Margaret Lancaster performs lantern
Marilyn Nonken performs La touche sonore sous l’eau
Richard Carrick: lantern
New Focus Recordings - Released October 2020
Available on iTunes, Amazon, New Focus Recordings, Spotify
1. La touche sonore sous l’eau
2. Phosphère
3. Natural Duo
4. une
5. lanterne
6. Sarang Ga
7. La Scène Miniature
8. Danga
9. Seongeum
10. sandstone(s)
Space:Time - String Quartet #2
11. I. Claustrophobia
12. II. Gravity
13. III. Space Travel
14. IV. Coda - “into the light”
Program Note:
Stone Guitars recording has been used for Dance performances by Catherine Tharin and her Dancers in NYC and Joy Davies and Boston Conservatory Dancers.
Stone Guitars is both the title of Richard’s CD released on New Focus Recordings (FCR149, July 2014) as well as a composition for electric guitar and CD playback.
Stone Guitars can be performed live as a 55 min. set of 11 pieces, or any subset. The pieces span from fully notated works, to improvised works and works with CD playback. They can be performed with solo electric guitar and playback, or by four performers.
About the CD
Composer Richard Carrick releases a timely compendium of music for compact spaces which serves as an evocative and varied reminder of the way one can create sonic resonance with even the most sparing instrumentation. Featuring a distinguished group of performers, including Marilyn Nonken, String Noise, Margaret Lancaster, Vasko Dukovski, Either/Or, John Popham, Lauren Cauley, New York New Music Ensemble, Musicians of the Gugak Contemporary Orchestra of Seoul, Eduardo Leandro, Mivos Quartet, and Carrick himself.
lantern CD review
American Richard Carrick’s phenomenal artistic abilities, including composer, pianist, artistic director and educator, are showcased in his sparsely orchestrated compositions.
Title track laterne, for solo bass flute, performed by Margaret Lancaster, is an exciting listen, with breath and voice vocalizations, booming sounds, repeated rhythms and held notes driving the intense climax and the final faster fade with closing yelp. Carrick joins her on piano in une, a short and sweet roughly one-minute musical delight! Carrick performs with bass clarinettist Vasko Dukovski in the Korean vocal-music-influenced Sarang Ga. A quiet start leads to abrupt low piano chords and wide-ranging bass clarinet accents, melodies with dramatic squeaks, and a very modern tonality “echo” ending. Three works draw on the traditional Korean Gugak music. Highlight is the unique ensemble colours that surface in sandstone(s), as Western (New York New Music Ensemble) and Korean traditional instruments (Musicians of the Gugak Contemporary Orchestra) perform together.
The four-movement Space:Time – String Quartet # 2, performed by the Mivos Quartet, is musical space travel. Movement I, Claustrophobia, recreates spaceship solitude, with high-pitched, almost painful tight dissonances, accents at the end of ascending lines and tension-breaking brief use of lower lines. Low pulling down grounding tones and floating high counterpoint drive the storytelling in movement II, Gravity.
Four additional works and other great performers complete this Carrick collection of beautiful intimate sounds to appreciate even in pandemic isolation!
— Tiina Kiik, 2.06.2021
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