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X-Legged Sally, The Smith Quartet

Bereft Of A Blissful Union

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Music by Peter Vermeersch's X-Legged Sally with The Smith Quartet, written for a 1996 dance production by Wim Vandekeybus and released in 1997: chamber jazz and string writing, including the 24-minute Brungle.

X-Legged Sally, the Belgian ensemble founded by composer Peter Vermeersch in 1988, wrote much of its music for the dance company Ultima Vez of choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. Bereft Of A Blissful Union, issued in 1997, contains the score for Vandekeybus's 1996 production of the same name, played by the band together with the string quartet The Smith Quartet.

The strings change the band's sound considerably. Long passages are closer to contemporary chamber music than to the brass-and-guitar attack of the earlier records, and the 24-minute Brungle develops slowly across several moods. Alongside Vermeersch's own pieces there are arrangements of Nuages Gris, Der Doppelgänger and the folk song Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair.

Japanese CD reissue by Belle Antique in a paper sleeve with obi, SHM-CD, remastered.

Details
Cat. number: BELLE 152344
Year: 2015

Release notes

Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve, with obi-strip.

Tracklist
1Nuages Gris4:15
2Brungle23:53
33 Of 2 Portretten Van Een Drenkeling - Deel 25:28
4Out Of The Pit2:57
5Birdcage10:15
6Der Doppelgänger3:41
7Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair7:08
Credits
浅野 淳
Liner Notes
Kazuo Ogino
Remastered By