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Nico Muhly Speaks Volumes

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Nico Muhly Speaks Volumes

Nico Muhly Speaks Volumes
Contemporary Classical | 2006 | 53:27 | EAC (FLAC, cue, no log) | Front cover | 257 MB


At just 27 years of age, [Nico Muhly] has a career that many musicians would dream of – he works for Phillip Glass; he composes film scores (such as for The Reader); writes his own music (he has two albums, 2007’s Speaks Volumes and 2008’s Mothertongue); he’s signed to the fantastic Icelandic label Bedroom Community and spends part of the year in Iceland; he has worked with Grizzly Bear, Bjork and Antony and the Johnsons; and he is involved with many other musical projects.

Released on new Icelandic imprint Bedroom Community, set up by record producer and Björk collaborator Valgeir Sigurðsson, Speaks Volumes is the debut album from twenty-four year old composer and musician Nico Muhly. Born in Vermont and raised in Rhodes Island, Muhly studied composition at the Julliard School. He has since worked with Antony & The Johnsons, orchestrated the score for The Manchurian Candidate in 2004, collaborated with Björk on Medúlla and conducted the score for Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9, once again working in partnership with Björk. Speaks Volumes is a fascinating collection of complex and delicate chamber music pieces framed with discreet electronics. While the seven tracks presented here all share rather austere attires, developed from few instruments at a time, there is, running through the whole album, a deep sense of musicality which gives it a surprisingly light and airy appearance. Although his music can at times seem somewhat serious and conceptual, especially on the textural and moody Clear Music, with which he opens, or on the complex and expressionist Honest Music, Muhly deflects the tention by projecting playful elements at the forefront of his compositions, from the relentless clarinet pursuit of It Goes Without Saying to the swelling waves of piano and celesta fighting out for attention on Pillaging Music. Elsewhere, Muhly adopts a rather more stern approach on the superb Quiet Music and A Hudson Cycle. Both pieces, interpreted by Muhly on the piano, are short and introspective, but, whereas the former shows strong spiritual and cinematic overtones, the latter is a much more subtle and fragile composition. Originally created as a wedding gift for two friends, the piece is at once melancholic and uplifting and pays a noted homage to the work of Philip Glass, which Muhly cites as one of his most important influences. The closing track is a much more experimental and intriguing composition. Keep In Touch opens with a lonely viola drawing a pseudo improvised arabesque before being joined by Antony on vocal duties. This is perhaps the most demanding moment on this album, but the dense canvas formed from the alternatively plaintive and abrasive instrument and the mournful hums and hoos, with background electronics progressively adding grit to the mix, serves the intrigue surprisingly well and brings this album to an end in a rather unexpected fashion. While Nico Muhly has been getting noticed for his work for a while, with compositions performed on both sides of the Atlantic, this first collection, as eclectic and disparate as it is, is certain to raise his profile and put the fledgling Bedroom Community imprint on the map. - http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/author/themilkman/


About composer see here - http://nicomuhly.com



Tracklisting:

1 Clear Music (9:29)
Celeste - Nico Muhly
Cello - Clarice Jensen
Harp - Monika Abendroth
Recorded By [Cello] - Dan Bora

2 It Goes Without Saying (9:22)
Cello - Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir*
Clarinet - Carol McGonnell

3 Honest Music (6:19)
Harp - Monika Abendroth
Violin - Lisa Liu


4 Quiet Music (4:37)
Piano - Nico Muhly


5 Pillaging Music (8:04)
Percussion - Samuel Z. Solomon*
Piano, Celeste - Nico Muhly


6 A Hudson Cycle (3:20)
Piano - Nico Muhly


7 Keep In Touch (12:16)
Recorded By [Vocals, Trombone] - Dan Bora
Trombone - Kyle Covington
Viola - Nadia Sirota
Vocals - Antony (3)


# Audio CD (January 23, 2007)
# Original Release Date: November 27, 2006
# Number of Discs: 1
# Label: Bedroom Community
# ASIN: B000KCHW2W



Download Links:
Part 1
Part 2


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One of Nico Muhly compositions is recorded by NOW Ensemble and available at NOW Ensemble - NOW.

Last Nico Muhly CD Mothertongue was offered here at Avax by Peachfuzz.