Release Date: 24 September 2012
Label: Nmc Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363017626
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Composer/Series: Spine
Description
In her recent work, Davies has found an accommodation between the worlds of the avant-garde and experimental rock, between – in the words of one critic – Xenakis and Prince. Filled with sounds of cracking, slapping, whipping and scraping, it is music that is utterly contemporary, inhabiting the same urban landscape as industrial techno and electronica.
The works on this new recording include make black white, a reconstruction of Dowland's Flow, My Tears performed by viol consort Concordia; the ritualistic Dark Ground for percussion (Joby Burgess); Loopholes and Lynchpins, a reworking – or unravelling even – of Scarlatti's keyboard sonata (Huw Watkins) and the title work, spine, performed by Azalea and inspired by the composer's interest in trilobites.
Tracklisting
Dobrinka Tabakova; Lora Tchekoratova; Georgy Valtchev; Nikola Takov; Rumen Cvetkov; Alexander Somov
BBC Philharmonic; Manchester Camerata; London Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers; Andrew Gourlay; Pekk
Exaudi; James Weeks
Vimbayi Kaziboni; Joseph Havlat; BBC Philharmonic; Piatti Quartet
Plus-Minus Ensemble
Decibel
Xenia Pestova-Bennett, Stephen Richardson, Claire Booth, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sian
Zoe Martlew, Ben Goldscheider, Lucy Schaufer, Huw Watkins, Mark Simpson, Alessandro Fisher, Lana Bo
Robert Mitchell & Corey Mwamba
Peter Materna & Jasper van't Hof
Kevin Figes
Joe Kaptein
Lorne Lofsky/Nigel Price Quartet
Various Artists
Antonio Farao
Aldo Romano, Louis Sclavis & Henri Texier
