Fullman,Ellen / Living Earth Show - Elemental View - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Living Earth Show's debut album, High Art begins with a blues lick gone awry - a hit cymbal and a pitch-bent guitar - and ends with electronics eating themselves. In between, the Living Earth Show crafts an album that stretches the definitions of 'art' and 'popular' music. High Art navigates the traditions of classical, rock and roll, blues and electronic music, stitching them into to a groundbreaking statement on the past, present and future of American music.

The rich variety of colors and rhythms in South American culture and music are an essential feature of this program, which focuses largely on music by composers from the Ecuadorian Andes. Opening with Durán's popular and crowd-pleasing Leyenda incásica, the theme of Ecuadorian dances continues in Jacinto Freire's Suite, which also celebrates the flight of the condor. Virtuosity, evocations of landscape and expressive traditional songs can all be found here, concluding with Mexican composer Samuel Zyman's internationally acclaimed FluteSonataNo.1, which ranges from lyrical introspection to intensely contrapuntal dialogue.

Capella de Ministrers - Elementos [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/29/2007