eldritch Priest - the plastic chaparral
the plastic chaparral (2005) is a
musical shrubland. Like its organic other whose stands of
tangled scrubs weave a dense sweep of fire-prone wilderness,
these three works express different growths of the same
radicular structure. The plastic piano part, adapted to
different regimes of harmony and tempo, is the root system
from which each spear and sucker springs. Variation here is
not on a theme but on a difference, an embryonic variation
that is its essential power to differ.
Chaparral one comprises snarls of polyphony in varying
density.
Chaparral two entwines two creepers around one another.
Chaparral three spaces out its runners and occasionally sows
moments of extraordinary intensity.
Dave
Chokroun - contrabass
Heather Roche - clarinet
eldritch Priest - guitar and lap steel
Nelson Slovada - trombone
Kenji Fuse - viola
(w/taped and warped electric piano)
1 -
chaparral
one (14'55)
2 - chaparral
two (14'55)
3 - chaparral
three (19'48)
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