Meridian's 8th album for Channel Classics features incredible music by David Sanford, Nick Didkovsky and Elliott Sharp. This CD is packed with the things that Meridian does best: complicated, virtuosic, high-energy, bizarre versions of music that is more informed by the vernacular than the conservatory. 'On this disc, we present three commissioned pieces, each of which we hope will become a major contribution to the literature. For a long time, we have wanted to design concert programs with just a few large scale works, each of which developed it's ideas fully. Now the repertoire is growing, and we are on the brink of something new. All three of these pieces draw on various styles of music available to today's listener, from free improvisation in a densely notated art-rock setting to evocations of African vocal polyphony, from oblique references to 1970's television themes to the rhythms and intonations of a sermonizing preacher. Yet each piece creates it's own unique style and language. We recorded this CD in the Doopsgezinde Kerk in the town square of Deventer, Holland, in a large pedestrian plaza referred to locally as Brink.'

Tracklist:

Corpus, for chamber ensemble: Antiphon
Corpus, for chamber ensemble: Introit
Corpus, for chamber ensemble: Shot
Corpus, for chamber ensemble: Kreuz / M„nner
Corpus, for chamber ensemble: De Profundis
Corpus, for chamber ensemble: Sermon
Beyond the Curve, for chamber ensemble
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Steamier Sinner Bl
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: An Idle Saint Reme
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Terrible As Mean D
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Meanie Master Blin
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Beastlier Madmen R
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Mere Brains Is Lam
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Miserable Sinner M
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Denser Mealtime Br
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Last Inane Dismemb
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Remedial, Eminent
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Manliest Base Remi
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Able, Saner Determ
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: A Mean, Dim Terrib
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Steamier Limb Ensn
Slim in Eaten Dreamers, for chamber ensemble: Merriest, Blamed,

UPC: 723385232063
Label: Channel Classics
Release Date: 8.8.06
Format: CD

Meridian Arts Ensemble - Brink (CD)