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Evening Air, Freeway Birds, No Wind Birds by Kent Sparling
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1 tracks | 60 minutes
Released Jul 2007
on Purling / Jicama Salad Company
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Bio / Background
Kent Sparling describes “Evening Air...”:
From my earliest days of composing experimental ambient music I have been fascinated with the modern incarnation of the musical drone.
David Reck writes, in “Music of the Whole Earth”: “The reinforcement of tonal centers by one or more notes of a continuous drone is found in Euro-America, Africa, eastern Europe, central Asia, the Arabic-influenced belt from north Africa to Malaysia, and in the pockets of tribal culture in southeast Asia. Elements of the drone can perhaps be found in every musical culture of the world.”
And as with traditional musical forms, so too with modern music. Around the tonal center of the drone, the musician is free to find expression along the full range of simple to complex harmonies and overtones. The drone acts as a structural scaffolding, and the satellite subsidiary tones of the melody circle around the tonal nucleus (as Curt Sachs has put it) “like butterflies around a flower.
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