00 The Music Of Stones.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Music Of Stones
Author: Stephan Micus
Release Year: 1989
Genre: Contemporary Jazz
File Information
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Number of Tracks: 6
Total Duration: 0:51:04
Total Size: 181.83 MB
Files Created on: 20-Apr-2016 23:45:32
Encoded At: CBR 509 kbit/s 44 KHz Stereo
ID3 Tags: No
NFO Created: 22-Apr-2016 10:42:19
NFO/SFV/PAR created by: Mp3BookHelper http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
Posting
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Posting date: 22-Apr-2016
File List
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Duration File Name
1 0:13:27 01 Part 1 Resonating Stone, Shakuhachi.flac
2 0:05:24 02 Part 2 1 Resonating Stone, Two Players.flac
3 0:05:20 03 Part 3 Tin Whistle, 3 Stone Chimes.flac
4 0:11:45 04 Part 4 Solo For 3 Resonating Stones.flac
5 0:06:22 05 Part 5 Shakuhachi Solo.flac
6 0:08:46 06 Part 6 4 Resonating Stones, Voice.flac
Description
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Continuing his musical quest across countries and cultures, Stephan Micus
visits the Cathedral of Ulm, where Elmar Daucher has been sculpting and carving
rocks of granite, marble, and basalt specifically for their acoustic potential.
Such a curiosity, where Micus is involved, usually results in an album. The
instruments as much as the music. It follows a formula similar to his album
Twilight Fields, where tuned clay pots were the centerpiece. "Part 1" ebbs to
life with a duet between one of these mythical stones that lays a rich harmonic
drone for Micus to solo over with his staple instrument, the shakuhachi.
"Part 2" shows off more percussive qualities by having two players with mallets
on a single stone, though the novelty of it wears thin and becomes the one
passage that breaks the spell. A tin whistle flutters around three stone chimes
for "Part 3," and the harmonics attained in this and in "Part 4" sound like a
granite actually responsible. There were no overdubs on the album, so the
occasional church bells are heard far off in the background to provide an
additional element of unscripted ambience. "Part 6" is enchanting in this
regard, along with being the only track to feature vocals (from fellow "rocker"
Gunther Federer). It makes a fitting lullaby of prayer to close out the album.
Like most Stephan Micus albums, this is not world music, but certainly music
from some foreign place within this world. You still can't get blood from a stone, but Daucher and Micus can certainly get life out of one.
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