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Title:  The Book Of Scenes Artist:  David Shea Label:  Sub Rosa Format:  CD Price:  € 14.40   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
ÒFor this particular work, players are endowed with violin and piano and placed in different pairs and situations for the sketching of each piece of music or scene. The album takes classical arrangements and minimal electronics as its fulcrum, and is less mercurial as a result, but the odd spike of metallic percussion, outlandish sound sample and ode to lounge jazz ensure a certain diversity is upheld. As a practicing Buddhist, Shea's attempt to crosshatch and uncloak these seemingly disparate elements as mere veneers is none too surprising. The musicians appear in complete control of their pitches and the music unfolds by finding a harmony and then coercing it into crisis or painful strains settled into rhythmic exchange. When this occurs, seemingly contradictory approaches, such as the big band jazz stomps and sharp piano stabs of Exotique, seem strangely complementary and dependent upon one another, perhaps articulating the Buddhist claim that the ultimate stage of life is not being or, in other words, independence, but rather emptiness. It is a theme that runs rampant in Shea's works. As viola screeches bounce off shards of noise and feverish piano scales are interrupted by the din of a crowdÕs tempered applause, a deviously controlled sense of chaos abounds.Ó

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