Fink -Celesta -Cold Blue Label CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

1: Call (1:31)
2: Cold Pastoral (2:32)
3: Bells (1:38)
4: From the Singing River (2:12)
5: First Star, Last Star (2:54)
6: Post-Impression (2:19)
7: Ruins (4:44)
8: Sunless (1:39)
9: Nocturne for the Three Times (4:02)
10: Softly Yellowed Moon (1:41)
11: Triptych (6:02)
12: After the End (1:54)

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Celesta" is a suite of a dozen quietly transcendent, gem-like celesta solos by noted Los Angeles composer Michael Jon Fink, who also performs them. As each piece unfolds, revealing itself through elegantly fashioned variation, the listener is drawn into a highly nuanced, lyrical sound world. Taken as a whole, the collection creates it's own graceful musical arc, and is certainly among the largest statements ever composed for the celesta alone. The album was recorded on one of Los Angeles's finest five-octave Schiedmayer celestas. Fink's usually quiet, lyrical music has been described by the "Los Angeles Times" as "lustrous," "metaphysically tinged" and "unapologetically tranquil." LA Weekly has written that his music is "of ethereal simplicity... he has shaped and refined his spare style greatly-it is distinctly his own.

"Celesta" is a suite of a dozen elegant gem-like celesta solos, performed by the composer. This set of pieces, taken as a whole, is perhaps the largest statement for the celesta as a solo instrument. (Beautifully recorded on one of LA?s finest five-octave Schiedmayer celestas.) Fink?s characteristically reductive but expressive music has been described by the Los Angeles Times as ?lustrous,? ?metaphysically tinged,? and ?unapologetically tranquil.? LA Weekly has written that his music is ?of ethereal simplicity . . . it is distinctly his own.?

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CDBL53.2

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