Mirage, by Elizabeth Brown

Mirage

by Elizabeth Brown

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1.	Seahorse 09:14	buy track
2.	Arcana 09:34	buy track
3.	Piranesi 13:53	buy track
4.	Three Arias from A Bookmobile for Dreamers 06:56	buy track
5.	Atlantis 06:54	buy track
6.	Mirage 11:44	buy track
7.	Shinshoufuukei, or An Imagined Landscape: I. Stroll garden 04:00	buy track
8.	Shinshoufuukei, or An Imagined Landscape: II. Aged, mossy rock 02:51	buy track
9.	Shinshoufuukei, or An Imagined Landscape: III. Praise poetry-landscape haiku 04:46	buy track
10.	Shinshoufuukei, or An Imagined Landscape: IV. Departure 03:03	buy track

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The music of Elizabeth Brown (b 1953) revels in paradox, but of a subtle kind. The strangeness of the music sneaks up on you; its liquid, mellifluous quality masks a far more radical stance. Seemingly irreconcilable instrumental timbres coexist peaceably: shakuhachi with string quartet, theremin with guitar, Partch instruments with theremin.

The music is blessed with an old-fashioned gift for clear and singable melody . . . except for the fact that the tune keeps bending and melting. There is a genuine romantic sensibility, yet it exists in a soundworld that can only be avant-garde. But the avant-gardisme is in turn presented within a sensibility that is tender, sweet, and toylike.

In short, it expresses a genuine innocence, something we encounter far too rarely in an era of postmodern irony. Brown’s musical world is one of dreamlike sounds, images, textures, colors, and harmonies. One sees the literature of the past, especially the Romantic era, transformed through its colored filter. One also glimpses a musical future that is fresh and imaginative, but never afraid of beauty, nor of humane warmth.

Brown is a “gentle maverick.” Though her music bespeaks an ironclad intelligence and steely will, and evidences ties to all sorts of American experimental traditions, it still desires to give pleasure to performer and listener alike. It is eclectic, but seamlessly so. Its many sources and influences blend into an organic whole that seems to have always been there, but which she fortuitously discovered. Above all, it is personal, the work of an unpretentious, deep, and questing spirit.

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released July 30, 2013

Elizabeth Brown, flute, shakuhachi, theremin; Newband; Momenta Quartet; Pro Musica Nipponia, Yasushi Inada, conductor; Ben Verdery, amplified classical guitar played with slide bar

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