Laurence Crane & Asamisimasa: Sound Of Horse

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The ensemble have opted to perform the open-scored Old Life Was Rubbish (1998) on electric guitar, bass clarinet and piano; but such is the synergy between composer and musicians that each piece... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Release Date: 23rd Dec 2016
Catalogue No: HUBROCD2582
Label: Hubro
Length: 54 minutes

Crane: John White in Berlin

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Old Life was Rubbish

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Riis

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Events, Pt. 1

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Crane: Events, Pt. 2

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Crane: Events, Pt. 3

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Sound of Horse, Pt. 1

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Sound of Horse, Pt. 2

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Sound of Horse, Pt. 3

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Sound of Horse, Pt. 4

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Sound of Horse, Pt. 5

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Sound of Horse, Pt. 6

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Laurence Crane

Crane: Sound of Horse, Pt. 7

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Laurence Crane

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The music of the English composer Laurence Crane as performed by the Norwegian group Asamisimasa. Available as CD with 16 page booklet, 2LP with printed inner sleeves and bonus track.

On the face of it, his carefully hand-written scores move notes across a page, using minimal resources to create elegant formal shapes whose simple repetitions or drones gather cumulative weight as they go. But in, these sounds evoke a vivid imaginative world, from the humdrum - the chime of a clock, a siren's wail, the whirr of an air-conditioning system - to the sublime. Unlike most composers, Crane deals with beauty quite unapologetically, and this is a very beautiful album.

Crane (born in Oxford, 1961) operates in an international context but it's possible to read his music as in some ways emblematically English, however fanciful such determinism may be. One thinks of Brian Eno, say, as much as Morton Feldman; of the painters Constable and Turner, even. It is also hard not to see an element of wilful English eccentrism in Crane's choice of texts for the three movements of 'Events': lists of famous people's birthdays, selected foreign exchange rates, and a record of UK weather, all taken from one day's edition of The Guardian.

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February 2017

The ensemble have opted to perform the open-scored Old Life Was Rubbish (1998) on electric guitar, bass clarinet and piano; but such is the synergy between composer and musicians that each piece sounds tailor-made for the ensemble

17th November 2016

Laurence Crane builds graceful, cheeky, elusive music out of ordinary things...There are allusions all over the place, but Crane’s trick is to make them fleeting and decontextualised so that everything sounds new and not new.

Laurence Crane & Asamisimasa: Sound Of Horse

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