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Product Description
Altered Inventions is a collection of Bach inventions arranged and performed in a jazz style. Many have been altered to slightly different time signatures to give an unusual and modern sound.
Altered Inventions,Lars Erickson
Altered Inventions
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Altered Inventions
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B00006JLPE Release Date: 2002-08-15 |
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Album Description
Altered Inventions is a collection of Bach inventions arranged and performed in a jazz style. Many have been altered to slightly different time signatures to give an unusual and modern sound.Customer Reviews:
Delightful listening!.......2004-04-30
Caveat Emptor.......2003-09-08
Mediocre, boring.......2003-08-26
Look elsewhere for this genre.......2003-08-05
Ever wonder what Edward D. Wood, Jr. would have done if he were a musician? This CD is it!
Unfortunately, "Altered Inventions" will never attract the camp following of "Glen or Glenda?", or "Plan 9 from Outer Space" it certainly captures the essence of the bad artist creating the unintentional belly laugh.
The first groaner can be found on the liner notes, written in the style of Richard Paul Evans. Here the artist informs (or warns) the listener that "Altered Inventions is based on J.S. Bach's Fifteen Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions written hundreds of years ago". The artist doesn't want the listener to confuse these with the Fifteen Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions written last year. What a relief! Remember too, that the artist has been able to reduce the musical ideas that Bach needed Fifteen Inventions to express into Ten tracks, a savings of 50%.
As for the tracks, they fall into three categories. One type is the "Schroeder on psychedelics" arrangement. The cover art ties in with these tracks, there is a photo of the artist, and a stone bust of the artist. Note the flying saucer-like lamp too! (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, and 9)
The second category (#s 2, 7, 8) would be Teshesque. The listener should close his/her eyes and if an image of John Tesh tossing his blond hair in the breeze is appropriate... The interior photo of a blurry hand supplements this image. Say, isn't that the flying saucer again? This time it looks like a nail salon light used to cure acrylic.
The third category can only be called beyond bizarre. Track 4 begins with a garage band intro quite similar to the opening of "One Is the Loneliest Number" by Three Dog Night. When the flute starts, press the skip to next track button. And Track 10, the grand finale, although entitled "Prelude in C", should perhaps be titled "Quaalude in Sea".
This CD gets a "Two Thumbs" rating. Best heard with a thumb in each ear.
Stop reading this and buy it!.......2003-01-22
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