CD Import

Grooved Whale

Lisa Walker

Item Details

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Catalogue Number
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EE1082
Number of Discs
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1
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Original Release Year
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2001
Format
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CD

Product Description

Here's a wholly new approach to making music for and from whale songs. Walker plays violin into underwater landscapes, and the resulting recordings are wonderfully rich raw material for her studio-based compositions. Aquatic canyon walls and open spaces create a cathedral-like presence to her sound, and she builds the pieces around especially interesting and well-recorded whale songs. She adds electronics that range from spacy to funky, and while the overall tone is embracingly atmospheric, she avoids new-age cliches, using her classical training to forge a musical response to the whales that has a musical complexity that remains delightfully lyrical. Walker has spent years pusuing three complementary paths: classical music training, cutting edge media technology, and field research in Alaska. She brings these diverse gifts together here in a way that will appeal to listeners across the soundscape spectrum.

Track List   

  • 01. Tenakee Feeding Call
  • 02. Transients
  • 03. Misticete
  • 04. Hawaii Gruv
  • 05. Boogie
  • 06. Vertigo
  • 07. ViolinLaugh
  • 08. Melancholy
  • 09. Backwards Unfolding
  • 10. Transfixed
  • 11. Winter Song
  • 12. Winter Song

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