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Dark Full Ride

by Julia Wolfe

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Julia Wolfe's Dark Full Ride: Music in Multiples is her first album since 2003. It consists of four new compositions, each clocking in at over 15 minutes, each written for multiples of individual instruments - nine bagpipes, four drum sets, six pianos, and eight double basses. "Like staring for a long time at a Rothko painting," Wolfe says, "I imagined each of these pieces as an exploration of one color. But in truth an instrument isn't really single timbre. There are a myriad of worlds within each sound."

Working closely with the performers during the composing process, Wolfe uncovered a never-before-heard music. For example, while writing "LAD," she discovered the initial drone produced while filling the bagpipe with air, using that as the piece's introduction. The first seven minutes of the title track "Dark Full Ride" use only a drum set's hi-hats. "my lips from speaking" builds on the piano riff from a classic R&B song to showcase the instrument's ferocity. And finally, "Stronghold" shows the bass isn't just about low end.

"With each piece I tried to dive into a psychedelic landscape," she notes, "at once multilayered, fractured, ecstatic, silent, driving, cacophonous, and direct."

Matthew Welch - bagpipes
David Cossin, Matt Ward, Michael Lipsey, Tom Kolor - drums
Lisa Moore - piano
Robert Black - double bass

Talujon Percussion Quartet is featured on "Dark Full Ride"

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released November 10, 2009

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