Around the World in a Daze

Product Description Phil Kline's "Around the World in a Daze" is a 65-minute surround-sound studio composition commissioned by Starkland to premiere on this DVD. Daze opens with the multi-channel ambiance near Kline's home in New York City's lower East Side, glides into an ethereal Ethel string quartet, peaks with a tidal wave of hundreds of thousands of bells, shifts to the soaring violinistics of Todd Reynolds, and concludes with an immersive environment of 15,000 chattering, African gray parrots. Along the way, listeners are also seduced by swirling, hypersampled Wagner, a weird madrigal about bitterness and bees, a Bach prelude eerily processed into a Zurich train station, and a mournfully multi-tracked "wailing wall." Offered in a custom-designed digipak, this double-DVD release adds an Extras DVD with a composer-produced music video, a 34-minute interview of the composer with John Schaefer, as well as a 24-page booklet. The main DVD offers Daze in several formats for various playback setups: standard-DVD Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; higher quality DTS 5.1; highest-quality uncompressed DVD-Audio; and PCM stereo. Playback of the Daze music is accompanied by over 80 images shot by Kline. This DVD emerges as a followup to Starkland's Immersion DVD-Audio, once a #1 Best-Seller at Tienda and now recognized as a groundbreaking recording that let listeners experience new music in high-resolution surround sound for the first time. about the composerFrom vast boombox symphonies to chamber music and songs cycles, Phil Kline's work has been hailed for its originality and beauty. "Kline has graduated from 'experimental' to 'original' - he's one of America's most important compositional voices" (Philadelphia Inquirer). His compositions have been performed in rock clubs, art galleries, and major concert halls throughout the world. The New York Times wrote, "Magic was happening as you sat there. Here was a real original." Kline's Zippo Songs was one of the most widely hailed new music CDs of 2004. The CD was named "Best of the Year" by The New York Times, Newsday, and Gramophone. A figure in the downtown New York rock scene in the 1980s, Kline founded the band the Del-Byzanteens with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and painter James Nares, collaborated with photographer Nan Goldin on the soundtrack to her Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and toured the world as a veteran of Glenn Branca's legendary guitar ensemble. Review "A set of sensational études… An hour-long suite meant to be heard in Surround Sound but beguiling in old-fashioned stereo, too." -- Justin Davidson, New York Magazine "A special-project disk in which Kline created, out of extravagant electronic means, an audio-visual feast that balances hipster zen with the seriousness of Bach and Wagner. " -- Russell Platt, The New Yorker "This adventurous music…ranges widely from ambient recordings that are surprisingly musical, to complex constructions that emerge as lyrical… The accompanying DVD offers… a fascinating interview with Kline." -- Kalman Rubinson, Stereophile "Mr. Kline, the electronic experimenter who deploys fleets of boomboxes to achieve his preferred textures, is hard at work." -- Allan Kozinn, New York Times "It fascinates, engages, and, often, moves… Kline's pieces transport the hearer from their listening space to imaginary vistas that envelope, even overwhelm." -- Christian Carey, Sequenza21 "Very noteworthy… an electro-acoustic DVD extravaganza." -- Anne Midgette, Washington Post "Congratulations to Starkland for releasing this extraordinary and well-documented release." -- Dolf Mulder, Vital Weekly "The Starkland label has a treat for you… There's plenty to enjoy in this piece for your standard audio consumer, but for the audiophiles in the crowd, the real fun is in sitting immersed in this mash up of street noise, music clips, music boxes, bug zappers, and many other bits of sonic detritus." -- Molly Sheridan, New Music Box "PICK OF THE WEEK." -- WNYC -------

Detalles del producto Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.5 x 10 x 0.25 pulgadas; 5.44 Onzas Fabricante : Starkland Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2009 Producto en Tienda desde : Febrero 27, 2009 Etiqueta : Starkland ASIN : B001U5HZSE Número de discos : 2 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº650,397 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº32,198 en Música de Cámara (CDs y Vinilo) nº38,147 en Pop Vocal (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 3.1 de 5 estrellas 7 calificaciones Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.5 x 10 x 0.25 pulgadas; 5.44 Onzas Fabricante : Starkland Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2009 Producto en Tienda desde : Febrero 27, 2009 Etiqueta : Starkland ASIN : B001U5HZSE Número de discos : 2