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Partch Ensemble - Partch: Bitter Music (2011)

Partch Ensemble - Partch: Bitter Music (2011)
  • Title: Partch: Bitter Music
  • Year Of Release: 2011
  • Label: Bridge Records
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
  • Total Time: 3:16:30
  • Total Size: 700 MB
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Tracklist:

Disc 1
1. Bitter Music: No. 1, Preface (07:26)
2. Bitter Music: No. 2, June 11, 1935, Santa Rosa, California (14:41)
3. Bitter Music: No. 3, June 15, Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta (09:46)
4. John Schneider – Bitter Music: No. 4, June 24, Today Is My Birthday (06:06)
5. John Schneider – Bitter Music: No. 5, London, October 1934 (03:35)
6. Bitter Music: No. 6, By the Rivers of Babylon (03:25)
7. Bitter Music: No. 7, I Draw My Last Bow, and There Is Silence (11:58)
8. Bitter Music: No. 8, Wimbledon, London, March 1935 (13:05)

Disc 2
1. Bitter Music: No. 9, Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935 (13:37)
2. Bitter Music: No. 10, July 20, Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding (07:42)
3. Bitter Music: No. 11, July 25, Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington (11:42)
4. John Schneider – Bitter Music: No. 12, August 5, Toledo (08:47)
5. Bitter Music: No. 13, August 11, SERA Camp, Ingot (07:00)
6. Bitter Music: No. 14, September 1, Cisco (13:02)

Disc 3
1. Bitter Music: No. 15, October 22, Nearing Monterey (08:16)
2. Bitter Music: No. 16, Letter form Hobo Pablo (03:29)
3. Bitter Music: No. 17, Near Lodi, I Cut the Huge Tokays (06:09)
4. Bitter Music: No. 18, October 24, Leaving Big Sur (09:44)
5. Bitter Music: No. 19, October 30, Big Creek (10:31)
6. Bitter Music: No. 20, November 15, Leaving Santa Barbara (09:45)
7. Bitter Music: No. 21, December, 1935, Night, Four Black Walls (08:07)
8. Bitter Music: No. 22, February 1, 1936, San Bernadino (04:37)
9. Harry Partch – Bitter Music: No. 23, Postlude (03:51)

This long-lost journal of Harry Partch’s wanderings during the Great Depression (from cleaning sewers to having tea with Irish poet W. B. Yeats) is an extraordinary musical portrait of an American pioneer, chronicling his occasionally hilarious and often heartbreaking struggles to forge a new music system outside the classical tradition. This première recording of Bitter Music takes the form of readings and collected musical fragments- an aural diary of what was going through Partch’s mind and ear during a critical period in his artistic development.


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