"For Kitty Brazelton and other composers of her generation and
beyond, there is no longer an uptown or a downtown, no
hermetically-sealed classical music and must-be-shied-away from pop music; and there’s no longer a clear dividing line
between the irrefutable will of a composer, and the dutiful
obeisance of a performer. Brazelton, like many of these new
composers, is a composer-performer, and equally at home
writing a string quartet or playing in a punk rock band."
— Frank J. Oteri
Album purchase comes with a 5-page PDF containing full liner notes (from which the above quote is excerpted) and a list of personnel with short biographies.
Produced by Kitty Brazelton
Mastered by Hugo Dwyer
MUSICIANS:
Tracks 1-4:
Manhattan Brass Quintet: Wayne duMaine,
trumpet; Kevin Cobb, trumpet; Gregory Evans,
horn; Michael Seltzer, trombone; Stephen
Foreman, tuba
Track 5: Lyris Hung, five-string violin; Jay Kauffman,
guitar; Kitty Brazelton, voice; Mat Fields, double
bass; Danny Tunick, bongos
Track 6:
Chris Washburne, trombone; soundtrack created
by Kitty Brazelton at Columbia University
Computer Music Studio
Track 7:
Danny Weiss, alto saxophone; Dan Barrett, cello
Tracks 8-10:
California E.A.R. Unit: Dorothy Stone, flute;
Marty Walker, bass clarinet; Robin Lorentz,
violin; Erika Duke, cello; Vicki Ray, piano,
organ, sampler (EAR Unit out-takes); Amy
Knoles, extended drum kit; John Magnussen,
marimba
Come Spring! was recorded at Sorcerer Sound, NYC, June 1998, by
Silas Brown; edited and composited by Silas Brown with the help of the quintet; produced by Lyris Hung.
R was recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, April 1998, by David Merrill and Hugo Dwyer; mixed by Kitty Brazelton and David Merrill; edited and composited by Hugo Dwyer.
Sono Como Una Tromba Larga was recorded at Joe Music, NYC, August 2001 by Hugo Dwyer; mixed and edited by Hugo Dwyer.
Called Out Ol’ Texas was recorded live in concert at Roulette Intermedium, NYC, December
1994, by Hugo Dwyer; edited by Hugo Dwyer. Sonata for the Inner Ear was recorded by Scott Fraser at his studio in Glendale,
CA, July 2001; mixed, edited, and composited by Kitty Brazelton and Scott Frasier.
All pieces published by Sincim Vinahel
(ASCAP).
Executive Director for CRI: John G. Schultz
Partial funding for this recording has been provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and the Aaron Copland Fund for
Music.
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