Garland / Winant -Moon Viewing Music -CDBL CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1: Moon Viewing Music: I. Living alone in the woods... (4:21)
2: Moon Viewing Music: II. Even more so... (4:49)
3: Moon Viewing Music: III. Only the moon... (5:03)
4: Moon Viewing Music: IV. As I look at the moon... (9:37)
5: Moon Viewing Music: V. When I die... (5:24)
6: Moon Viewing Music: Vi. I cleansed the mirror... (4:56)

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"Moon Viewing Music" is a quiet, mesmerizing work for large Thai-style gongs and tam-tam, performed by the celebrated Grammy-nominated percussionist William Winant. The composer writes: "For me, moon viewing is a year-round activity... This cycle was composed in the winter. There is a unique light and intensity in a winter moon... There is also a special silence... an inscrutable stillness." "Garland's music seems to be about the sheer expressive power of sound itself." (Fanfare magazine) "[Garland is] an artist who knows what he's doing, and then does it-repeatedly, each time out. He's a marvelous artist; I admire his work a lot." (Harold Budd) "Percussionist William Winant has been the avant-elite's go-to percussionist for more than 35 years." (SPIN magazine) Peter Garland's music is informed by his well-traveled ear and intense personal vision. Since the 1970s, his pieces have been marked by a "radical consonance" and simplification of structure and performed around the world by such noted performers as Aki Takahashi, Herbert Henck, and Kronos Quartet. Also a musicologist and writer, he championed the work of such composers as Revueltas, Partch, and Nancarrow long before their music became fashionable. Grammy-nominated percussionist William Winant has performed with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time, including John Cage, Anthony Braxton, and Kronos Quartet.

?For me moon viewing is a year-round activity, though I?m aware that it is associated with autumn in the Japanese literary tradition. This cycle was composed in the winter. There is a unique light and intensity in a winter moon, as it rises in the darkest days (nights) of the year, and shines on a landscape of trees stripped of their leaves and of white snow that amplifies and reflects the moonlight, often creating an eerie sense of daylight?further reinforced by the shadows cast on the snow. There is also a special silence because of the extreme cold, and the absence of animal, bird, and insect sounds. If autumn is the moonlight of nostalgia, winter is the moonlight of loneliness, an inscrutable stillness.? (Peter Garland) 1. ?Living alone in the woods?? (after Ry?kan) Living alone in the woods few visitors cast shadows. How clean the moon gleaming in the sky. Ry?kan Taigu (1758-1831) 2. ?Even more so?? (after Buson) Even more so because of being alone the moon is a friend. Yosa Buson (1716-84; trans. Yuki Sawa and Edith Marcombe Shiffert) 3. ?Only the moon?? (after Saigy?) Only the moon high in the sky as an empty reminder- but if looking at it, we just remember, our two hearts may meet. Saigy? (1118-90; trans. Burton Watson) 4. ?As I look at the moon?? (after Saigy?) As I look at the moon my mind goes roaming, till I live again the autumn that I knew long ago. Saigy? (1118-90; from Japanese Tanka Poetry) 5. ?When I die?? (after Hyakuri) When I die what I shall see will be the lustrous moon. Hyakuri (?-1727; from Japanese Death Poems, Charles E. Tuttle Co.) 6. ?I cleansed the mirror?? (after Renseki) I cleansed the mirror of my heart-now it reflects the moon. Renseki (n.d.; from Japanese Death Poems, Charles E. Tuttle Co.)

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CDBL52.2

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