Arnold Dreyblatt -Propellers In Love -Superior Viaduct LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Propellers in Love - Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings

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& The Orchestra Of Excited Strings

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Propellers In Love by Arnold Dreyblatt, released 23 March 2017, includes the following tracks: "Pedal Tone Dance", "Odd & Even" and more. This version of Propellers In Love comes as a 1xLP. The vinyl is pressed as a opaque disc. - & THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS

Vinyl LP pressing. Arnold Dreyblatt has been called "the most rock 'n' roll of all the composers to emerge from New York's downtown scene in the 1970s." Dreyblatt founded The Orchestra Of Excited Strings in 1979, harnessing unusual tuning intervals to an exuberant performance style. Propellers In Love, the Orchestra's second album - originally released in 1986. On Propellers In Love, simple song titles - "Odd & Even," "Harmonics," "Bowing" - belie intricate harmonic structures. Dreyblatt's modified instruments - a contrabass and miniature piano fitted with piano wire along with violin, all tuned in just intonation - undergo the Orchestra's rapid, staccato attacks. Sparkling timbres dance above interlocking rhythmic patterns moored by sparse yet propulsive percussion ("Pedal Tone Dance" and the title track). Throughout, the Orchestra's perpetual motion achieves a tremulous and exquisite density. Thirty years since it's initial release, Propellers In Love remains a peerless work of second-generation American minimalism. This first-time domestic release is recommended for fans of Glenn Branca, Ellen Fullman and Charlemagne Palestine.

Recorded at the Black Box, München. Produced by Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin, in co-operation with Gasteig Betriebsgesselschaft mbH, München. The string instruments perform all in a "just" microtonal tuning system derived from the natural overtone series. The Contrabass Bodies are strung with unwound steel wire and are struck by bass bows. The Miniature Pianoforte has been rescaled and has feltless hammers and no dampers. The instruments are amplified and mixed in performance. The musicians have participated in the development of these pieces during a one-year "workshop" period at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

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SV117

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