Higgins, Patrick: Bachanalia
Higgins, Patrick: Bachanalia
Format: CD
Wanting to order from us over the holiday period but need some more information. We are here to help! Please see our Christmas Shipping page for more information.
On average, orders containing available-to-ship items are processed and dispatched within 1-2 business days, although this is not guaranteed.
Orders containing preorder items will ship as 1 fulfillment once all items in the order are available to ship.
Please note, Tower Records Merchandise and Exclusives are dispatched separately. On average, these items take 3-4 business days to dispatch, although this is not guaranteed.
The estimated shipping times that are displayed at checkout are from the point of dispatch.
See our shipping policy for more information.
We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item(s) to make a return.
For orders created between November 20th 2024 and December 31st 2024, we have extended our normal return period. For orders made between this period, customers have up to 60 days from the receipt of goods to return an item. Please see our Christmas Returns page for more information.
To be eligible for a return of an unwanted item, your item must be in the same condition that you received it and in its original packaging.
In the unfortunate situation that a product is damaged/faulty/incorrect, let us know and we will endeavor to correct any issue as soon as possible.
Please see our refund policy for more information.
Artist: Higgins, Patrick
Label: Telegraph Harp
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 703610875272
Genre: Rock
People have been reinventing Bach for nearly 300 years but there has never been anything quite like Patrick Higgins' Bachanalia. Equal parts gorgeous and severe, these highly original arrangements of JS Bach prove the endless possibilities contained within the master's pen. Bachanalia emerges from a dynamic relationship among three main elements: Higgins' own virtuosic classical guitar playing, stereo electronic processing, and the recording spaces themselves. Truly site specific, it makes unique use of the extreme and special acoustics of St. Cecilia's Church in Brooklyn and Future-Past Studios, an upstate New York recording complex housed in a historic Lutheran church. While Bach's compositions will be familiar to almost everyone, Higgins gives us a mesmerizing glimpse into the future. Described by The New Yorker as one of the "prime movers of the local avant-garde," and an "exacting avant-classical guitarist" by Time Out NY, Patrick Higgins is a New York-based composer/performer of experimental music. Higgins has composed works for some of the nation's leading ensembles, from chamber orchestra works, percussion cycles, and string quartets to smaller ensembles and soloists. He has scored music for television, museum exhibitions, and films both short-form and feature-length. Higgins plays guitar and composes in Zs, hailed by The New York Times as "one of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York. " As a producer and studio owner at Future-Past, Higgins has helped produce records for The National, Josephine Foster, John Zorn and Dither Quartet, Mantra Percussion, Zs, Eric Wubbels and Josh Modney, Ensemble Contemporaneous, Vicky Chow, and many more. For Bachanalia, Higgins and co-engineer Ben Greenberg worked with a collection of rare vintage Neumann, RCA, and Sennheiser microphones to carefully capture a spatialized natural room reverb. This provided a palate to warp, manipulate, and re-process the sound in precise counterpoint to Bach's compositions. The end result weaves together live performance and studio composition. The musical arc reaches from light to dark, both in the emotional timbre of the compositions and in the density of the electronic elements. In the final three tracks ("Minuet," "Chaconne," "Aria da Capo"), both the experimentation and emotional intensity are pushed to new heights. This is highlighted in the "Chaconne," Bach's infamous death mass written after the passing of his first wife, presented here as a 14 minute epic recorded in two continuous takes. While any piece on Bachanalia can stand alone, the album articulates Patrick Higgins' singular narrative vision from start to finish.
Tracks:
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
1.3 Violin Partida No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: Prelude
1.4 Lute Suite No. 1 in E Minor, BWV 996: Bourée
1.5 Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: Gavotte
1.6 Cantata, BWV 147: Chorale
1.7 Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: Minuet 1 - Minuet 2
1.8 Violin Partida No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne
1.9 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria Da Capo
Audio Sample:
All soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.
