Discord (CD Slipcase)
Key item features
This release is an enhanced CD containing both a full audio program and
multimedia computer files. It features spoken-word performances by Laurie
Anderson, David Byrne, Patti Smith, David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, David Torn,
Bernardo Bertolucci and others. A Macintosh or Personal Computer is required to view the enhanced content.
Ryuichi Sakamoto is best known as a film music composer and a founding member of the pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra. DISCORD finds him employing a symphony orchestra in a nearly hour-long work of four movements whose titles ("Grief," "Anger," "Prayer" and "Salvation") reveal a desire to make an important statement.
The work, which is actually called 'Untitled 01,' begins with the slow deliberate buildup of a sad, pentatonic theme in "Grief," which gives way to insistent repetitive percussion in "Anger." "Prayer" is an extended series of soliloquies for bassoon and oboe, while "Salvation," perhaps the most successful section, offers a directly emotional return of an earlier theme, repeated more or less unvaried, but with increasing emphasis, in the manner of Gï¾¢recki's Third Symphony.
The orchestra, in a live performance, is recorded very closely, with the soundstage occasionally permeated by the distant, almost subliminal sonic murmurings of DJ Spooky. The CD is ROM-compatible, offering a graphics program which accompanies the music, but is not essential to an understanding of it.
Musician (6/98, pp.89-90) - "...a concerto in four movements for orchestra, piano, electric guitar, and DJ....cyclical structures and dense minor-key tonalities that result in absorptive, trace-like themes...suggest--even quote from...Ginastera, Luciano Berio, and Ralph Vaughan Williams..."
Fanfare (5-6/98, pp.190-91) - "...Although development in the traditional sense is missing, Sakamoto's orchestration is very proficient, the yearning melodies very effective....I liked the piece....Fans of the Pﾄrt and Gorecki will probably like it too..."
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- PerformerSAKAMOTO RYUICHI
- Music genreTrance, Dance / DJ
- Media formatCD
- Has parental advisory labelN
- Number of discs1
- Record labelSONY MASTERWORKS
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This release is an enhanced CD containing both a full audio program and
multimedia computer files. It features spoken-word performances by Laurie
Anderson, David Byrne, Patti Smith, David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, David Torn,
Bernardo Bertolucci and others. A Macintosh or Personal Computer is required to view the enhanced content.
Ryuichi Sakamoto is best known as a film music composer and a founding member of the pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra. DISCORD finds him employing a symphony orchestra in a nearly hour-long work of four movements whose titles ("Grief," "Anger," "Prayer" and "Salvation") reveal a desire to make an important statement.
The work, which is actually called 'Untitled 01,' begins with the slow deliberate buildup of a sad, pentatonic theme in "Grief," which gives way to insistent repetitive percussion in "Anger." "Prayer" is an extended series of soliloquies for bassoon and oboe, while "Salvation," perhaps the most successful section, offers a directly emotional return of an earlier theme, repeated more or less unvaried, but with increasing emphasis, in the manner of Gï¾¢recki's Third Symphony.
The orchestra, in a live performance, is recorded very closely, with the soundstage occasionally permeated by the distant, almost subliminal sonic murmurings of DJ Spooky. The CD is ROM-compatible, offering a graphics program which accompanies the music, but is not essential to an understanding of it.
Musician (6/98, pp.89-90) - "...a concerto in four movements for orchestra, piano, electric guitar, and DJ....cyclical structures and dense minor-key tonalities that result in absorptive, trace-like themes...suggest--even quote from...Ginastera, Luciano Berio, and Ralph Vaughan Williams..."
Fanfare (5-6/98, pp.190-91) - "...Although development in the traditional sense is missing, Sakamoto's orchestration is very proficient, the yearning melodies very effective....I liked the piece....Fans of the Pﾄrt and Gorecki will probably like it too..."
