Noah Creshevsky Discography of CDs

Noah Creshevsky CD discography Cluver, Martha Creshevsky: To Know and Not to Know CD Personnel: Noah Creshevsky (electronics); Chris Mann (vocals); Beth Griffith, Martha Cluver (soprano); Al Margolis (clarinet). Audio Mixer: Tom Hamilton.

Noah Creshevsky albums Noah Creshevsky's albums for the Tzadik label are probably enjoying a higher profile than the rest of his output. Luckily, they happen to be his best ones, in terms of ideas, pace, and listenability. The Twilight of the Gods features eight works of what the composer calls "hyperrealist music" -- music made from sounds found in the real world, reorganized into sequences that are humanly impossible to perform. It usually results in extremely active and intense music. However, this particular album sounds less hyperactive and is easier to listen to, which doesn't lessen its impact or its sheer power of wonder. The Twilight of the Gods is bookended by "band songs," for lack of a better phrase: "Götterdämmerung" features the klezmer music group the Klez Dispensers, while "Happy Ending" features a jazz quartet, Ray Marchica & Sons of Sound. Both bands have agreed to be extensively sampled by Creshevsky, who has then composed impossibly busy tracks while retaining some of the identity of the performers. One thinks of John Oswald's plunderphonics and Bob Ostertag's stunning sample workout Say No More. Between these two songs are six more works. "Omaggio" and "Estancia" use unidentified samples from the classical world (an orchestra in the first, a Spanish classical guitar in the second) and manage to blur the line between human performance and machine performance, although, on that front, "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" achieves even better results, its blending of orchestral and vocal sources producing a gripping 11-minute oratorio. Baritone singer Thomas Buckner provided samples ...

Noah Creshevsky music CDs The works in this CD are supposed to be "constructed from sounds that are found in our shared environment...handled in ways that are somehow To say this album is eclectic or quite quirky would be an understatement, and a ...

Noah Creshevsky discography Track Listing of songs: Strategic Defense Initiative; Highway; Circuit; Drummer; Great Performances; Sonata; In Other Words; Cantiga;

Track Listing of songs: Rounded with a Sleep; La Sonnambula; Lisa Barnard Redux; What If; Tomomi Adachi Redux II; Kindness of Strangers; In Memoriam;

Audio Mixers: Tom Hamilton; Noah Creshevsky; Al Margolis. Personnel: Noah Creshevsky (electronics); Al Margolis (electronics).

Track Listing of songs: Fanfare; Sha; Twice; Who; Et Puis; Gone Now; Breathless; Nude Ascending;

Composer Noah Creshevsky states, "Much of my musical vocabulary consists of familiar bits of words and vocal instrumental music which are deconstructed into minute fragments, subjected to a variety of electronic processes, and finely reassembled in ways ...

Track Listing of songs: Variations; Electric String quartet; Memento Mori; Electric Partita; Talea;

Track Listing of songs: Politics as Usual; Borrowed Time; Private Lives; Coup d'État;