American Requiem I

American Requiem I

Track Listings

1. Floating

2. Clam

3. Head Hurts

Editorial Reviews
Gramophon Magazine, August 1, 2003
This new work weaves both Russian and Californian themes from Orthodox chant to saxophone passages and four-part harmony.

Album Description
American Requiem composed by Evgeni Kostitsyn

Using texts from speeches by:

GW Bush, Osama bin Laden,

Amr Moussa, Abraham Lincoln,

Walt Whitman, EE Cummings,

& passages from

The Koran and The Bible -

Performers: Consortium Kostitsyn (a collection of Composer’s colleagues- singers, two choirs and members from Moscow orchestras, recorded in St. Petersburg and Moscow)

"The collision of civilizations, cultures and religions is mirrored in this new Requiem for all innocent victims, of all religions, then and since, of "9/11"

American Requiem is a funeral mass for our time, and inspired by speeches from Abraham Lincoln to G.W.Bush, Walt Whitman to E.E.Cummings, the Koran & Bible.

Political hypocrisy, Third World neglect and religious fanaticism are taking thousands of innocent lives around the world.

American Requiem is not only a polite candle lit by this composer in memory of all the victims, but our unusual times determined its creation.

American Requiem I, Music, Sh'mantra, A stunning album of improvised music drawing on dark ambience, free-form psychedlia, electronica, noise-art. too many insanity peppers

American Requiem I

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