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Eliane Radigue – Naldjorlak

Eliane Radigue
Naldjorlak
Shiiin CD – 2008

Recorded at Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bon Secours in Paris on the 18th of September 2006.

Created in close collaboration with Charles Curtis, Naldjorlak is the first entirely acoustic composition by a composer who has pioneered pure electronic sound for over thirty years. Delicate in its dynamic range, the work explores highly diffuse bowed textures that defy perceptual focus; the hidden, untamed ur-sonority of the cello is revealed as a deeply unstable and complex source. The Tibetan title refers to the motion of all life toward unity; in a seamlessly interwoven three-part structure, the audible shape mirrors the geography of the cello.

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  1. bwr on March 6th, 2009

    thank you so much! have been searching fruitlessly for this…

  2. Andrew on March 6th, 2009

    Fantastic – I was really hoping someone would post this….

  3. stephen on March 13th, 2009

    Their distribution may not be too hot but this is still very much in print, fruitless searches?

    http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/labels/shiiin.html

  4. Andrew on March 15th, 2009

    For $28 !?!??!?!

  5. bwr on March 16th, 2009

    re: a’s point: that is what i am saying

  6. Keith on March 16th, 2009

    i’m glad you guys uploaded this !!! the piece definitely needs to be heard outside of the (small) group of people that can justify purchasing stéphane’s expensive cd edition …

    if charles is performing this anywhere near where you live, i can’t recommend hearing it live enough ; it’s uncanny how much of eliane’s aesthetic comes through despite being an acoustic work !!!

  7. Evan Lindorff-Ellery on March 21st, 2009

    At first I thought that most of these releases posted here were long out of print or really old. But with this and a few others, evidently that is not the case. I am curious how this is considered acceptable when it’s in fact a label who is doing the posting. I certainly would not download a Root Strata release from an MP3 blog, especially if it is still in print or available used. Are we really trying to support this type of intangible music distribution and listening here ?

    I am confused.

  8. Evan Lindorff-Ellery on March 21st, 2009

    That said, I suppose reigniting the MP3 debate is a bit boring. I do find this blog very useful and a wonderful for new music and art discovery. I appreciate all of this, and more, but am left wondering on other levels.

  9. Duane Spani on February 7th, 2013

    I can’t believe people are complaining about the price of the legitimate recording of this fine piece. Are they actually thinking the label is bringing in loads of cash on this and being greedy? Perhaps they should lower the price to $12, resting assured they can make up the difference in volume? Could they possibly even manage to sell 1,000 units of this fine recording? I very much doubt it.

    More likely is that these same people are merely attempting to justify their failure to support the music they (supposedly) appreciate. It’s NOT that this piece “definitely needs to be heard outside of the (small) group of people that can justify purchasing stéphane’s expensive CD edition” at all. In fact, I can think of no way to make that quote more wrongheaded and incorrect than it is.

    This type of music (and ALL types of so-called ‘fringe’ music) will always and forever have small, even tiny, audiences– until decades have passed, anyway. The RESPONSIBILITY we have as an audience is to do what we can to support the music– which might even involve enormous personal sacrifice– like perhaps this month choosing a pound of the First Grade Yunnan Gold Tip Tea over the Imperial Yunnan Gold Tip.

    That sacrifice alone would both buy you a copy of the CD AND a copy to give away to one lucky member of the mass of people unable to justify the enormous cost of the CD.

    Duane Spani

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