{"id":17822,"date":"2022-11-14T01:39:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T01:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=17822"},"modified":"2022-11-14T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T01:50:16","slug":"vasco-mendonca-drumming-gp-play-off-cd","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/vasco-mendonca-drumming-gp-play-off-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasco Mendon\u00e7a &#038; Drumming GP &#8211; Play Off &#8211; CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vasco Mendon\u00e7a<\/strong>\u2019s attention to detail is somehow euphoric, contagious. In \u201c<strong>Play Off<\/strong>\u201d he invites the Portuguese percussion group <strong>Drumming GP<\/strong> to play four of his new compositions.<\/p>\n<p>The title suggests that everything is more of a challenge than an invitation and part of the thrill of this music is to navigate the idea of the suggestions addressed by the composer in the title of the pieces or in the liner notes of the CD. He describes \u201c<strong>Play Off<\/strong>\u201d, the opening piece, as a \u201cparallel between musical performance and game playing, a strong influence in my work, is perhaps clearer than ever in this piece, where the game playing between musicians also brings about a particular form of choreography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The openness of its four parts builds up as a great introduction to everything that happens in and around it. In \u201cAmerican Settings\u201d <strong>Vasco<\/strong> uses the words of two American Poets \u2013 Terrance Hayes and Tracy K. Smith \u2013 as outlines of contemporary America and a longing for another time. In \u201cThree Memos\u201d <strong>Drumming GP<\/strong> were asked to limit their instrument resources and perform the piece with the idea of rarefaction in mind. Each of the three parts is an excellent exercise of space, time, and sonic creation. The 12 minutes of \u201cAphasia\u201d show <strong>Vasco Mendon\u00e7a<\/strong> trying to liberate himself from standard ideas of contemporary music and moving into languages closer to late 1990s electronic music.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic music usually emulates contemporary ideas but here the composer inverts the roles and creates a monumental piece, constantly shapeshifting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holuzam<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Holuzam<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Vasco Mendon\u00e7a<\/strong>\u2019s attention to detail is somehow euphoric, contagious. In \u201c<strong>Play Off<\/strong>\u201d he invites the Portuguese percussion group <strong>Drumming GP<\/strong> to play four of his new compositions.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic music usually emulates contemporary ideas but here the composer inverts the roles and creates a monumental piece, constantly shapeshifting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC25s0DMJydxYw3Yj2andVfA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[3284,2543,4301],"class_list":{"0":"post-17822","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-drumming-gp","7":"product_tag-holuzam","8":"product_tag-vasco-mendonca","9":"product_shipping_class-cd","10":"pa_artist-drumming-gp","11":"pa_artist-vasco-mendonca","12":"pa_genre-contemporary","13":"pa_genre-electronics","14":"pa_genre-experimental","15":"pa_label-holuzam","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=17822"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17822"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}