Primitive Earth

Track Listings
 
1. This Moment
2. Coming Up For Air
3. Medellin
4. Last Call
5. Goodby Callaloo
6. Angel Stick
7. Rodeck's Playground
8. Before The Wave
9. Terminus Est
10. Wind's Answer
11. Fin

Editorial Reviews
Sound Choice Magazine
"This is a veritable garden of musicial delights . . . A superior collection of electronic/trance music."

Product Description
Electronic/Trance instrumentals

Band Members: Walter Whitney; Carl Weingarten; David Udell; RSBryan; Michael Hunt.

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John Cage: Music for Prepared Piano, Vol. 2
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Thank You, Naxos!
  • Uncaged
  • Acceptable performances of minor Cage
  • Berman's Cage
 John Cage: Music for Prepared Piano, Vol. 2

Manufacturer: Naxos American
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  1. Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
  2. John Cage: In a Landscape
  3. Insomnia
  4. Silence: Lectures and Writings
  5. John Cage: Early Piano Music

ASIN: B00005A8A6
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

  1. The Perilous Night: No.1
  2. The Perilous Night: No.2
  3. The Perilous Night: No.3
  4. The Perilous Night: No.4
  5. The Perilous Night: No.5
  6. The Perilous Night: No.6
  7. Tossed As It Is Untroubled
  8. Daughters Of The Lonesome Isle
  9. Roots Of An Unfocus
  10. Primitive
  11. Mysterious Adventure
  12. And The Earth Shall Bear Again
  13. The Unavailable Memory Of
  14. Music For Marcel Duchamp
  15. Totem Ancestor
  16. A Room
  17. Prld For Meditation

Amazon.com

John Cage abdicated his role as composer around 1950 to become a bystander as random sounds went by. Before that, he wrote some of the most fascinating music produced in America. Some of Cage's best early music was written for percussion ensembles. When the limited space at a dance performance forced him to become an inventor, he thought up a one-man percussion ensemble: the "prepared piano," a standard piano altered by clamping objects onto the strings. The music on this disc covers a wide range of moods and temperament, from the ghostly "Daughters of the Lonesome Isle" to the aggressive "And the Earth Shall Bear Again." Most of the pieces are imaginative enough to stand up to repeated listening. Boris Berman, a Russian-born pianist who now runs Yale's piano department, is better known for playing music like Scriabin and Prokofiev. But he seems completely in command of this radical idiom, with only a bit of rushing here and there keeping him from perfection. With its vivid sound and fascinating repertoire, this disc is another notable Naxos bargain. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Thank You, Naxos!.......2006-01-20

The term "John Cage" seems to haunt my mind as long as I live. He certainly was one of the most controversial American composers during his days; he was the key figure to introduce "chance" and the "prepared piano" - by placing different small objects on the strings, the instrument produces various timbre, thus creating sort of a one-man percussion ensemble!

"4:33" is the first piece I knew by Cage, and I did listen to bits and pieces from radios and such, but I didn't have a single CD to own and have myself fully introduced to Cage's radical music. Plus, all this avant-garde albums are incredibly hard to find in high-profile Classical labels including Deustche Grammophon and Sony.

That's when I relied on Naxos, which currently holds one of the largest arrays of Classical music. And sure enough, I immediately bought what I needed; the first two Cage CDs released, performed by Russian pianist Boris Berman - the first one featuring "Sonatas and Interludes" for prepared piano, and this album. At a budget price, there is only little risk out of my wallet. So thank you, Naxos! Now I can listen to Cage's music wherever I can.

Of the two albums, I like this one better, because it features (except for the brief cycle "The Perilous Night") different separate pieces, each with distinct "preparations", moods, and colors the instrument can produce with all those objects inside. My favorite are "Tossed as it is Untroubled" and "Music for Marcel Duchamp", both with a foreign folk-like quality. I also like the extravagant "Mysterious Adventure" and the percussive "Primitive". Another particularly bizarre work is "Root of an Unfocus". There are some relatively calm pieces too, including "The Unavailable Memory of", "A Room", and "Prelude for Meditation".

A great CD for other people new with John Cage's music, but a good CD for Cage fans and experts too.

5 out of 5 stars Uncaged.......2004-06-12

Try this album, patiently listening all the way through, and I think you will want immediately to play it again. Cranky music, perhaps, but absolutely fascinating. Cage was a grand experimenter, and here he even reconstructs a piano to achieve just the exact sonorities he wants, brilliantly played by Boris Berman. Haunting music, like nothing heard before. Bob Finley

3 out of 5 stars Acceptable performances of minor Cage.......2003-12-18

Following up on his recording of the complete Sonatas and Interludes, Boris Berman's second Cage disc for Naxos takes on a miscellany of music for prepared piano that gives a good overview of the composer's music for dance of the 1940s. The overall tone of the music is generally rhythmic and percussive rather than melodic; hence Cage's placing of objects on the piano strings to completely change the piano sound.

This disc contains three larger works and nine shorter ones. The Perilous Night is in six movements--the other works here are all in one movement--and explores a variety of sounds, rhythms and timbres. Daughters of the Lonesome Isle alternates between ghostly sound and vigorous dancelike rhythms, while Mysterious Adventure is a wide-ranging--if discursive--eight minute fantasy.

The shorter works tend even more towards vigorously rhythmic writing: Primitive, Totem Ancestor and And the Earth Shall Bear Again are near-orgiastic dances (I particularly like how, in the last of these pieces, Cage prepares the bass notes of the piano but leaves the treble untouched). In contrast, The Unavailable Memory of, Prelude for Meditation and Music for Marcel Duchamp are slow, meditative works, often monophonic. The rhythmic vagaries of Tossed as it is Untroubled, Root of an Unfocus and A Room add a little variety to the music, and probably come as close as any of these pieces to Cage's later style.

This is an interesting disc, and provides a strong foretaste of Minimalism, though an hour of largely similar works is a little much to take in one sitting. Berman's performances are acceptable, but nothing more: most of the works here have received superior readings on rival recordings by pianists such as Karis, Tan, Drury and Schleiermacher. Recommended to those on a budget, or for whom the collection is attractive.

4 out of 5 stars Berman's Cage.......2001-05-08

My only complain comes from his choice of tempo for a piece such as "Music For Marcel Duchamp", which is the fastest i've ever heard (at 5'06 aprox)and lacks the mesmeric atmosphere that got me hooked on it the first time I listened to it.
Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Early beautiful meditative Cage
 Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1

Manufacturer: MD&G Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000021HL
Release Date: 1997-10-21

Tracks:

  1. Bucchanale
  2. Totem Ancestor
  3. And The Earth Shall Bear Again
  4. Primative
  5. I.
  6. II.
  7. Our Spring Will Come
  8. A Room
  9. Tossed As It Is Untroubled
  10. I.
  11. II.
  12. III.
  13. IV.
  14. V.
  15. VI.
  16. Root Of An Unfocus

Tracks:

  1. The Unavailable Memory Of
  2. Spontaneous Earth
  3. Triple Paced
  4. I.
  5. II.
  6. III.
  7. Prelude For Meditation
  8. Mysterious Adventure
  9. Daughters Of The Lonesome Isle
  10. Music For Marcel Duchamp
  11. I.
  12. II.

Tracks:

  1. Sonata I.
  2. Sonata II.
  3. Sonata III.
  4. Sonata IV.
  5. Interlude I.
  6. Sonata V.
  7. Sonata VI.
  8. Sonata VII.
  9. Sonata VIII.
  10. Interlude II.
  11. Interlude III.
  12. Sonata IX.
  13. Sonata X.
  14. Sonata XI.
  15. Sonata XII.
  16. Interlude IV.
  17. Sonata XIII.
  18. Sonata XIV.
  19. Sonata XV.
  20. Sonata XVI.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Early beautiful meditative Cage.......2005-01-26

You will not be disappointed or dismissive of this early music, primarily for prepared piano, an instrument that has sort of fallen out of existence. I know of no vigorous repertoire that had followed Cage's innovations. The idea for placing nuts and bolts, woodscrews and erasers between the piano's internal strings was from Henry Cowell, a piano timbral innovator in his own right. Cage developed the instrument as an accompaniment to the performances of Merce Cunningham dance in the early Forties, and the idea simple took off toward theatre,toward performance art and associative images, Lincoln Kirstein also commissioned works from Cage. Well here you get the full weight of this repertoire, and my favorite is "Perilous Night", it reveals the "subjectivity" residing in Cage despite his numerous attempts to circumvent his persona, Well it comes through here although you always sense that timbre and rhythm remain the primary focus of this early music.Also the un=prepared works, single exposed threadbare lines are what interested early Cage .The timbral differences of the piano preparation are interesting in and of itself and seem to engage concept and image;as "prelude and meditation",a minimal work of three four lines, only a few strings are prepared, or the "Music for Marcel Duchamp" where only the middle register of the piano is utilized with a single melody written in alto clef. This work has more a lyric interest yet having a deeply sombre feel to it.

The more expansive "Sonatas and Interludes" are all here, and there are now dozens of recordings,(like a standard within the repertoire,as Chopin's "preludes") and some play them fast(Joshua Pierce) others slow. I prefer the John Tilbury, Decca recording (now unavailable) but here as well the renderings/readings are quite engaging. The negative feature to all this music is that the timbre seems to never suggest anything more than what it is, it is like anything remains beautiful. Perhaps that is why there has not been a "thousand flowers" blooming from this instrument. It has astatic quality to it,one-dimensional. Cage you feel knew this and did introduce as much variety, distributions of densities, and rhythms, textures, and the structural plan as well adheres to maintaining an agenda for variety. The "Sonatas" here being the primary focus, the exposition, and the "Interludes" the digression relief from the gestural whole.
Box Canyon
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Modern Practitioner of American Primitive Guitar
 Box Canyon

Manufacturer: American Sketch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAKKDA
Release Date: 2005-08-02

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Modern Practitioner of American Primitive Guitar.......2006-11-07

Nick Schillace is one of those artists in the John Fahey vein, in fact, it is coursing through his blood. This is a very good effort and I hope to hear more like it. Check him out at his MySpace site and try CDBabydotcom for buying as they usually carry it in stock. He also has some free d/l songs if you want to ruminate on it a bit. Only criticism is that it is only 36 minutes. These days I expect 40-50 minutes, minimum on a CD. As for the music, it's all original except for one (excellent) Fahey cover. A strong fingerpicker with a solid thumb and nice tone. The songs are a good mix of fast-paced as well as some mellow selections too. And like Fahey, Schillace knows how to use dissonance in just the right amounts. Good stuff!
Primitive Earth
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Very Good
 Primitive Earth
Carl Weingarten
Manufacturer: Multiphase Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005DLV
Release Date: 2000-01-01

Tracks:

  1. This Moment
  2. Coming Up For Air
  3. Medellin
  4. Last Call
  5. Goodby Callaloo
  6. Angel Stick
  7. Rodeck's Playground
  8. Before The Wave
  9. Terminus Est
  10. Wind's Answer
  11. Fin

Album Description

Electronic/Trance instrumentals

Band Members: Walter Whitney; Carl Weingarten; David Udell; RSBryan; Michael Hunt.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Very Good.......2004-03-21

I saw a dance performance using the music from this CD, and it was wonderful! I highly suggest it!
John Cage: Works for Prepared Piano
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    		John Cage: Works for Prepared Piano

    Manufacturer: Col Legno
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00000DFHQ
    Release Date: 1998-11-01
    The Techno Evolution Continues [2 CDs / 2 1/2 Hours of Music] featuring: Jo Bogaert, Omicron, the Irresistible Force, Young American Primitive, Moonwater, Meat Beat Manifesto, Air Liquide, Evolve Now, the Klf, Earth to Infinity, Modulate, Sine, Cosmic Baby, Moby, Symetrics, Rising Sun, Human Mesh Dance, Michael Kandel
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    		 The Techno Evolution Continues [2 CDs / 2 1/2 Hours of Music] featuring: Jo Bogaert, Omicron, the Irresistible Force, Young American Primitive, Moonwater, Meat Beat Manifesto, Air Liquide, Evolve Now, the Klf, Earth to Infinity, Modulate, Sine, Cosmic Baby, Moby, Symetrics, Rising Sun, Human Mesh Dance, Michael Kandel

    ProductGroup: Music
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    ASIN: B000HGLP88

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars TRACK LISTINGS.......2006-08-08

    JO BOGAERT - ambient kinsky
    OMICRON - whaler (strobe mix)
    THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE - sky high
    YOUNG AMERICAN PRIMITIVE - sunrise
    MOONWATER - eternal lover
    MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO - pot sounds
    AIR LIQUIDE - tanz der lemminge 2
    EVOLVE NOW - dream (subdude mix)
    THE KLF - last train to trancentral (mu d, vari-speed version)
    EARTH TO INFINITY - soylent green
    MODULATE - dreams
    SINE - venus
    COSMIC BABY - planet earth 1993 (blue)
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    SYMETRICS - jupiter 6
    RISING SUN - ocean view
    HUMAN MESH DANCE - dahlia
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