Ensemble Pieces

by Christopher Hobbs

Ensemble Pieces cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Obscure
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released on Brian Eno's experimental Obscure Records imprint, Christopher Hobbs' 'Ensemble Pieces' explores rigorous systemic composition. The album relies on hypnotic, mathematical process music and minimalist structures to generate entirely instrumental, slowly shifting acoustic textures.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, minimal, repetitive, conceptual, experimental, ensemble, chamber

Tracklist

  1. Aran
  2. John Philip Sousa
  3. Christian Zeal And Activity
  4. Sentimentals
  5. McCrimmon Will Never Return
  6. 1, 2, 1-2-3-4

Credits

  • Christopher Hobbs - primary artist, composed by, tubular bells, triangle [triangles], cowbell [cowbells], toy piano, organ [reed organ]
  • John Adams - primary artist, composed by
  • Gavin Bryars - primary artist, composed by, organ [reed organ], triangle [triangles], wood block [wood blocks], cymbal [cymbals], double bass
  • John White - organ [reed organ], toy piano, triangle [triangles], drums
  • The San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble - flute, clarinet, clarinet [doubling bass-clarinet, doubling bass-drum], tuba, percussion [trap set], violin, viola [2 violas], cello, double bass, harp
  • Cornelius Cardew - cello
  • Mike Nicolls - drums
  • Derek Bailey - guitar

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