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Richard Barrett: adrift

Read "adrift" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Richard Barrett makes music that demands more than total attention, and it's impossible not to be sucked in. On adrift, a collection of three pieces, his command of sound in all its depth and glory is utterly alluring. This makes it easier to fall prey to the seduction of the music--a magnificent collision of instrumentation on “codex IX" and “codex VII"--and on the glacially spare adrift which is equally demanding of active and energetic participation. In fact, it is entirely ...

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Creative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

Creative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

Source: Han-earl Park

Released by Creative Sources Recordings: Numbers (CS 201 CD), a duo album by composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two hander—a looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audible—a musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cuts—an intense white- knuckle extemporization unit—the duo of composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Numbers

King Records
2012

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adrift

Psi
2010

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