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LOCKWOOD, ANNEA - Thousand Year Dreaming / Floating World

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Pogus Productions P21045-2 Release Year: 2007 Note: re-release of "Thousand Year Dreaming" (1990), a dreamy, meditative piece in 5 parts for several wind instruments like didgeridoo, trombone, oboe, english horn, but also percussion and gongs are used... .plus a previously unreleased 36 minute piece from 1999 named "Floating World", based on recordings of friends made at their most spiritual places, woven to a 36 min collage.... - *an immersion in place and transience* - BACK IN STOCK, US-import Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info https://annealockwood.bandcamp.com/album/thousand-year-dreaming-floating-world Thousand Year Dreaming (1990) was commissioned by Essential Music and was written with the musicians on this recording, their particular strengths and inclinations, very much in mind. It grew out of an improvisatory piece, Nautilus, which Art Baron, Scott Robinson and Lockwood realised in 1989. They found that the sound of conch shell trumpets, didjeridu and frame drums really flowered in the resonant spaces they were using for the piece. Lockwood started imagining the sonorities possible with four didjeridus, gongs, conches and trombones and frame drums, all shaped by the penetrating and sensuous edge of oboes and clarinets. floating world (1999) is an immersion in place and transience. The composer invited friends who work with environmental sounds themselves, and who have a strong sense of place, to make recordings for her in places of personal, spiritual significance to them, so it is a collaborative work. From their field recordings (edited but not processed), and other sounds Lockwood wove the slowly shifting texture forming floating world. All works composed by Annea Lockwood Performers on Thousand Year Dreaming: Art Baron, conch shell, trombone, didjeridu Libby Van Cleve, oboe, English horn Jon Gibson, didjeridu Annea Lockwood, voice J.D. Parran, clarinet, contrabass clarinet Michael Pugliese, tam-tam, clapping sticks N. Scott Robinson, conch shell, frame drums, pod rattle, tam-tam John Snyder, didjeridu, waterphone Charles Wood, tam-tam, stones Peter Zummo, trombone, didjeridu Field recordings for floating world were provided by: Brenda Hutchinson, Chris Mann, David Dunn, John Cousins, Larry Austin, Maggi Payne, Philip Dadson, Ruth Anderson, Sorrel Hays, Steve Peters, and Warren Burt ################################ "Annea Lockwood is a composer from New Zealand, who got most of her education on the European continent, and lives and works since in 90s on the american continent. She worked with sound poets, wrote music for theatre productions, for live electronics, piano, etc. With 'Thousand year Dreaming / Floating World' it is the first time for me enjoying her work. The cd opens with 'Thousand Year Dreaming' that was released several years ago by the What Next label CD. The cd closes with the previously unreleased piece 'Floating World'. 'Thousand year Dreaming' (1990) is a sort of modern cave music. The piece is written for a diversity of wind instruments, like didjeridu, conch shell, trombone, oboe, etc., plus percussion. We also hear the voice of Lockwood. Besides her, 9 musicians are involved in the performance of this dreamy, meditative piece that consists of 5 parts. Central is the didjeridu that represents "the sound of earth's core pulsing serenely, and expression of the life force". This modern cave music needs repeated listening before its reveals its beauty that is at the opposite of striking. For 'Floating World' (1999) Lockwood invited friends "to make recordings for me in places of personal, spiritual significance to them". Through editing and adding new sounds Lockwood linked these different places into one floating world. So a piece results that mainly consists of environmental sounds of mother earth. A nice collage." [DM / Vital Weekly] label: www.pogus.com