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PRICE:
$23.50
$23.50
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ARTIST
SHEA, DAVID
TITLE
The Tower of Mirrors
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
SUB ROSA
CATALOG #
SR 094LP
SR 094LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
2/14/2020
25 years ago,
David Shea
released a crafty piece of complex philosophical and narrative audio collage:
The Tower of Mirrors
. Composed and produced in New York City, during September-October 1995, it includes 24 tracks, and features guests such as
David Morley
on analog synthesizer programming,
Dave Douglas
on trumpet,
Zeena Parkins
on piano and prepared piano, and
Jim Pugliese
on percussions. This is what David Shea had to say about it in 1995: "In 1994, I wrote a work based on the
Hsi-Yu Chi
novel for a large ensemble and sampler which used the 100 chapters as a map for creating an independent musical work.
The Tower of Mirrors
is a work that began as a collection of pieces for sampler solo and for sampler and solo instrumentalist. A series of 'mirrors' for solos and duos based on parts of the novel. Also, a collection of tributes to composers in ambient dance music, exotica, easy listening film music and experimental music formed separate points of entry. In particular, many of the great arrangers and composers of the period from 1955-64 who were the pioneers of stereo recording such as:
Esquivel
,
Marty Gold
,
The Three Suns
,
André Popp
..." 2019, looking into the (in)side mirror, David Shea says more about this particular experiment: "I'm reflecting today on the period of my life where I was immersed in the Chinese mythological Taoist/Buddhist stories of the Monkey King - Sun Wu Kung - titled, in English,
The Journey to the West
. I was also lost in sea of Hong Kong films and living in New York working in many of
John Zorn
's projects (
Elegy
being one of many high points) . . .
Tower of Mirrors
became a defining cross into to the last 20 years of my life. I felt thrown into the ethersphere during the years of 94-95 myself and I could not be more grateful to have created during and survived that time. I collaborated with so many during my travels and the credits are full of the people I was so lucky to have crossed paths with. I began a different path soon after this, with my interest in exploring Italian and Irish roots and reflecting on my teenage years of studying Taoism, Chan Buddhism, meditation, and martial arts and what followed was a long period of influence from
Giacinto Scelsci
and
Luc Ferrari
to traditional Chinese and Buddhist music..."
The Tower of Mirrors
was the third album of David Shea released by Sub Rosa.
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