{"id":5695,"date":"2018-09-10T23:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5695"},"modified":"2018-09-22T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T20:14:07","slug":"daniel-schmidt-in-my-arms-many-flowers-lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/daniel-schmidt-in-my-arms-many-flowers-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Schmidt &#8211; In My Arms, Many Flowers &#8211; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Recital<\/strong> is proud to publish the first album\u00a0of\u00a0American Gamelan composer <strong>Daniel Schmidt<\/strong> (b. 1942). Schmidt, who emerged in the Bay Area music scene in the 1970s, wove\u00a0the threads\u00a0of traditional Eastern Gamelan music together with American Minimalism (repetitive music).<strong> Schmidt<\/strong> was (and is still) a prime figure in the development of American Gamelan music \u2013 \u00a0studying and collaborating with Lou Harrison, Jody Diamond, and Paul Dresher.\u00a0He currently is a teacher at Mills College, teaching instrument building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The recordings on &#8220;<strong>In My Arms, Many Flowers<\/strong>&#8221; date from 1978 \u2013 1982, selected\u00a0directly from Schmidt\u2019s personal cassette archive. It holds two studio tracks, along with two live performances. \u00a0\u00a0The first track, <em>Dawn<\/em> (commissioned by composer John Adams), employs\u00a0an early digital sampler provided by Pauline Oliveros. It holds the sound of a string quartet. The nature of this piece is breathtaking, an ocean of strings pulsing beneath the gliding bells of the gamelan \u2013 such a lovely interplay. \u00a0 Furthermore, the title track, <em>Flowers<\/em>, features the addition of a rebab, a traditional bowed instrument, which reels through the piece, netted and taught.<\/p>\n<p>The final two works are strictly\u00a0gamelan compositions.\u00a0<em>Ghosts<\/em> is a a dynamic piece; rife with dexterous\u00a0euphoria- it well displays the skillset of the percussionists heard on the LP. The closing work, <em>Faint Impressions<\/em>, is a somber elegy. Demonstrating the fragility and grace possible with the gamelan; sounding almost as an evening piano sonata.<\/p>\n<p>This is album is unique document from an under-represented movement\u00a0of American New Music. An account of the curious\u00a0beauty and woven emotions hidden within\u00a0resonating\u00a0pieces of metal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recital<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recital<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Recital<\/strong> is proud to publish the first album\u00a0of\u00a0American Gamelan composer <strong>Daniel Schmidt<\/strong> (b. 1942). Schmidt, who emerged in the Bay Area music scene in the 1970s, wove\u00a0the threads\u00a0of traditional Eastern Gamelan music together with American Minimalism (repetitive music).<strong> Schmidt<\/strong> was (and is still) a prime figure in the development of American Gamelan music \u2013 \u00a0studying and collaborating with Lou Harrison, Jody Diamond, and Paul Dresher.\u00a0He currently is a teacher at Mills College, teaching instrument building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The album, &#8220;<strong>In My Arms, Many Flowers<\/strong>&#8220;, is unique document from an under-represented movement\u00a0of American New Music. An account of the curious\u00a0beauty and woven emotions hidden within\u00a0resonating\u00a0pieces of metal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-GIDjTGWYXo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[2564,2565],"class_list":{"0":"post-5695","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-daniel-schmidt","7":"product_tag-recital","8":"product_shipping_class-lp","9":"pa_artist-daniel-schmidt","10":"pa_genre-ambient","11":"pa_genre-minimal","12":"pa_genre-new-wave","13":"pa_label-recital","15":"first","16":"outofstock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5695","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=5695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}