Hyperpiano vs HyperBass Flute: It's a steel-cage death-match between two traditional instruments that have been modified to create very strange new sounds, recorded in improvised duets. Not for the faint of heart! In this corner,
Denman Maroney and his Hyperpiano; taking Cage's prepared piano to undreamed-of extremes, Maroney assaults his instrument "...by stopping, sliding, bowing, plucking, strumming and striking the strings directly with a variety of tools including bars, bowls, knives, bells and mashers of metal, boxes and bottles of plastic, mallets of various kinds, and blocks of rubber." Needless to say, the resulting buzzing and clanging sounds almost nothing like any piano music you've heard before.
The prolific Maroney is part of the New York oddball experimental scene that includes cats like the Gamelan Son of Lion big band, but his Duologues album with bassist Mark Dresser really gives his Hyperpiano a chance to grab the spotlight.
Maroney & Dresser: Bali Nigh
Maroney & Dresser: Bendango
And in the other corner...
Roberto Fabbriciani on his gigantic HyperBass Flute, an instrument you don't hear so much as feel - it's burbles and rumbles beneath Esther Lamneck's flights of fancy on her clarinet-like Hungarian tarogato. The title of their Innova Records release "Winds of The Heart" may sound like the name of a soap opera, but there's nothing corny about these untitled improvised duets. Lamneck's Eastern European influences give the music a bit of an exotic feel.
Fabbriciani& Lamneck: track 9
Fabbriciani& Lamneck: track 12
Home »
classical/experimental »
jazz/improv »
Unusual instruments »
DUDE, YOU'RE GETTING, LIKE, TOTALLY HYPER
Monday, March 14, 2011
DUDE, YOU'RE GETTING, LIKE, TOTALLY HYPER
Posted by
harry-inside
at
10:05 AM
Related : DUDE, YOU'RE GETTING, LIKE, TOTALLY HYPER
JUNK ORCHESTRAS Pt 2: A Child's Garden Of Junk(Now back up: Capt. Beefheart "Clear Spot" instrumental tracks, and the Caribbeana Esoterica of Elmore Stout, and The Lashing Dogs.)"The flipflopaphon – the tromballoony ...
TOTALLY NUDE EXOTICABy request, the Irish folk mashup collection "Straight Outta Ireland" is back up. When my unbelieving eyes saw that parts of the US were going to be below -50 F (fa ...
HAPPY NEW WEIRDOh, my overflowing in-box! Now that I'm back from vacation, I simply MUST tell you about:- Yrs truly, Mr Fab, will once again be spinning all the platters that matter fo ...
BeerBottle Percussion, NewWave Music-Boxes, Avant-Catholic MassesLast year's assortment of experimental/alt-classical/unclassifiably weird new releases received a succinct two-word comment from reader Outa-Spaceman: "Astonishing stuff ...
ROBOTS PLAY EXOTICA- You got robots in my gamelan!- You got gamelan in my robots!Two great tastes that go great together: Gamelan Galak Tika (pronounced 'Galactica'?) & Ensemble Robot, ...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)