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The Ear Candy 3: The Chemical Brothers, John Adams, Conspirare
I give up. No more extended CD reviews for Out & About. Just doesn’t work. So I’m taking a page from Matt Dentler’s inspired blog. He publishes a frequent feature: “Five New Albums Worth Your Dime.” Well, CDs, even at Cheapo, cost more than a dime. So I’m going with “The Ear Candy 3.” Yeh, it’s close to the name of a Seattle critic’s blog, a magazine and musical equipment company. But not everything can be original. And titles are exempt from copyrights and trademarks.
Conspirare/Tarik O’Regan: “Threshold of Night.” Can we come up for a new word for “haunting”? O’Regan’s compositions escape like scents from a warm room. Craig Hella Johnson’s Austin-based choir floats along with each suggestive, mostly melancholy atmospheric.
John Adams: “A Flowering Tree.” This opera in two acts, based on a South Indian tale, returns the masterful California composer to his most dramatic and decorative, at the same time. Recalls as much Zemlimsky and Mahler as much as his minimalist roots or his Asian influences.
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