TEXTURA: 2020 TOP 10s & 20s
TEXTURA: 2020 TOP 10s & 20s
TOP 10 SINGLES / EPs / CASSETTES
“01. Roomful of Teeth: The Ascendant / Just Constellations (New Amsterdam Records)
The simultaneous release of not one but two EPs by the acclaimed vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth is cause for celebration. Augmenting the singing on Wally Gunn's The Ascendant is drumming by Jason Treuting, which naturally gives the work additional heft. In his six-part song cycle, Gunn explores the momentum generated by voices moving in counterpoint by threading hockets, canons, rounds, and the like into the design. Michael Harrison's Just Constellations is different from Gunn's in many ways, aside from its fundamental austerity and ethereality. Words are eschewed for syllables, and the material, written in just intonation for eight individual voices, is emblematic of Harrison's music.”