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Alvin Curran

Shofar Rags

Label: Tzadik

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Active since the mid-’60s, Alvin Curran is one of America’s most courageous and outrageous musical mavericks. A true forefather to the Downtown scene, his music embraces the dialectics of composition/improvisation, tonality/atonality, minimalism/maximalism, electronic/acoustic and more. Alvin’s use of the Shofar in experimental music making goes as far back as 1988, and this long awaited release features several compositions for Shofar and electronics, ranging from meditative ambient environments to flamboyant, fast moving collage.

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Cat. number: TZ 8176
Year: 2013
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Recorded at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy.
Tracks 1, 2 recorded July 2012 at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy.
Track 3 Tam Tam solo recorded April 2012, Mills College, CA
Track 4 recorded June 2012 at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy.
Tracks 5, 7 recorded 2008 for the Alef-Bet Sound Project (Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco) at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy.
Track 6 recorded at Studio Luca Spagnoletti, Rome, Italy with a remixed fragment of a 1990 WDR Cologne concert.