Just West Coast
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Performer: John CagePerformer: Lou Harrison
Performer: Harry Partch
Performer: La Monte Young
Performer: guitars John Schneider
Performer: harps Amy Shulman
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-11-01
Music Label: Bridge
Soundtracks:
- Suite No. 2: 1. Jahla - John Schneider/Amy Shulman/Gene Sterling
- Suite No. 2: 2. Waltz For Evelyn Hinrichsen - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Suite No. 2: 3. Therenody - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Suite No. 2: 4. Son in Ishartum - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Suite No. 2: 5. Beverly's Troubadour Piece - John Schneider/Amy Shulman/Gene Sterling
- Sarabande - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales: Study on Olympos' Pentatonic - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales: Study on Archytas' Enharmonic - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 1. Today I Am A Man - John Schneider
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 2. Gentlemen - John Schneider
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 3. Considered Pretty - John Schneider
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 4. A Very Good Idea - John Schneider
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 5. Possible Rides - John Schneider
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 6. Jesus Was God In The Flesh - John Schneider
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 7. You Lucky Women - John Schneider
- 8 Hitchhikers' Inscription: 8. Why In Hell Did You Come? - John Schneider
- Dream - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- In A Landscape - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Six Sonatas: 1. Moderato - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Six Sonatas: 2. Allegro - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Six Sonatas: 3. Moderato - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Six Sonatas: 4. Allegro - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Six Sonatas: 5. Moderato - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
- Six Sonatas: 6. Allegro - John Schneider/Amy Shulman
Music reviews of Just West Coast
Music Review: like spring water(just intonation) versus tonality(polluted)
Rating: 5 Stars
Just intonation is based on the natural physicalness of sound,that composers and performers . We haven't, in the history of Western music, instead we have been barbarians with Tonality as our ear- icon, the Western system of what we hear(or don't hear) today is based on "bent" or altered states of vibrations, especially the intervals thirds and fifths. The problem now is that our ears have been conditioned,almost irreparably.Tonality is like an oil-slick touching every shore of World music. If you've never heard music based on just intonation, this is a great place to start. The combination harp and guitar (with some percussion here) has a pure unimpaired quality for which you will immediately say, "why haven't I ever heard this music before". The works here are also by devoted creators who have an intimate knowledge of the tuning non-Western systems of the world. Lou Harrison's music works best in smaller intimate pieces as here in the "Suite No.2". Here the tightly constructed five movements for guitar and harp has a richly diverse constitution,highlighting the solos unique melodic qualities as well as the ensemble chordal combinations. Harrison's music has a close association with the gestures of Asian music,but you always sense he is speaking his own voice always melodic yet with original shapes,lines and contours in unpredictable ways. La Monte Young's "Sarabande", originally for piano solo doesn't suffer under its transformation for guitar and harp.It sounds like wind chimes,a sense of static harmonies(purified now) drifting freely and gently. I never warmed to Partch's music. Granted his profound theories on tuning and instrument making is what the world music systems needed, still his music doesn't have the emotive eqivalence of his profound theories. The spoken text here from "Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions"(1941) is simply blunt and boring reflecting an uniformed sense of the unfreedom of anarchy. "In a Landscape" by John Cage,- originally a piano piece- works better, as a harp solo with its simple arpeggiated harmonies magnetized around two tones." Dream" also by Cage works less successfully, the original G-minor piano solo has a sense of sparceness,and intimacy, where the guitar and harp combination heregently explodes thisas a miniature orchestration. Shulman and Schneider are always sensitive with a high sense of musicality and emotive direction no matter what music is in front of them.
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