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Things Opening (vinyl LP)

Lori Goldston - Things Opening (vinyl LP)
This new album by the American cellist offers an appreciation of her talents as both a composer and performer, in a unique and elegant style reflecting her many inspirations, from baroque music to Americana and experimental music.
Lori Goldston's approach to the violoncello is true and immediate. Describing herself as “classically trained and rigorously de-trained”, Goldston indeed defies all conformities of genre, style and technique. Her playing reflects as much of Baroque as it does of American roots or experimental traditions. It is elegant, gritty, restless, delicate, irreverent, utterly pure. This album comprises of two parts, highlighting Goldston as both a distinct composer as well as a many-faceted performer. The first side holds a suite of songs written by Goldston to accompany the poems of Melinda Mueller, while the second features pieces written for Goldston by Jessika Kenney, Satchel Henneman and Julio Lopezhiler.
Recorded live by Mell Dettmer at the Chapel Performance Space and at Studio Soli in Seattle WA, 2018.

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston (born 1963 in the State of New York, lives and works in Seattle) is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, she wanders recklessly across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography, performing in clubs, cafes, galleries, arenas, concert halls, sheds, ceremonies, barbecues, and stadiums.
Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Matana Roberts, Dana Reason, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Mike Gamble, Mik Quantius, Embryo, Secret Chiefs 3, Marisa Anderson, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, Ô Paon, Tara Jane O'Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Byron Au Young, Christian Rizzo, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton and Judith Hamann.
Mastered and cut by Anne Taegert at Duplates & Mastering in Berlin, 2019.

Photograph: Antonis Theodoridis, 2016.

 
published in November 2019
8 tracks (3'05 / 3'17 / 2'14 / 2'14 / 3'00 / 6'48 / 3'45 / 4'30)
 
22.00 16.50
(special offer)
 
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