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Peter GarlandPeter Garland: Matachin Dances performed at New Music America 1981 (June 9, 1981)

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Peter Garland on New Music America in 1981, San Francisco California.

This recording is available from Cold Blue Records, www.coldbluemusic.com.


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Artist/Composer: Peter Garland
Date: 1981-06-09 00:00:00
Source: Other Minds
Label / Recorded by: KPFA
Keywords: Avantgarde

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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Reviewer: philomel - - January 18, 2006
Subject: A glimpse at perfection
Peter Garland's music is much neglected, unjustly swept under the rug by critics who don't understand much Peter Garland himself. This piece, "Matachin Dances" is by no means a folk piece, but it derives its simplicity, spareness and austerity from the unpretentious qualities of the different folk musics he has studied.

This is a piece that does evoke in some ways the Southwest, but in a very non-subjective way. You won't find the pretense of both popular ideas of what the music of the Southwest should sound like, but you will find in its place a beautiful, tonal work that evokes the soundworld that Garland envisions the Southwest as being.

Even though this piece cuts out (I figured the tape ran out), it's still worth listening to.

I would recommend Garland's "Border Music" on the oodiscs label (#52)