Layne Redmond - Invoking the Muse
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Canadian Music Store CD DetailsArtist: Layne RedmondEdition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown) CD Release Date: 2004-07-20 Music Label: Sounds True Soundtracks:
Music reviews of Invoking the MuseMusic Review: Sultry, intricate drumsongs celebrating inspiration and the feminine
Drummer and drum historian Layne Redmond offers nine hypnotically meditative compositions, each featuring a unique and often esoteric beat sounded by at least two different kinds of drums, and layered with dreamy flutes, violin and wordless vocalise descants. Each piece is an invocation to one of the nine Greek Muses, goddesses of creativity: Kalliopeia (epic poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (song and tragedy), Erato (music of mystical and erotic love), Terpsikhore (dance), Urania (astronomy, mathematics and prophesy), Kleio (history and heroic poetry), Thaleia (comedy and idyllic poetry), and Polyhymnia (sacred hymns and meditation). This album is relaxing to unwind to, and should be particularly fascinating for drummers or dancers to listen to and try to perform along with. Some drumming albums can be boring and repetitive to the verge of pointlessness, but the gentle rhythmic interplay of the dual drummers in here is so well and intelligently crafted that, to me, it never ceases to intrigue. "Invoking the Muses" is truly a delight to the senses! All the tempos are slow to moderate, and the beat structures for each track are as follows: #1 - in seven; #2 - a slow three or six; #3 - actually in phrases of sixteen, but can be thought of in a slow four or a medium eight if sixteen is too hard to count along with; #4 - a moderate "African" six; #5 - a faster six; #6 - this one's a real brain twister, with measures decreasing in size from eight to seven to six and so on in increments all the way down to one, at which point the eight-beat-measure begins over again (a fun challenge to drum along with and aptly dedicated to the Muse of mathematics!); #7 - a funky, upbeat eight; #8 - another one in seven, composed by Glen Velez; #9 - a spacey, beatless melange of crooning, bells and Tibetan bowls. The performers are Layne Redmond on Remo frame drums, vocals, tambourines and other assorted percussion, Tommy Brunjes on additional drums and percussion, Steve Gorn on bansuri flute, Vicki Richards on violin, and Ruth Cunningham and Laurel Masse on vocals. Layne Redmond's previous album, "Chanting the Chakras," combines the chanting of sacred syllables of nada yoga with meaty, interesting drum rhythms. (It's repetitive in a purposeful, meditiational way, but a unique listening experience nonetheless.)
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