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About Gravikords Whirlies & Pyrophones
Review A pixillated and fascinating piece of work that's at once a sonic surprise and a visual feast. -- Billboard, 1998 A rollicking pool party of a book and CD package! ... entertainment at its finest -- adventurous, warm, honest and throught-provoking. -- Pulse! 1998 Superbly done ... a head-stretcher for the eyes and ears ... -- Stereophile Magaine, 1998 Product Description Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones is a book-and-CD package devoted to new and unheard-of musical instruments. The book, written by Bart Hopkin with an introduction by Tom Waits, is full of irresistible photographs and informative text; the CD is full of great music; every page and every track overflow with ideas and originality. Nineteen of the worlds most interesting and inventive musical instrument makers appear. For more on just what's included here, see the "artist bios" section and the track listing below. [NOTE: this is the abridged re-release of the earlier boxed set of the same title.This abridged version includes everything form the original CD plus one more track. The book, however, is in a smaller format, and while the book in the original version contained sections on all the artists on the CD plus many more, the book in this newer! release covers the artists from the CD only.) About the Artist A few examples of who and what's included in this book and CD: The opening track on the CD is Hans Reichels Daxophone a more developed and elegantly crafted version of the ruler held firmly overhanging the edge of the desk, played, in this case, with a bow. Hans gets an incredible circus of sounds from this arrangement with irresistible musical results. Later on the CD, the late Jamaican mento musician Sugarbelly Walker plays his bamboo saxophone with facility, style, passion and joy. Susan Rawcliffe produces strange, frightening and hauntingly beautiful sounds on oddly shaped and acoustically complex ceramic wind instruments inspired by pre-Columbian flutes and whistles. Music and instruments from the great mid-century iconoclast Harry Partch are included, as well as the earlier Theremin, played by the leading virtuoso of its day, Clara Rockmore.
