“If you surrender to it, it gets about as close to accomplishing Hennix’s goals as any recording ever could: time seems to slow and crab-walk sideways as the piece expands and contracts.”
It would be completely fair to say that Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix is among the more unjustly overlooked of the early minimalist composers. For once, though, it’s not all our fault: though she began recording and performing in the late 1960s, all but one piece from that era sat on the shelf until less than a decade ago. How could we have known? Luckily, Important Records had an inkling about it, and have thus begun to take it upon themselves to start righting the wrongs of history. With Central Palace Music and Live At Issue Project Room, a clearer picture of Hennix’s work begins to emerge, and she takes her rightful place at the table somewhere between Riley, Conrad, and Niblock (La Monte Young sits at the head, mostly by force of personality).
Originally published by The Quietus.Read it on The Quietus
