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Neil Rolnick: Ex Machina

Read "Ex Machina" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Alla soglia dei settant'anni (li compirà il prossimo 22 ottobre), il compositore texano Neil Rolnick dà alle stampe questo importante lavoro, che dispone lungo oltre cento minuti cinque sue ampie pagine (dai nove minuti alla mezz'ora) partorite fra il 2013 e il 2015. In tutte tranne una, dove c'è comunque chi lo rimpiazza nel ruolo, Rolnick si affianca a intermittenza al solista di turno, dando di piglio al proprio personal computer, in un paio di casi (peraltro decisamente più brevi ...

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Neil Rolnick Covers Much Contemporary Ground in His "Extended Family" Program

Neil Rolnick Covers Much Contemporary Ground in His "Extended Family" Program

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards

Neil Rolnick composes music that goes somewhere. Then the next piece goes somewhere else. He is not one to be pinned down to a single style. He uses whatever expressive stylistic means he sees fit for any given piece. And so it is with Extended Family (Innova 782). Three divergent works come to light herewith. “Extended Family" (2009) is a lovely, sort of neo-classical sounding string quartet, played very convincingly by the quartet ETHEL. The CD liners tell us that ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Ex Machina

Innova Recordings
2017

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