Alvin LucierFeaturing: Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley
Works For The Ever Present Orchestra (2LP)
LabelBlack TruffleGenreExperimental
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Late works by Alvin Lucier for The Ever Present Orchestra, an ensemble of electric and lap steel guitars played with e-bows, here including Stephen O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi. As in much of his late music, long sustained tones and slow sweeps rub against one another, and the beating patterns they produce become the real substance of the pieces.
Tilted Arc adds saxophones, violins, glockenspiel and piano to the guitars, Double Helix is for guitars alone, EPO-5 brings in glockenspiel, saxophone and violin, and Semicircle returns to the larger group with piano. Lucier also drew the cover and wrote the notes. Issued by Black Truffle in 2020 in a gatefold sleeve.
Release notes
Presented in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
| A | Tilted Arc | 17:49 | |
| B | Double Helix | 16:02 | |
| C | EPO-5 | 12:15 | |
| D | Semicircle | 18:38 |
- Alvin Lucier
- Artwork [Cover], Liner Notes, Composed By, Producer [Produced By]
- Lasse Marhaug
- Design
- Stephen O'Malley
- Electric Guitar (A, B, D)
- Trevor Saint
- Glockenspiel (A, C)
- Bernhard Rietbrock
- Lap Steel Guitar, Recorded By
- Jan Thoben
- Lap Steel Guitar, Recorded By, Mixed By
- Oren Ambarchi
- Lap Steel Guitar (A, B, D)
- Rashad Becker
- Mastered By
- Masayuki Shioda
- Photography
- Gregor Schwellenbach
- Piano (D)
- Tamriko Kordzaia
- Piano (A)
- Johannes Gottschick
- Recorded By
- Gabriel Dernbach
- Recorded By, Mixed By
- Charles Ng
- Saxophone (A, D)
- Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos
- Saxophone (A, C, D)
- Valentine Michaud
- Saxophone (A, D)
- Azat Fishyan
- Violin (A, D)
- Cecile Vonderwahl
- Violin (A, D)
- Christina Maria Moser
- Violin (A, D)
- Hanna Berliner
- Violin (A, D)
- Rebecca Thies
- Violin (C)
