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#134 Fall 2019 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Musicworks: #134 Fall 2019 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks)

Fall 2019 issue of Canada's premier music magazine covering contemporary, improvisation and experimental music, plus reviews of recordings, books, and events; this issue has articles on Ana Sokolovic, Charlie Morrow, Nadah El Shazly, Laraaji, Amy Brandon, William Kuo, Sami Blanco, Silla and Rise, Mystery & Wonder Records, including a CD with tracks from the same.
 

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UPC: 72527491816402

Label: Musicworks
Catalog ID: #134
Squidco Product Code: 28009

Format: Magazine + CD
Condition: New
Released: 2019
Country: Canada
Packaging: Magazine and CD

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"The artists in the Fall 2019 issue expand their perspectives through innovative collaborations and combos-they just can't get enough!

Ana Sokolović: Serbian-born Canadian composer Ana Sokolović's fantastical, imaginary worlds are encapsulated in her internationally renowned, critically acclaimed operas, chamber music, instrumental, orchestral, and interarts works. The multi-award-winning, Montreal-based artist garnered the 2019 Juno award for Classical Composition of the Year for her Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, commissioned by the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Her newest full-length opera The Old Fools, with libretto by British author Paul Bentley, is due to receive its world premiere by the Canadian Opera Company in 2021. In a profile by Winnipeg composer and arts journalist Holly Harris, Sokolović shares her thoughts on composing, talks about her earliest musical roots, her life, her family, her fervent national pride, and her immigrant experience in her adopted country, which she now proudly calls home. In addition to the composer's own reflections, key players in her career-Michael Cavanagh, Marie-Josée Chartier, Véronique Lacroix, Dáirine Ní Mheadhra, and Alexander Shelley-talk about their experience with her in collaborations fueled by her exuberant joie de vivre and passion for life.

Charlie Morrow, madcap transcendentalist, animal-friendly avant-gardist, conceptual Dr. Doolittlist, Fluxus artist avant la lettre, prebirth memoirist, earworm composer, and laugh-inducing maxi-minimalist is someone writer Bart Plantenga recently reconnected with after twenty-five years. In buoyant conversations with him, Plantenga learned that Morrow has been to the Arctic Circle, performed in Carnegie Hall, talked to frogs and fish, and, with his MorrowSound®, has installed sound environments in, among other institutions, the Louvre, Whitney Museum, New York's Museum of Natural History, and at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. He has collaborated with the likes of John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Charlotte Moorman, Philip Corner, Nam June Paik, Simon & Garfunkel, Young Rascals, James Tenney, Paul Dutton, Malcolm Goldstein, Joan LaBarbara, Alison Knowles, Jerome Rothenberg, Vanilla Fudge, Glen Velez, Sten Hanson, Derek Bailey, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Ken Russell, and many more. This led to some nervous contemplation on the writer's part, but, eventually, he set out on this treacherous path to write about Morrow, who has done so much it would require several book-length volumes to capture his full essence. For now, Plantenga offers this illuminating distillation of the achievements of this most fascinating artist.

Nadah El Shazly: Prodigiously talented Egyptian singer-producer-instrumentalist Nadah El Shazly's adventurous, open-minded attitude to composition and performance allows her to make transcendent music from a host of unlikely influences. At the opening of her Spring 2019 North American tour in Toronto, El Shazly talked to Musicworks writer Mary Dickie about her mostly self-directed music education in Cairo, where she grew up, her discovery and enthusiastic reinterpretations of songs by late-19th-century Egyptian composer-songwriters, and how her collaboration with Montreal's Sam Shalabi and his network of like-minded Canadian musicians led to an expanded musical palette on her debut album, Ahwar (2017).

African-American New Age legend Laraaji joyfully performs and presents laughter-meditation workshops around the world, and this year released two recordings on Canadian labels.

Nova Scotia guitarist Amy Brandon combines contemporary composition with other forms of musical invention, drawn from her work with improvisation and electronics.

Vancouver composer William Kuo, a 2018 Gaudeamus Award nominee, brings a limitless sonic and sculptural imagination to his increasingly collaborative practice.

Yellowknife-based electronic music artist Sami Blanco . . .

and Ottawa's Juno-winning Silla and Rise are creating innovative, rhythmic soundscapes.

Montreal's Mystery & Wonder Records delivers in-your-face music with a handmade touch.

All this + reviews of recordings, books, and events in this issue!"-Musicworks Magazine


Artist Biographies

Track Listing:



1. Silla and Rise: Maujaraq-Snow Dub

2. William Kuo: fascia

3. Nadah El Shazly: Afqid Adh-Dhakira (I Lose Memory)

4. Nadah El Shazly: AA2 Dans ma bouche, une autre bouche 6:20

5. Sami Blanco: Natation

6. Ana Sokolović: Commedia dell'arte III, 3. Innamorati

7. Ana Sokolović:Commedia dell'arte I, 2. Colombina

8. Ana Sokolović:Ghost

9. Ana Sokolović:City Songs: tiho noći

10. Amy Brandon: Artificial Light 3:40

11. Amy Brandon: gouging at a forest sea 6:23

12. Mystery & Wonder Recordings: Mechanical Forest Sound 2

13. Charlie Morrow: In One Ear and Out the Other-from Moonwalk One to the Grand Conch Chorus 9:57

14. Laraaji Celestial Realms, excerpt 10:09

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