam, Gong [2 Small Gongs], Gong [Temple Gong - Burma], Cymbal [Chinese], Chimes [Bell], Finger Cymbals [- Thailand], Percussion [Salad Bowl], Toy [Dancing Duck - Children's Toy: Hong Kong], Saw [Circular Sawblades - Austria], Sheng [Shen - Thailand], Bells [Horse Bells - Afghanistan], Sounds [Electronic Metronome - Japan] – Tom van der Geld (tracks: B3), Marimba [4 Concert-marimbas]

utwory:
A. Small Mountain 23:00
B1. March April Marimba 7:32
B2. Aspen Leaves 5:20
B3. Karmic Dance 8:22

wydano: May 9, 2022
nagrano: Private Recording, Tom van der Geld, Bremen, July 1985

more info: www.blacksweatrecords.com