tracks

The Discofication Of The Mongols
S'Wonderful (That The Man I Love Watches Over Me)

notes

The first piece is a Violin Concerto featuring the musical wunderkind, Ben Bowman. Mr. Bowman soars, bops and weaves over an alternately ominous and ecstatic shrinking/claustrophobic CPU landscape which consists of all things Chinese (including a famous ancient Chinese melody as the cantus firmus). It eventually morphs into the tragic irony of 70’s, western, 4 on the floor, disco. In the end it’s a melancholic commentary on western hegemony. The second work is a Flute Concerto, featuring the seasoned, uber-virtuoso, Doug Stewart. He nimbly leaps, dodges, and swirls around three mashed George Gershwin songs in a quasi, dirty-thirties dream world. The real raison d’être of this piece is it’s hell bent on blurring the numbers 2 and 3 in a beyond-human range of tempos. The first tune, 'The Spawn of Abe'(28:11) jams on a mid-eastern flavoured, apocalyptic clash of the 3 monotheistic religions, while 'Narcissus auf Bali' (39:53) grooves out on the Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo romping through the jungles of Bali.

credits

Composed By – MC Maguire
Flute – Douglas Stewart (3) (tracks: 2)
Violin – Ben Bowman
Composed By – MC Maguire

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