Label: Unseen Worlds
Catalog#: UW07LP/UW07CD
Format: Vinyl, LP/CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2012
DISCOGS AMAZON OFFICIAL
1 13 Detours 12:15
2 She Wore Red Shoes 11:27
3 George Fox Searches 19:26
4 Intuition 5:51
70年代後期より活動、Lovely Musicからミニマル/アヴァン・ポップな作品を発表している作曲家/ピアニスト"Blue" Gene Tyranny（ブルー・ジーン・ティラニー）の2004年から2010年にかけて録音された2012年作「デツアー」（回り道の意）。抑制的な曲調、細部まで音響的な細工が重ねられた美しいピアノの旋律は、親しみやすく耳を奪われます。Lubomyr MelnykやElodie Lauten、最近ではLaurie Spiegelなど錚々たる電子音楽/ミニマル音楽家の重要作品をリイシューするUnseen Worldsより。（カタログUW01は1978年「Out Of The Blue」の再発）
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We will begin 2012, Unseen Worlds Records’ fifth year as a label, touching upon two firsts – our first issuance of an album of newly written and never before released material, and the first artist we did a release with, the great “Blue” Gene Tyranny. Since our re-release of his first album, Out of the Blue, in 2007, “Blue” Gene Tyranny’s other early Lovely Music LPs – the cleverly studious Just for the Record and the prescient, still-new sounding The Intermediary – have been duly released in digital formats by Lovely, and his song cycle / lyrical discourse album The Invention of Memory / The Somewhere Songs came out on the Mutable Music label.
Detours is “Blue” Gene Tyranny’s first album of new piano works since 2003’s Take Your Time. A beautifully recorded collection of tracks composed between 2004 and 2010, Detours belongs to a rarefied class of supremely listenable and beautiful piano albums that are not encumbered by any new-age shabbiness. It possesses the sort of timeless and elegant romanticism so unpretentious and accomplished it seems to at once effortlessly canonize itself.
The four pieces on Detours have their origins in disparate sources of inspiration – a longtime friend from San Francisco, a chance visit to a Quaker meetinghouse, a choreographed dance, philosophical intuition. Harmonic discourses begin at a pre-determined location and wind up at a totally unexpected place. Tyranny is a master pianist, able to follow mood and impulse to uncharted new territory. - Unseen Worlds
"13 Detours" recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland CA, Feb 14 2005.
"She Wore Read Shoes" recorded at Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland CA, Feb 20 2005.
"George Fox Searches" and "Intuition" recorded at System II, Brooklyn NY, July 21 2010.
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