The astonishing new CD release from Erik Ian Walker and Marit Brook-Kothlow is a fascinating, evocative, and engaging combination of forces that play through it's length like a movie bursting with imagery and travels from place to place- all without any film at all.
I HAVE NEVER TOLD YOU combines 3 elements like 3 simultaneously running stories that sweep the listener through passages of introspective, moody, luscious sounds that segue to simple, arresting vocals arriving like directions to the next place on another path, and sudden bursts of rhythm that renew the scenery and prepare one for the next adventure.
Marit Brook-Kothlow, the acclaimed singer/dancer from the Joe Goode Performance Group, Erik Ian Walker , creator of the Kisses, and Dave Mihaly, percussionist extraordinaire, have created a powerful collaborative CD experience distilled from their years of music, experimental theater, dance, and film work. The genesis began on the set of a play in San Francsico and over the next year developed into this astonishing work of emotional power and intimacy- a soundtrack that needs no film.
Searching, deserted violas dissolve into a downtown street corner, a voice wanders by on the street, singing of escape, a sudden snap to a kettle being put on brings in a quietly trudging piano with a gorgeous melody that just won't quit that turns into a massive tower of piano chords and reaches a peak of intense longing just as the shrill whistle of the kettles explode- then a rush of drums bubble in like a creek in a refreshing place. That's one ride. There's five, depending on who's counting.
The Musicians
Erik Ian Walker: piano, hammond organ, Oberheim matrix-12, Buchla synthesizer, tea kettles, fan, percussion, soundscapes
Marit Brook-Kothlow: voice
Phyllis Kamrin: violin, viola
Dave Mihaly: drums, percussion, odd squeaky thing
Ara Anderson: trumpet, baritone horn
Grant Walker: ring mod clarinet
Cameron Ember: soprano in Castle Canyon
Billierae: pump organ
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.wackoworldmusic.com
Track List:
1. Set Up
2. Far From Here
3. The Cup of Tea
4. Scene Change
5. I Have Never Told You
6. The Gateway
7. The Garden
8. Pause to Refreshen
9. Jump Into An Instant of New
10. Castle Canyon
11. Don't Need It
12. I Can Get Along
13. Fjord Serpent
14. Ferry Across The River
15. Ear Freshener/Reunited
16. A Break in the Action
17. An Image in the Dark
18. The Last Cup of Tea
19. Far From Here (reprise)
20. Furry Lisa
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I HAVE NEVER TOLD YOU combines 3 elements like 3 simultaneously running stories that sweep the listener through passages of introspective, moody, luscious sounds that segue to simple, arresting vocals arriving like directions to the next place on another path, and sudden bursts of rhythm that renew the scenery and prepare one for the next adventure.
Marit Brook-Kothlow, the acclaimed singer/dancer from the Joe Goode Performance Group, Erik Ian Walker , creator of the Kisses, and Dave Mihaly, percussionist extraordinaire, have created a powerful collaborative CD experience distilled from their years of music, experimental theater, dance, and film work. The genesis began on the set of a play in San Francsico and over the next year developed into this astonishing work of emotional power and intimacy- a soundtrack that needs no film.
Searching, deserted violas dissolve into a downtown street corner, a voice wanders by on the street, singing of escape, a sudden snap to a kettle being put on brings in a quietly trudging piano with a gorgeous melody that just won't quit that turns into a massive tower of piano chords and reaches a peak of intense longing just as the shrill whistle of the kettles explode- then a rush of drums bubble in like a creek in a refreshing place. That's one ride. There's five, depending on who's counting.
The Musicians
Erik Ian Walker: piano, hammond organ, Oberheim matrix-12, Buchla synthesizer, tea kettles, fan, percussion, soundscapes
Marit Brook-Kothlow: voice
Phyllis Kamrin: violin, viola
Dave Mihaly: drums, percussion, odd squeaky thing
Ara Anderson: trumpet, baritone horn
Grant Walker: ring mod clarinet
Cameron Ember: soprano in Castle Canyon
Billierae: pump organ
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.wackoworldmusic.com
Track List:
1. Set Up
2. Far From Here
3. The Cup of Tea
4. Scene Change
5. I Have Never Told You
6. The Gateway
7. The Garden
8. Pause to Refreshen
9. Jump Into An Instant of New
10. Castle Canyon
11. Don't Need It
12. I Can Get Along
13. Fjord Serpent
14. Ferry Across The River
15. Ear Freshener/Reunited
16. A Break in the Action
17. An Image in the Dark
18. The Last Cup of Tea
19. Far From Here (reprise)
20. Furry Lisa
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- CLASSICAL: New Age
- CLASSICAL: Contemporary
- TYPE: SOUNDTRACK