Waller, Michael Vincent: Moments
Waller, Michael Vincent: Moments
Format: CD
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Artist: Waller, Michael Vincent
Label: Unseen Worlds
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 744790142501
Genre: Classical Artists
In essence, the sound of the piano comes in two parts: it's attack and it's decay. The striking of a hammer is followed by the resonance of a string or strings. (Much the same might be said about the vibraphone, as it happens.) This dual quality of sound comes to mind when listening to Moments by New York-based composer Michael Vincent Waller. Performed by pianist R. Andrew Lee and vibraphonist William Winant, Moments - his third album, following Trajectories (Recital, 2017) and The South Shore (XI, 2015) - draws on Western classical music tradition in it's most archetypal forms through it's use of modal melodies, triadic harmonies and metered rhythms. Yet the emotional heart of the music is not in attack, but resonance. The afterlife of sounds. Those elements that can't be grasped and placed into easy historical categories. Behind his surface attacks Waller finds hazy, edgeless zones that draw us downwards, into introspection - an "inward gaze." Waller's music is often compared to that of Erik Satie, and there is certainly something Satie-like in it's concision, it's subtle asymmetries and it's lack of ornament. But where Satie's Gnossiennes, Nocturnes and Gymnopédies were blank canvases, deliberately signifying nothing, Waller's pieces are vessels to be filled. That is partly an effect of titles: Waller's pieces on this disc are all 'moments' of autobiographical poignancy - memorials, birthdays, homecomings; friends, teachers, family members. We are clearly invited to invest certain emotional expectations into these sounds. Liner notes by Tim Rutherford-Johnson and "Blue" Gene Tyranny. Mastered by Denis Blackham for digital and compact disc. Mastered and cut for vinyl by Rashad Becker.
Tracks:
1.1 For Papa
1.2 Return from la - I
1.3 Return from la - II
1.4 Return from la - III
1.5 Return from la - IV
1.6 Divertimento
1.7 For Pauline
1.8 Jennifer
1.9 Nocturnes - No. 1
1.10 Nocturnes - No. 4
1.11 Love - I. Valentine
1.12 Love - II. Baby's Return
1.13 Love - III. Images
1.14 Love - IV. Sizing
1.15 Roman
1.16 Stolen Moments
1.17 Vibrîono Studio
1.18 Bounding
