Third Coast Percussion - Between Breaths - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Grammy Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore) presents Between Breaths, an album of world premieres of works by four contemporary composers, plus a work by the quartet itself. Known for their captivating performances and innovative approach to modern classical music, TCP has been praised for Inchcommandingly elegantInch (New York Times) performances and the Inchrare powerInch (Washington Post) of their recordings. Between Breaths, a follow up to TCP's widely praised album, Perspectives, Inchcontinues to push percussion in new directions, blurring musical boundaries and beguiling new listenersInch (NPR). The works on Between Breaths explore aspects of meditation in sound, incorporate unconventional timbres and tones, and invite listeners to lose themselves within a captivating sonic landscape. Missy Mazzoli's five-movement Millennium Canticles transports listeners into a vivid realm where a group of people strive to recreate the rituals and stories of human life after an apocalypse. Mazzoli skillfully crafts an evocative soundscape using diverse elements such as wooden planks, resonant metal pipes, tone chimes, drums, discordant metallic tones, a resounding lion's roar, and an array of vocal expressions. In Practice, a collaborative composition by TCP, began as a sound meditation drawing upon the personal rituals of the quartet's members, from a warm-up routine to using sounds created with everyday objects. This source material laid the foundation for the work, which developed it's own sense of direction and purpose, with an atmosphere of meditation and balance. Tyondai Braxton's Sunny X juxtaposes otherworldly acoustic and electronic timbres against a steady rhythmic drive. Within this sonic tapestry, resonant wooden planks, metallic pipes and plates, and an array of gongs and w