Renegade Heaven

by Julia Wolfe / Bang on a Can

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 March 2001
  • Label: Cantaloupe
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 57:55
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Collaborating with a premier contemporary classical ensemble, the New York composer delivers a fiercely energetic, rhythmically driving masterwork. 'Renegade Heaven' heavily utilizes aggressive, rock-inspired instrumentation alongside classical strings, blurring the lines between minimalist chamber music and highly repetitive, hypnotic experimental rock.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, repetitive, progressive, guitars, rhythmic, percussive, ensemble, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Believing (8:57)
  2. Escalator (11:15)
  3. I Buried Paul (9:45)
  4. Movement Within (16:35)
  5. Exquisite Corpses (11:23)

Credits

  • Bang On A Can - primary artist
  • Robert Black - bass, guitar [harmonics guitar]
  • Maya Beiser - cello, organ
  • Mark Stewart - electric guitar
  • Bang On A Can All-Stars - ensemble
  • Lisa Moore - keyboards, piano, harpsichord
  • Steven Schick - percussion, guitar [mallet guitar]
  • Julia Wolfe - composed by

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