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01. Reidemeister Move - Arcanum 17
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ARTIST
REIDEMEISTER MOVE
TITLE
Arcanum 17
FORMAT
CD/BOOK
LABEL
RECITAL
CATALOG #
R 052CD
R 052CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
11/30/2018
"
Reidemeister Move
's
Arcanum 17
is a sound novella recorded in 2012 in remote Eastern Quebec. Reidemeister Move is
Christopher Williams
, a composer and contrabass player who worked with
Ben Patterson
(amongst an army of other mentors) and
Robin Hayward
, a microtonal tubist and composer who has performed music written for him by
Christian Wolff
and
Alvin Lucier
.
Arcanum 17
, based on the
André Breton
novel (1945) of the same name, was co-written by Williams and
Charlie Morrow
(one may recall that Recital published Morrow's fabulous
Toot! Too
LP last year (R 041LP, 2017)). Charlie introduced me to Williams in late-2016 (introducing is one of Charlie's specialties). Once I discovered Christopher's association with Fluxus composers and
Malcolm Goldstein
, I figured our conversations would go late into the night. We did not talk, though. And our first meeting consisted of Christopher sitting me down to play a piece of his music. I was initially turned off by the situation: such a bold gesture from a relative stranger (a bottle of wine and banter would normally be on the menu for such an occasion). We turned the lights to a dim glow in my living room and he played the CD for me all the way through: 45 minutes of hyper-silent listening. I sank into the experience with comfort and ease with the first wash of water from the speakers.
Arcanum 17
is paced perfectly: field recordings, whispered narration, and cloudy bass and tuba streams fall in and out of frame with cinematic grace. A transportive phenomenon of an album, it sonically echoes Williams' description of the Breton novel: 'A thick, existential little book, a reckoning of and with everything that brings him here: Canadian wildlife, the morning star, the myth of Melusina, feminism, the French education system, the ecstasy of newfound love. His alchemical blurring of prose and poetry, dream and waking states, natural and psychological landscapes, and past, present and future, brings these topics inimitably together. Always on the cusp of development but never quite.' I now am grateful for the serious listening lesson that Christopher sat me down for: both because the sound piece was beautiful, and as a reminder to treat your art with respect and to not slight the weight of your passions."--
Sean McCann
, October 2018.
Includes 9″ x 6″ 20-page color pamphlet with photos and program notes. Edition of 200.
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