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Bitter Music, Music Of Harry Partch, Vol. 1

Harry Partch / John Schneider/ Garry Eister / Richard Valitutto / Paul West

Bitter Music, Music Of Harry Partch, Vol. 1

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404934926
Catnr: BRIDG 9349
Release date: 15 March 2012
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Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404934926
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9349
Release date
15 March 2012
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About the album

It is an astonishing gift of fate when a creative artist, known to the world for a particular achievement, is suddenly shown in a quite different light thanks to the existence of a single document that has somehow escaped the ruthless culling mechanisms of time. Harry Partch's Bitter Music is such a document, a “diary of eight months spent in transient shelters and camps, hobo jungles, basement rooms, and on the open road”. This long-lost journal of Harry Partch's wanderings during the Great Depression (from cleaning sewers to having tea with Irish poet W. B. Yeats) is an extraordinary musical portrait of an American pioneer, chronicling his occasionally hilarious and often heartbreaking struggles to forge a new music system outside the classical tradition. This premiere recording of Bitter Music takes the form of readings and collected musical fragments- an aural diary of what was going through Partch’s mind and ear during a critical period in his artistic development.

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