GUY KLUCEVSEK – Scenes From A Mirage – LP – RERE106

GUY KLUCEVSEK is surely one of the most acclaimed musicians in “new music” – despite the fact that he plays an instrument not normally throught of in “progressive” or “avantgarde” terms: the accordion. He knows how to use both the experimental possibilities of his instrument as well as playing with “conventional” structures, connecting these two aspects in a way that makes his music a truely unique experience – and brought him the attribute “new music’s formost accordion virtuoso”, among others. “Scenes From A Mirage”, recorded partly at the (legendary and now closed) Radio City Music Hall Studio in NYC in 1987, represents two distinct compositional streams which Klucevsek has been pursuing: large-scale works for multiple accordions (“The Flying Pipe Organ”) which focus on mass, timbre, density and acoustical phenomena; and shorter accordion solos written in song, dance and theme-and-variation forms (“Dining In The Rough In The Buff”,”Awekening”, …). The composition “Scenes From A Mirage” seems to Klucevsek a meeting of the two styles, which made it a natural choice for the title track.

No Man’s Land