Michael Masley has radically departed from the ancient tradition of his signiture instrument, the cymbalom (a chromatic Hungarian hammered dulcimer, first appearing as the Persian santour 2500 years ago).
Played with a 'hammer' in each hand, Masley stayed with convention for 6 years before a "sharp turn into sonic bushwhacking" --inventing "bowhammers"-- fitted to each finger is a hammer with a 3-inch section of rosined horsehair (violin bow).
Adding thumbpicks, this approach enables plucking, bowing, & striking ("bowhammer" or PBS cymbalom).
GARBAGE Producer/drummer BUTCH VIG described the results in a Musician Magazine interview:
"unbelievable harmonic resonances"
(SEE: multimedia presentation @:
npr.org "all songs considered" archives / prog 7 / sel 3)
ON CYMBALENNIUM--
"Vast in scope...as wizardly a soundtrack to the Harry Potter books as one could hope for..."
--Mitch Ritter / DIRTY LINEN
"a very different musical world...a gigantic ear-opener"
--Simen Viig Ostensen / TARKUS (Norway)
"sparkling excursions...charoscuro nuances...these are new rhythms, harmonies, and constructions of a superior mind..."
--Gianguligi Gasparetti / DEEP LISTENINGS (Italy)
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.artistgeneral.com
Track List:
1. Kubrick's Tube
2. Tip of the Icebird
3. Stringfed Stream
4. Hubble Kaleidoscope
5. Longshot Zoom
6. Jig in the Parlor
7. Burying the Dread
8. Humanly Possible
9. Meltwater Falls
10. Either Oar
11. Eyes Wide BUT
12. Nearer to Chi
13. Heard Instinct
14. Table of the Sun
15. Certain Birds
16. Hal in a Handbasket
17. Blue Flamingo
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
Played with a 'hammer' in each hand, Masley stayed with convention for 6 years before a "sharp turn into sonic bushwhacking" --inventing "bowhammers"-- fitted to each finger is a hammer with a 3-inch section of rosined horsehair (violin bow).
Adding thumbpicks, this approach enables plucking, bowing, & striking ("bowhammer" or PBS cymbalom).
GARBAGE Producer/drummer BUTCH VIG described the results in a Musician Magazine interview:
"unbelievable harmonic resonances"
(SEE: multimedia presentation @:
npr.org "all songs considered" archives / prog 7 / sel 3)
ON CYMBALENNIUM--
"Vast in scope...as wizardly a soundtrack to the Harry Potter books as one could hope for..."
--Mitch Ritter / DIRTY LINEN
"a very different musical world...a gigantic ear-opener"
--Simen Viig Ostensen / TARKUS (Norway)
"sparkling excursions...charoscuro nuances...these are new rhythms, harmonies, and constructions of a superior mind..."
--Gianguligi Gasparetti / DEEP LISTENINGS (Italy)
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.artistgeneral.com
Track List:
1. Kubrick's Tube
2. Tip of the Icebird
3. Stringfed Stream
4. Hubble Kaleidoscope
5. Longshot Zoom
6. Jig in the Parlor
7. Burying the Dread
8. Humanly Possible
9. Meltwater Falls
10. Either Oar
11. Eyes Wide BUT
12. Nearer to Chi
13. Heard Instinct
14. Table of the Sun
15. Certain Birds
16. Hal in a Handbasket
17. Blue Flamingo
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- NEW AGE: Celtic New Age
- NEW AGE: New Age
- TYPE: INSTRUMENTAL