SHUFFLE PLAY: ELEGIES FOR THE RECORDING ANGEL
JOHN SCHOTT
New World Records, 2000Ensemble Diglossia: Steve Adams, Beth Custer, Ben Goldberg, Dan Plonsey, Tom Yoder, Carla Kihlstedt, Jenny Scheinman, Tara Flandreau, Matthew Brubeck, Trevor Dunn, Scott Amendola, Gino Robair, Karen Stackpole, Rob Burger, Myles Boisen, John Schott
From the liner notes: The idea was to develop the material from as many angles as possible: free improvisation, musique concrete, post-war composition, AACM-derived strategies, and pop music, to name a few. Sometimes these idioms are juxtaposed, more often they are integrated, in a sort of polylingual counterpoint. I wanted the tracks to be widely varied as to length, instrumentation, subject, and/or recorded ambience, so as to place in the foreground the listener's role in making it cohere...