Isabelle

by Zeena Parkins

Isabelle cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Avant
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:36
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Avant-garde harpist Zeena Parkins brilliantly redefines her traditional instrument on the highly experimental, deeply challenging solo recording 'Isabelle'. The album extensively utilizes electronic processing and aggressive, highly percussive extended techniques to create jagged, completely atonal bursts of free improvisation. Released on John Zorn's Avant label, it completely shatters classical expectations, functioning as a vital cornerstone of the downtown noise-improv scene.

Genres

Descriptors: experimental, avant-garde, conceptual, acoustic, instrumental, harp, chamber, ambient, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Outside (2:58)
  2. The Magician (5:05)
  3. EL OUED: Romance (1:36)
  4. Si Mahmoud Essadi: The Convert (5:00)
  5. La Petite Gironde: Victor Barrucand Lends A Hand (1:37)
  6. Fever (1:16)
  7. Monastery Of Kenadsa (2:12)
  8. AIN SEFRA: In Captivity And Flood (4:00)
  9. Oblivion Seekers (2:42)
  10. The Breath Of Night (1:48)
  11. Look Out For Gail Garrity - Girl Wonder (3:18)
  12. Chamber Of Eternal Wisdom (2:26)
  13. ...The Uncanny Feeling Of Being Wathced... (3:08)
  14. "MY GOD! Have I Flung Myself Into An Endless Void?" (1:34)
  15. Ju-Jitsu Jimmy - Impulse Beam Rising (1:56)

Credits

  • Folco Quilici - artwork
  • Margaret Parkins - cello
  • Mark De Gli Antoni - edited by
  • David Shea - edited by [assistant]
  • Ikue Mori - percussion [electric], written-by
  • Lisa Crowder - piano
  • Sara Parkins - violin

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