{"product_id":"arnold-dreyblatt-star-trap-lp","title":"Arnold Dreyblatt - Star Trap LP","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStar Trap\u003c\/em\u003e presents a selection of hitherto unreleased 1990s recordings from Arnold Dreyblatt and his Orchestra of Excited Strings. Following on from Black Truffle's wide-ranging archival \u003cem\u003eSecond Selection\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), which presented a smorgasbord of unreleased material from between 1978 and 1989, \u003cem\u003eStar Trap\u003c\/em\u003e mines Dreyblatt's extensive archive of unheard recordings from the 1990s, uncovering six pieces performed by three different iterations of the Orchestra of Excited Strings. While Dreyblatt often performs in his ensembles on his signature Excited Strings Bass (a double bass strung with piano wire), here we find him in the composer's chair and behind the mixing desk, leading ensembles of modified percussion, string, and wind instruments. Four of the pieces make use of Dreyblatt's Dynamic Processing System (heard on a stunning pair of solo pieces for electric guitar featured on \u003cem\u003eSecond Selection\u003c\/em\u003e), in which the opening and closing of digital noise gates are controlled by an external signal (in this case, a recording of faulty escalator).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than the relentless thudding rhythms of 1980s works like \u003cem\u003eNodal Excitations\u003c\/em\u003e, the ensemble pieces here are closer to the propulsive, at times even funky rhythmic foundation of Dreyblatt's classic \u003cem\u003eAnimal Magnetism\u003c\/em\u003e (Tzadik, 1995), but further enlivened by the unpredictable accents of the Dynamic Processing System. On \"Escalator\", a six-piece version of the Orchestra performs the notated stuttering rhythms and shifting accents of the gated escalator recordings, without the actual Dynamic Processing System being audible. On the remaining two pieces, composed for the tenth anniversary of the Orchestra of Excited Strings in Europe, Dreyblatt made use of algorithmic software to generate material. But far from austere exercises, these pieces are perhaps the most immediate of all, as the Orchestra exuberantly tears through a sequence of repeating rhythmic and melodic cells, dazzling the ear with the overtones generated by Dreyblatt's twenty-note microtonal scale. At times recalling aspects of the work of Peter Zummo or Arthur Russell's \u003cem\u003eInstrumentals\u003c\/em\u003e, but with a massive dose of sonic heft, this is music for both the mind and the body. Includes liner notes by Arnold Dreyblatt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303548526641,"sku":"ana1793065582040","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/8660\/8177\/files\/arnold-dreyblatt---star-trap-lp_1.jpg?v=1793065592","url":"https:\/\/roofrackbar.shop\/products\/arnold-dreyblatt-star-trap-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}