Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996 - 2009) | David First

Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996 - 2009)

by David First

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1.	Zen Guilt/Zen Blame 35:46	info
2.	A Bet On Transcendence Favors The House 16:15	info
3.	My Veil Evades Detection; My Veil Defies Exhaustion; My Veil And I Divorce 21:43	info
4.	Tell Tale 2.1 01:06	info
5.	The Softening Door 14:58	info
6.	Aw! / Drawline Spout / Holi Spank 31:32	info
7.	Belt 11:08
8.	Happy Beatday 02:11	info
9.	Pipeline Witness Apologies To Dennis 41:03	info

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Long overdue overview of composer David First's drone works. This special and specially priced set (3 CDs for the price of 2) is comprised of nine works composed between 1996 and 2009.

"1996 was the beginning of a new period for me", says First. "I had spent the prior five or six years creating a lot of music for other players and larger ensembles - culminating in 1995 with a couple of mountings of my opera, The Manhattan Book of the Dead. I was a little burned out on this and decided to return to a more personal, intimate format - one that ended up including an even more extensive exploration of tunings, alternative compositional softwares and how my playing techniques interacted with these things. I think I just wanted to go deeper and have more control over the results. During the ensuing years I've had a few pendulum swings - forays into beat-oriented pop music with lyrics & vocals and, of course, the re-animation of my rock band from the late 70s - the Notekillers. But I've continued, through all of the changes, to maintain my grounding in my love of the drone & associated acoustical phenomena - a love affair that began in my teenage psychedelic years and will, no doubt, be a most significant aspect of my music path for as long as I am at it. The tracks here represent almost every major work created from 1996 to the present and I'm grateful that they will be heard by a wider swath of people than those who lived in NYC or happened to be at one of my touring performances during these years."

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released November 15, 2010

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