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Roger
Kleier
Deep Night, Deep Autumn
ST-211
American Record Guide:
"He has a knack for creating rich, beautiful textures, which really shine
because of the expert production."
New Music Box:
"Electronic sampling, guitar effects, and extended technique enhance his
music that fuses Clapton-like riffs with alternate tunings, Middle Eastern
licks, and some old-fashioned noise."
Roger Kleier, an experimental guitarist, is an important part of New York's downtown new music scene. His music has been called "Impressive stuff!" by The Wire. He regularly performs and records with established, leading-edge musicians, including Kato Hideki, Ikue Mori, Phill Niblock, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Carl Stone, and others.
Kleier seduces listeners by mutating his guitar in various ways, ranging from the hallowed techniques of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart, through the extended techniques of avant-garde guitar-mangling, to the recent technological innovations of sampling, layering, and digital sound processing.
Elliott Sharp writes that this CD has music where "drones melt into lyrical melody," where "the sweetsour wistfulness of detuned chords, existing completely outside of any European tonal sensibility, morphs into geological mass," and where "gradual processes and the sensuality of the rich timbres" draw the listener "deeper and deeper" into "full immersion."
The music on
this brooding, elegiac CD reflects strong emotional associations
of the composer.
For example, The Juan Cortina Suite was inspired by a legendary 19th century outlaw, revered for combatting
injustices against Mexicans. The tense opening work and the haunting
concluding work were inspired by an Ilya Ehrenburg World War II quote: "We
speak of deep night, and we speak of deep autumn -- when we speak
of Stalingrad, we will speak of deep war."
We Speak of Deep Night
The Juan Cortina
Suite:
I Pistol Whip
II El Valle del Rio Grande
III Brownsville Raid
Brickyard
Lodi
Chambers Street
Woodside Meteor
We Speak of Deep Autumn
Introduction: Elliott Sharp
Total Time 40:52
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