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Water and Fire by Don Skoog
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7 tracks | 31 minutes
Released Feb 2005
on CMP Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:20 Attendance to Ritual lyrics BUY MP3 05:20 Attendance to Ritual lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:20 Attendance to Ritual
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:02 Water lyrics BUY MP3 05:02 Water lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:02 Water
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These marimba pieces combine "Art Music" technique with Jazz improv and Latin rhythm
Bio / Background
Water and Fire
The Marimba Music of Don Skoog
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featuring
Steve Hashimoto, bass
Sam Koentopp, drums
Water and Fire was my first large-scale marimba work. Composed in 1979-80, it won Second prize in the 1982 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest. The first movement evokes the surge and ebb of moving Water, contrasted with the plop of light drizzle then a cascade through the leafy canopy of a dense forest, finally flowing to a gentle ending on the shores of a quiet lake. The second movement is about the Fire of emotion. It burns, feeding upon itself, in growing intensity until it ultimately extinguishes itself in a triumphant, if doomed, exhaustion. In the end, the fire is transcendent--reborn in spirit-- rekindled anew. If this sounds romantic to you, remember that it was written by a very, very young man. His romantic spirit is rekindled in me as well, whenever I perform this music. And that is reason enough for me to keep playing it.
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