vhf#118 As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color
album release concert
July 11th
Carrie Haddad Photographs 318 Warren Street Hudson New York
8:00 pm
$5 at door
Come and enjoy the music and visuals of Alexander Turnquist and Wires Under Tension in a very unique setting in one of the Hudson Valley’s Premier multimedia art venues.
In celebration of the release of his new album “As the twilight Crane Dreams in Color” to be released July 14th, Alexander will be joined by a small ensemble of musicians to play in its full entirety the new album.
To add to the excitement of the evening Brooklyn based post-classical, fully electrified sonic wizards Wires Under Tension, a side project of Christopher Tignor and Theo Metz of Slow Six will be performing their own brand of swirling beat driven beauty.
Revolver press release:
“As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color is the second full-length from New York-based guitarist Alexander Turnquist, who defies expectations with a set of hypnotic epics that owe more to classic minimalism than current notions of solo guitar.
Forgoing most of the extended techniques of his debut, Turnquist lays down a thick blanket of 12-string that sets up persistent, loop-like patterns in the music. Simple and lovely strings, piano, and percussion provide the melody, carrying most of the movement in the pieces. Turnquist uses extraordinary control and restraint–the orchestrations are as reductionist as possible, with no cringe-inducing “string drama” or unnecessary virtuosity. An almost-monomaniacal tremolo thrum of the guitar dominates the album, but there is a lengthy ambient breakdown that occurs mid-way through the 18-minute “The REM Cycle – Dream Phase” that is a thing of elliptical and drifting beauty.
As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color is a bold statement even in the context of the frequent micro-parsing of styles in the sub-underground–there’s really not much else out there like it.”
Praise for Slow Six / Christopher Tignor
“If you can imagine a dream collaboration between Philip Glass, Miles Davis, Cluster, and Battles, you might have some idea of what Slow Six is capable of…9/10.”
– Foxy Digitails
“In these two releases, Slow Six accomplishes something very rare in creating spellbinding
art music that’s wholly accessible to the masses without suffering any compromise to its
artistic integrity.”
- Textura (Canada)
$5 at door, doors open at 7:00 pm show starts at 8:00 pm
www.wiresundertension.com
www.myspace.com/alexanderturnquist
www.carriehaddadgallery.com