Label: New World Records - 80804-2

即興集団Musica Elettronica Vivaの活動で知られ、個人でも秀逸なピアノ作品やフィールドレコーディングものも発表してきた60年代より活動する重鎮コンポーザーのAlvin Curran。氏が長年存在を待ち望んでいた楽器であるヤマハの自動演奏機能付きピアノ"ディスクラビア"を使った滅茶苦茶アヴァンな2CD演奏集[Endangered Species]。クラシック、ジャズ曲を自身で演奏、そこへ事前にレコーディングされた笑い声やらフィールドレコーディング、電子ノイズが容赦無くシンクロし並走するという、とてつもなく異端でブッとんだ音場を作り続けます。この内容で2枚組という編成も非常に素晴らしい。大推薦。

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Endangered Species states, restates, correlates, instigates, inflates and deflates, elevates, formulates, disintegrates, interrogates, percolates, granulates, germinates, Kiss Me Kates, Tom Waits, Norman Bates and W.B. Yeats, horripilates, adumbrates, prestidigitates, sophisticates, enumerates, integrates and contraindicates songs from the standard repertoire, Standards they were called. Old French, Frankish, estendard "place of formation." If you asked a jazz musician what he played, he'd probably say Standards and Originals. Standards being popular songs from Broadway or Hollywood, Originals being compositions written by the jazz players themselves. They became the catalysts for infinite extended play. . . . Alvin's standards rise from an uncodified potential of all the sounds in the world. Recognizable but reformed by what had been worked through the nameless sound fields into a strange new life, now audible here. - Clark Coolidge (from the liner notes)

… The Yamaha Disklavier was the instrument I was waiting for . . . a grand piano which allowed me the luxury of playing not just its own hammers and strings but my entire archive of sound-files: a magic act where the whole world becomes audible directly from my finger tips - an 80-proof blend of analogue and digital. The selection of songs on this recording is mostly ballads, slow and easy, leaving me time to think, exit into unverified neighborhoods, begin a piece from the end, enter a spontaneous museum of dysfunctional harmonies, sneak out the back door into the cocktail mists looking for traces of MEV street music in a heap of Pistoletto's rags. - Alvin Curran