Chile New York: Sound Environment [Live]

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A new recording by Julius Hemphill - even if it took 18 years to get here - is an event. This is music that was originally created as part of a sound-environment installation in the public space of the City University of New York Graduate Center Mall, music which "accompanied" more than 400 sculptures by Jeff Schlanger (famous for his in-the-moment paintings of musicians that grace many an album cover). This installation offered public recognition that the overthrow of the Popular Unity government in Chile and the murder of President Allende, through the twists and shouts of the Cold War, sooner or later would come to reverberate through New York City's streets. the subject dictated that this would not be light music, and this CD contains some of Hemphill's freest playing. Still, he was always a melodist: The beauty of his lines and the distinctiveness of his sound are ever present. This is an opportunity to hear Hemphill on tenor as well as on alto, and to overhear his experiments with flute and voice. Percussionist Warren Smith is also prominent here, and is given, perhaps, his best chance on record to shape a performance. In his record notes, Smith says that Hemphill played "opera on such a grand scale." No exaggeration, for Hemphill thought dialogically, richly reticulating his lines, always working conversationally; and since he frequently sings and overdubs himself for this work, this is musical drama of real consequence. It is also music of a place and time which can never be duplicated.

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