Wendy Mae Chambers: 12 Squared, by Various Artists

Wendy Mae Chambers: 12 Squared

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1.	Snake Dancer 03:19	buy track
2.	Dance 05:05	buy track
3.	Snake of Deep Waters 04:02	buy track
4.	Hoodoo Root Doctor 04:52	buy track
5.	Wild Ride 04:09	buy track
6.	The Barons 03:43	buy track
7.	Shango 04:10	buy track
8.	Manman Brigitte 04:42	buy track
9.	The Sun 03:14	buy track
10.	A Priest 05:01	buy track
11.	Fire-Breathing Serpent 04:56	buy track

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Wendy Mae Chambers (b 1953) is known for the scope and originality of her works, typified by large and unusual instrumental combinations. In Chambers’s own words, Twelve² is a voodoo tone poem in eleven movements for twelve percussionists. Each movement is about 4 minutes in length. The last movement is 4'33" of lots of sound (in tribute to Cage's 4'33" of silence). Voodoo drumming [calls] forth Cage’s spirit and the bells, chimes, and gongs [celebrate] ... celestial qualities.

The work is a ritual to a great man ... [structured] by means of a New Orleans Voodoo Tarot Card “Tree of Life” reading. Each of the eleven cards (picked by chance) determines the character of a movement. Twelve²'s instrumentation includes theremin, Chinese cymbals and gongs, five-tone marimbula, and bowed suspended cymbals. Over the eleven movements, Twelve² traverses a myriad of moods－incantatory, shamanistic, mysterious, dream-like, orgiastic, whimsical, ethereal－all served up on a rich tonal and timbral palette, from thunderous percussive interludes to the delicate shimmers of Oriental chimes.

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released January 1, 1998

Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker, Charles Kiger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair, Dan McMillan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto, Dominic Donato, percussion, Howard Van Hyning, conductor

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