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Chris Rainier

Chris Rainier Sings the Music of Harry Partch (LP)

Label: Bwaa

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

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€25.90
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Tip! *200 copies limited release* Chris Rainier is a South African musician and performer, raised in Australia but now based in London. He earned his PhD in Music there last year with a thesis on American composer and instrument builder Harry Partch. Accompanying that PhD is an album of renditions of compositions from Harry Partch's (little-known) early "Americana" period, from the 1930s and 1940s. At the time, Partch wrote these compositions for his homemade "Adapted Guitars": acoustic guitars converted to play microtonal scales. Rainier rebuilt these guitars himself in order to revive those compositions (of which virtually no recordings exist) on this extraordinary album - a true music-historical document.

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Cat. number: n/a
Year: 2024

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