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01. ALAN LICHT - A New York Minute
02. ALAN LICHT - Freaky Friday
03. ALAN LICHT - Muhammed Ali & the Crickets
04. ALAN LICHT - Another Sky
01. ALAN LICHT - 14, Second, Fifth
02. ALAN LICHT - Remington Khan ("Hearing Test" mix/12-string version)
ARTIST
TITLE
A New York Minute
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
XI 128CD XI 128CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/14/2015

2003 release. Two CDs for the price of one. Alan Licht wears many hats. Over the years, he's been a curator of music as well as a tireless performer. And he's as well-known an author as he is a musician. It's one thing to have eclectic tastes; it's another to make a practice of them. While Licht's earlier records have seamlessly melded his improvisational guitar playing with extended plundered sounds, A New York Minute takes things a few steps further. Instead of fusing the many sides of Licht into one monolithic mega-mix, this disc separates them into discrete compositions. There's a lot more at stake here: the guitar pieces are showcased as guitar pieces and the plundered works are just that. The conceptual tendencies in Licht no longer hide behind his talent as a guitarist; likewise, the guitar pieces are no longer propped on hooky concepts that take our attention away from his fretwork. The good news is that both work: Licht is as strong a conceptual artist as he is a composer.