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LICHT, ALAN - A New York Minute

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: XI Recordings XI 128 Release Year: 2003 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.00 More Info Polyphone Drone-Harmonics von ALAN LICHT, der hier sowohl seine Qualitäten als Experimental & Drone-Gitarrist zeigt als auch seine Fähigkeit konzeptuell zu komponieren...“Alan Licht wears many hats. Over the years, he's been a curator of music as well as a tireless performer. And he's as well-known an author as he is a musician. It's one thing to have eclectic tastes; it's another to make a practice of them. While Licht's earlier records have seamlessly melded his improvisational guitar playing with extended plundered sounds, A New York Minute takes things a few steps further. Instead of fusing the many sides of Licht into one monolithic mega-mix, this disc separates them into discreet compositions. There's a lot more at stake here: the guitar pieces are showcased as guitar pieces and the plundered works are just that. The conceptual tendencies in Licht no longer hide behind his talent as a guitarist; likewise, the guitar pieces are no longer propped on hooky concepts that take our attention away from his fretwork. The good news is that both work: Licht is as strong a conceptual artist as he is a composer. (Kenneth Goldsmith, liner note writer)