Endangered Species, by Alvin Curran

Endangered Species

by Alvin Curran

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1.	Out of Nowhere 03:48	buy track
2.	(I'm) Confessin' (that I Love You) 04:06	buy track
3.	Ain't Misbehavin' 16:54	buy track
4.	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Take 3) 10:28	buy track
5.	Come Rain or Come Shine 14:05	buy track
6.	I Got It Bad (and that Ain't Good) 08:26	buy track
7.	Speak Low 06:21	buy track
8.	Arrivederci Roma 06:14	buy track
9.	Tea for Two 05:46	buy track
10.	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Take 2) 06:43	buy track
11.	As Time Goes By 13:32	buy track
12.	Georgia on My Mind 07:35	buy track
13.	St. James Infirmary Blues 07:34	buy track
14.	As Time Goes By (Final) 07:34	buy track
15.	A Foggy Day (In London Town) 07:04	buy track
16.	Memories of You 03:54	buy track
17.	Just a Gigolo 08:13	buy track
18.	Red River Valley 07:49	buy track

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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

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released November 30, 2018

Alvin Curran, Yamaha Disklavier

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