Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Cantaloupe - Cd / Cantaloupe Music
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 713746313425
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Robert Black
Description
Recorded and filmed among the arches, cliffs and otherworldly rock formations of the Moab Desert in Utah, Possessed documents one musician’s self-actualized journey toward musical discovery and enlightenment. Equipped with only his upright bass and an intrepid production crew, Robert Black ventured into Moab in the summer of 2013 with the specific goal of engaging the environment itself in a duet, improvising his way toward a finished recording that perfectly captures the haunting majesty, mood and power of the American desert. As the longtime bassist for New York’s genre-busting Bang on a Can All-Stars, Black is thoroughly tapped into the creative current of today’s new music. He’s also uniquely attuned to the areas where acoustic music and the sounds of nature can intersect, creating a third and totally unexpected entity that surges with unusually ecstatic energy. “Listen closely and feel the music,” he encourages in the album’s liner notes. 'The sound, the look, the feel -- it affects me. It gets inside my head, inside my body. My hands move, the bass sings, the landscape responds and directs the movements, controls the sound. The music comes...from I don’t know where. I close my eyes. I lose myself. I give in. I surrender. I am transported. I am...possessed.'
Tracklisting
David Handler
Vicky Chow
The Crossing, JACK Quartet, the musicians of the University of Michigan Department of Chamber Music
Lisa Moore
Jason Treuting; Iarla O Lionaird; Sam Amidon; Angelica Negron
Alex Weiser; Annie Rosen; Lee Dionne; Yasmina Spiegelberg
Rakhi Singh
Molly Netter; Sarah Brailey; Trio Mediaeval; Kate Maroney; Gene Stenger; Dashon Burton; Jeffrey Dou
Robert Black
Robert Black
