SIEGEL, AARON - THE CABINET (CD)
"rest assured, discerning listener. on the cabinet, aaron siegel's debut record of solo percussion, the composer, sound artist, and sometime side-man to anthony braxton deftly sidesteps the self-indulgence to which the genre is all too often prone, opting to showcase not only his formidable technical chops but his equally impressive sense of restraint, good taste, and rigorous regard for formal structure. the formula is deceptively simple: the cabinet consists of twenty-one tracks of solo percussion, each clocking in at precisely two minutes. from these simple, elegant building blocks, siegel constructs a dense mosaic of textures, intensities, and timbres that proceeds with inexorable logic. edition of 500." (label info)
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