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Three Pieces by Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble
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fave it Experimental | Instrumental Rock
3 tracks | 32 minutes
Released Aug 2006
on Microearth Records
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"Post-Rock" instrumental percussion music with a vintage minimalist feel, this CD includes composed electronic music featuring live percussion and guest string musicians.
Editorial review
It is hard to conceive of anyone <i>not</i> approaching the Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble with respect. The Winston-Salem project combining "adults with disabilities" and percussion instruments is noble, virtuous, and capable of inflicting great genius upon tobacco country, an aspect of which would be a discography consisting of interesting percussion-orientated projects. As of 2005, this collection is still in its early stages. Three Pieces is the second recording to be issued featuring the group, under the direction of multi-instrumentalist and composer Aaron Bachelder. The material was recorded in 2002, pressed and printed nearly three years later. Bachelder composed the "three pieces" and plays a large part in their unfolding with cleanly played electric guitar parts. He has come up with an interesting style of music with which to make use of this ensemble's talents, accenting instruments such as vibraphone, bells, and drum set in a music that comes to life, for the most part elegantly. Some instruments are not accented enough, speaking in terms of the mix -- the trap drums are too far to the background, which is a shame considering the part they might have played in fortifying a tinny drywalling of electronics. Listeners may hear Erik Satie or gamelan in the repetitive, strongly consonant melodic lines. The opening "Parallax" marks promising artistic heights for the project which unfortunately may not have lived up to itself by the time nearly 20 minutes of "All Lives Intersect" is finished. This must be Bachelder's "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" in terms of how this project might be accepted, the material seeming to require its lengthiness in order to properly exist despite any and all negative outcomes. Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
The Enrichment Center is an arts-based alternative day program serving adults with disabilities since 1995, providing instruction and performing opportunities in dance, drama, art, and poetry, as well as life skills training and vocational services. In 1997, the music program as well as the Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble were founded by composer Aaron Bachelder. The members of the ECPE, having little or no prior musical experience, were and are selected from the student body of the Enrichment Center after evaluation of talent and (especially) interest. Mr. Bachelder composes the majority of the groups music, drawing on percussion ensemble tradition and the chamber tradition in general, folk and country music, popular and rock music, as well as the musics of many other cultures.
Their previous work has been well received critically; Eugene Chadbourne, writing for the All-Music Guide, described it as "...inspired.", while New Music Box included it among "...
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