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Conflict: Special Dissonance and Its Unlikely Applications (v.2)

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Special Dissonance Theory
18.2 MB


5.0 MB

Contrallegiance
11.5 MB


3.2 MB

Break Bad
24.1 MB


6.9 MB

Arrangement No. 4 for Horns and Churchgoers
11.0 MB


2.9 MB

Good Charles
15.3 MB


4.8 MB

Conflict
12.8 MB


3.9 MB

This is tough music — tough to listen to … It is clearly an experiment. At first I thought it was an experiment gone awry … or were all the players drunk? Then I started to really listen — to the horns, organs, percussions — a kaleidoscope of distressed sounds. And distress is the theme: “Contrallegiance,” “Break Bad,” “Conflict,” all, well, about ***CONFLICT*** of some type or another. A horn is the star that recurs in “Special Dissonance Theory” and “Good Charles”: the horn is telling a story, wailing through the cacaphony, desperate to make a point, be heard. This album is ordered chaos… Five stars for originality. —Kim Sacco Sargent