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It is an important work in the Palestine mythos, embodying his total immersion in the power of the interval. \"It's probably his most systematic work . . . a step-by-step journey through the intervals of the octave,\" says Rrose. \"When we rehearsed it, we were noticing how each interval is like a universe of its own -- with its own history, emotions, and sonic qualities all mixed up together. Every time you move from one interval to the next, it feels like moving into another world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I love the interval,\" Palestine told me in a recent interview. \"I love when it plays with itself. That's what I learned from organ musics too. You can just do an interval, and if they're just slightly out of tune with each other, then they shimmer . . . they play themselves. And it sounds like somebody's playing lots of notes. In your ear, it's like an aural phenomenon . . . that's my whole concept. I make something that then does itself somehow. It continues by itself. So I don't have to always be there. And that makes my music a little less egocentric. So there's more space. Also for the listener — the ear plays with these things, and you're not always being given orders. Your ear isn't given orders all the time of what to listen for.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully recorded, with mastering by Rashad Becker of Dubplates and Mastering, The Golden Mean + Sheeenn feels expansive, radiant and hypnotic, opening new ears to its enduring mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRrose adds this note to listeners: \"Do not focus your attention on the notes being played, but on the ocean of overtones swimming, suspended, overhead, brushing against one another, kissing one another, melting into one another.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eaux","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50463940477259,"sku":"1063061","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50463941329227,"sku":"1063060","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"charrrlleemmma-gggneelanddddds-ss-cccrreatto-rrssssscccarillon-nnn-dingggdongggdingggzzzzzzz-ferrrr-sssofttt-divini-tiesssss-with-sttt-thomasss-dingg-gdongggdingggzzz-zzzz-ferrrr-tonyyy","title":"CHARRRLLEEMMMA GGGNEELANDDDDDS SS CCCRREATTO RRSSSSSCCCARILLON NNN DINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz ferrrr SSSOFTTT DIVINI TIESSSSS!!!!!!!!! with STTT THOMASSS DINGG GDONGGGDINGGGzzz zzzz ferrrr TONYYY","description":"\u003cp\u003eDINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz!!!!!!! In the newest record by the iconoclastic Brooklyn-born composer Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947), find two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century. On side A, a new piece recorded at the artist’s studio in Belgium—a high-ceiling, stuffed-animal-packed paradise he calls Charleworld—among friends and “divinities,” his name for the thousands of plush toys he’s amassed since the ’60s. On the flip side, Blank Forms Editions’ very first and long out-of-print release appears on vinyl for the first time: a cathartic street recording of the minimalist composer’s 2018 musical eulogy for his late friend Tony Conrad, performed on the bells of St. Thomas Episcopal Church where the two first met. Two mesmerizing “klanggdedangggebannggg” sessions in the Quasimodo of 53rd Street’s unmistakable improvisatory style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps more than any of his contemporaries in the bustling, cross-disciplinary downtown New York arts scene of the ’60s and ’70s, Charlemagne Palestine has embodied the notion of the artist as playful polymath, testing and transcending nearly every creative form imaginable in his more than six-decade career. Originally trained in Jewish sacred singing to be a cantor, he began his artistic life as a musician, studying piano and accordion, accompanying figures like Tiny Tim and Allen Ginsburg on percussion, using early synthesizers as an assistant to Alwin Nikolais, and eventually landing a long-running gig as the carillonneur at Midtown’s St. Thomas Episocal. This libertine spirit of experimentation soon led to adventures in other aesthetic arenas: making kinetic light sculptures with Len Lye, devising choreographed performances with Simone Forti, and producing over a dozen visceral videotapes with the Castelli Gallery. In the ’70s, he was particularly prominent on the burgeoning loft movement, becoming well-known for his sparse, intense, and exacting long-form piano concerts, that seemed to bend the very nature of time and space. Beginning in the ’80s, he spent decades in self-imposed exile from the new music scene, absconding to a palace in Europe and privately honing his hermetic sonic and visual practice, until his resurgence among record fanatics in the mid-’90s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blank Forms Editions","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50490172014923,"sku":"2102307","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Charlemagne_Palestine_-_CHARRRLLEEMMMA_GGGNEELANDDDDDS__5dde682a_thumbnail_4.png?v=1727653965"},{"product_id":"ttuunneesszz-duh-rruunneesszz-blue-tb7-series","title":"Ttuunneesszz Duh Rruunneesszz (Blue TB7 Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlemagne Palestine first started using electronic instruments in his music in the late 1960’s when he bought two prototype ‘Buchla’ tone generators. “Electronic instruments were very rare and exotic in the 1960’s.There were Moog’s around New York state. but they were only in universities who preciously guarded them from us young composers. so after all this time visiting The MoogSound Lab is like a dream come true for me.....to have so many oscillators all singing together is a truly beautiful experience. I am so glad i am still around and able to be making musics i first dreamt of 50 years ago”. These two releases come from our second ever UK lab session and is the first Charlemagne Palestine Moog Sound Lab. 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