Sonambient Complete Collection

by Harry Bertoia

Sonambient Complete Collection cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: February 2016
  • Label: Important
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 6:09:51
  • Community rating: 4.19/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This staggering, 11-CD box set compiles the entire recorded audio archive of the legendary mid-century modern sculptor and furniture designer. Recorded in a barn in Pennsylvania, the music consists entirely of the artist striking, bowing, and manipulating his own massive, resonant metal sculptures to create terrifying, cavernous metallic drones and harsh, shimmering overtones. The release finally properly contextualized his pioneering, highly physical approach to acoustic drone music.

Genres

Descriptors: cavernous, atmospheric, space

Tracklist

  1. Space Voyage (15:11)
  2. Echoes Of Other Times (14:45)
  3. Swift Sounds (9:17)
  4. Phosphorescence (12:51)
  5. Unfolding (18:27)
  6. Sounds Beyond (14:53)
  7. Gong Gong (16:01)
  8. Elemental (17:46)
  9. All And More (17:48)
  10. Passage (14:13)
  11. Energyzing (22:05)
  12. Mellow Tops (21:19)
  13. Continuum (20:06)
  14. Near And Far (21:47)
  15. Swinging Bars (10:58)
  16. Vulcan's Play (14:06)
  17. Ocean Mysteries (23:40)
  18. Softly Played (18:44)
  19. Here And Now (20:53)
  20. Unknown (13:03)
  21. Bellissima Bellissima Bellissima (18:15)
  22. Nova (13:43)

Credits

  • D'Otrange Mastai - sleeve notes [cd11]
  • Ken Smith - transferred by [lps 10570 transfer]
  • John Brien - task misc

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