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Harry Partch - Bitter Music (2012)

Harry Partch - Bitter Music (2012)

BAND/ARTIST: Harry Partch

  • Title: Bitter Music
  • Year Of Release: 2012
  • Label: Bridge
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 03:16:21
  • Total Size: 764 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1
01. No. 1, Preface - 00:07:26
02. No. 2, June 11, 1935, Santa Rosa, California - 00:14:41
03. No. 3, June 15, Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta - 00:09:46
04. No. 4, June 24, Today Is My Birthday - 00:06:06
05. No. 5, London, October 1934 - 00:03:35
06. No. 6, By the Rivers of Babylon - 00:03:25
07. No. 7, I Draw My Last Bow, and There Is Silence - 00:11:58
08. No. 8, Wimbledon, London, March 1935 - 00:13:05

CD 2
09. No. 9, Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935 - 00:13:37
10. No. 10, July 20, Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding - 00:07:42
11. No. 11, July 25, Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington - 00:11:42
12. No. 12, August 5, Toledo - 00:08:47
13. No. 13, August 11, SERA Camp, Ingot - 00:07:00
14. No. 14, September 1, Cisco - 00:13:02

CD 3
15. No. 15, October 22 , Nearing Monterey - 00:08:16
16. No. 16, Letter form Hobo Pablo - 00:03:29
17. No. 17, Near Lodi, I Cut the Huge Tokays - 00:06:09
18. No. 18, October 24, Leaving Big Sur - 00:09:44
19. No. 19, October 30, Big Creek - 00:10:31
20. No. 20, November 15, Leaving Santa Barbara - 00:09:45
21. No. 21, December, 1935, Night, Four Black Walls - 00:08:07
22. No. 22, February 1, 1936, San Bernadino - 00:04:37
23. No. 23, Postlude - 00:03:51

The first volume of Bridge's Music of Harry Partch consists of a reading of his Depression-era journal and fragmentary pieces he wrote while traveling up and down the west coast of the United States, living as a hobo. During 1935 and early 1936, Partch kept a diary he called Bitter Music, which included drawings and musical sketches about the people and songs he heard around him. Over time, the book was destroyed, though it was preserved on microfilm; some of Partch's drawings and musical ideas are presented in the booklet included with this three-CD set by the PARTCH ensemble. The text is read by John Schneider, and Garry Eister provides the vocals and piano for the pieces that appeared in the diary or were referred to in its pages. This is a prodigious amount of material for listeners to get through, since most of the tracks are spoken word, and the musical snippets are intermittent and easy to miss because of their brevity. Students of Partch's music will recognize certain idiosyncrasies of melody and the colloquial delivery that informed later pieces, such as Barstow and U.S. Highball, though little here anticipates the novel tunings, instrumentation, and techniques of his mature works. Instead, this is a revelation of Partch's life as a transient, and day-to-day concerns dominate his entries. The last track on the third disc is a short recording of Partch's voice, briefly recounting the origins of Bitter Music.




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