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Iancu Dumitrescu

Medium II / Cogito (LP)

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Rare 1987 album on Edition RZ with the Rumanian composer's powerful hyper-spectral music, a composition for double-bass performed by Fernando Grillo from 1979 and one for two double basses, prepared piano, Javanese gong, crystals & metal objects performed by Grillo and the composer himself among others. With insert.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert included.

Iancu Dumitrescu built his music in Bucharest from the inside of the sound, prolonging single noisy or harmonic events until they open up. Medium II (1978 and 1979) is for solo double bass, played by Fernando Grillo with bow pressure and harmonics that turn the instrument into a grinding, breathing body.

Cogito (Trompe-l'œil), from 1981, adds a second bass (Ion Ghita), prepared piano played by the composer, Javanese gong, crystals and metal objects. Both recordings had been issued in 1982, and this 1987 LP, mastered direct to metal, opened the Edition RZ catalogue. With a German and English insert.

Details
File under: Contemporary
Cat. number: RZ 1001
Year: 1987

Release notes

"Medium II" composed 1978-1979 for double-bass solo (Hyperion Publishing House, Bucharest) "Cogito (Trompe-L'œil)" composed 1981 for two double basses, prepared piano, Javanese gong, crystals & metal objects (Éditions Salabert, Paris) Überspielung: TELDEC, Berlin Druck: J. Alt, Niederdorfelden Made in Germany 1987 Includes insert in German & English. Previously released on [r=1411472] in 1982.

Tracklist
AMedium II23:36
BCogito (Trompe-L'œil)19:55
Credits
Iancu Dumitrescu
Composed By, Directed By [Klangregie]
Bernard Stein
Design
Nicolaus Ott
Design
Fernando Grillo
Double Bass