A Young Person's Guide to Phill Niblock

by Phill Niblock

A Young Person's Guide to Phill Niblock cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Blast First
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:20:17
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Esteemed American avant-garde composer Phill Niblock presents a towering, intensely concentrated collection of extremely dense acoustic drones. 'A Young Person's Guide to Phill Niblock' constructs absolutely massive walls of sound by extensively multi-tracking sustained acoustic instruments, generating highly complex, slowly shifting microtonal beat frequencies. It remains a deeply physically imposing, highly revered masterclass in pure minimalist drone composition.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, repetitive, instrumental, droning, long-form, minimal, strings, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Held Tones (22:26)
  2. Didjeridoos and Don'ts (13:34)
  3. Ten Auras (21:21)
  4. Ten Auras (Live) (21:19)
  5. A Trombone Piece (22:14)
  6. A Third Trombone (20:45)
  7. Unmentionable Piece for Trombone and Sousaphone (18:37)

Credits

  • Phill NiBlock - primary artist
  • Barbara Held - flute
  • Ulrich Krieger - didgeridoo [didjeridu], tenor saxophone
  • James Fulkerson - trombone
  • Jon English - trombone
  • George Lewis - trombone, sousaphone

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