Third Coast Percussion – Perspectives

Elfman, Danny, Glass, Philip

Third Coast Percussion

CDR 90000210

Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion, whose artistry blends "creative fearlessness with reverent precision" (BBC Music Magazine), offers an album of enterprising collaborations and world-premiere recordings of works written or arranged expressly for the Chicago-based percussion quartet, representing four different approaches to composing concert music.
Danny Elfman's Percussion Quartet, structured like a four-movement symphony, shares distinctive traits heard in his Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated films scores, as well as hints of African balofon, Indonesian gamelan, and Shostakovich. Great admirers of composer Philip Glass, Third Coast arranged Glass's solo piano Metamorphosis No. 1 for marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, and melodica. Rubix emerged from Third Coast Percussion's improvisational collaboration with virtuosic, cutting-edge flute duo Flutronix, who also perform on the recording. Critically acclaimed electronic musician and composer Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) composed her seven-movement Perspective as electronic tracks, without music notation.
Third Coast transformed this work of "beautiful complexity" into a version they could perform live as a quartet.

Works:

• Danny Elfman: Percussion Quartet
• Philip Glass: Metamorphosis No. 1
• Jlin: Perspective
• Flutronix, Third Coast Percussion: Rubix

CD x 1

Cedille Records

13.05.2022

735131921022