Kinship / Maya Beiser

Kinship / Maya Beiser - Koch International - KCH 7464 - 099923746423

Label: Koch International
Catalog No: KCH 7464
Format: CD
Release Date: 2000-05-23
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 5 min.
UPC Code: 099923746423

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Notes & Reviews:

Personnel: Maya Beiser (vocals, cello); Simon Shaheen (oud); Glen Velez (vocals, frame drum).

Recording information: Master Sound Astoria Studios, Astoria, NY (10/1999).

Maya Beiser has performed and premiering modern works for the cello across four continents since the early 1990s. Composers as diverse as Steve Reich, John Zorn and Tan Dun have written works especially for her, and she has been a consistent member of Bang On A Can All-Stars ensemble. Beiser has tremendous technique--she is at ease with Haydn as with Meredith Monk--and a soulful, passionate approach that never allows even the most "austere-sounding" work lapse into sterility.

Here, she presents an eclectic yet unified program of pieces written by composers touched by ethnic/traditional folk music, many of whom are performers themselves. "Khse Buon," by Cambodian-American Chinary Ung, is a heartbreaking threnody drawing upon Cambodian folk motifs, modality, sustained drones and microtonality, evoking the deep spirituality of John Tavener and Arvo Pärt without ever sounding like either. Palestine-born Simon Shaheen (a frequent collaborator of Bill Laswell) contributes the exhilarating "Samai Nahawand," which (without resorting to mere pastiche) shows the common ground shared (rhythmically and melodically) by European and Arabic classical music, Indian raga and Gypsy/Rom folk melodies.

This album is virtually solo cello (unaccompanied as well as multi-tracked), with accompaniment on two tracks by Simon Shaheen (oud) and Glen Velez (frame drum). This "minimal" approach--along with the emotive yet subtle performance of Beiser, of course--gives the superb KINSHIP its axis, the focal point that shapes a cohesive listening experience.

REVIEWS:

Newsday (5/28/00, p.24) - "...KINSHIP is remarkably free of cuddly sentiments or anodynes about global healing...Beiser plays these disparate pieces with an unmistakably urban blend of lyricism and aggressiveness..."



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Works Details

>Shaheen, Simon : Samai Nahawand, for cello, oud & frame drum
  • Performers: Maya Beiser (Cello); Simon Shaheen (Oud); Glen Velez (Frame Drum)
  • Running Time: 6 min. sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary

>Naná Vasconcelos (1944 - ) : Trayra Boia, for cello & vocals
  • Performer: Maya Beiser (Cello)
  • Notes: Arranged: Evan Ziporyn
  • Running Time: 8 min. 49 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary

>Ziporyn, Evan : Kebyar Maya, for cello
  • Performer: Maya Beiser (Cello)
  • Running Time: 13 min. 33 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary

>Ung, Chinary : Khse Buon, for cello
  • Performer: Maya Beiser (Cello)
  • Running Time: 16 min. 32 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 1980

>Anonymous : Ghmerto, Tsmindao
  • Performer: Maya Beiser (Cello)
  • Running Time: 6 min. 49 sec.

>Velez, Glen : Kinship, for cello, frame drum & vocals
  • Performers: Maya Beiser (Cello); Glen Velez (Percussion); Glen Velez (Frame Drum)
  • Running Time: 8 min. 11 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary

>Shaheen, Simon : Desert Mist, for cello
  • Performer: Maya Beiser (Cello)
  • Running Time: 5 min. 30 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary