BANDCAMP DAILY: Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: February 2019
BANDCAMP DAILY: Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: February 2019
BY PETER MARGASAK
“His writing deftly reflects the visually dazzling phenomenon when large flocks of the birds take to the sky, the shift in direction by just one starling radically resulting in the entire mass changing its motion. The piece is performed by clarinetist Christa Van Alstine, whose fluid lines trace warm, fluttering melodies over Mantra Percussion’s rapidly pulsing blanket of sound—a sonic blend driven more by tuned instruments like organ, mallet percussion, and piano than the rhythms articulated with a drum kit. The layers of those components nicely mirrors that way stacks of starlings produce such a beguiling optical effect.”