Vince Mendoza - Epiphany
November 8, 2007 by quoyle
Posted in the category Strings , Blog , Classical , Discs , Musical Instruments
"Now in the ocean depths with no body, but rather 'with my mind I try to touch the bottom"
Nasos Vaghenás Dance Dark
In these days of hectic work, the only moment of calm that I devote myself completely are those two-hour train ride that I decided to dedicate some time to carefully listen to a disc or as background to a thoughtful stupor that sometimes I axle on the journey. The Sunday Ipod load discs that will accompany me during the week and then according to the mood of the day, if I choose a number between days. Yesterday I came across something really nice, deep trouble with which I can detach the disk Epiphany by Vince Mendoza. If there is a wonder in nature, and 'the sound of the strings when and' orchestrated well, when the notes slide across a smooth continuity 'imperceptible, can not you feel it move quickly, even in dissonance. Here Mendoza and 'a great arranger, one of the most' great contemporaries, quell'impromptu disk after 10 seconds you hear so many smells, it is projected into the past, Schoenberg, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and then hints of jazz suddenly opened the soundscape where you did not think he could get. And heard the plane Discrete John Taylor notes that Shakes the wise is not clear where and 'the border, and then the drums Peter Erskine in that marvel of composition and' Esperanza. And there are no words for the sound of the London Symphony Orchestra, here I forget, I astraggo, I immerse myself completely in these soundscapes and in this heat that only the sound of real wood bows can create.
On Air: Vince Mendoza Impromptu from Epiphany
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I think that now is the momrnto to ask other disks.
sissi, definitely.
Lisa
is definitely one of these evenings we organize, we can see in Florence, and you pitch some other disk.
Kisses see you soon
vai.
(Chebbello, chebbe '!)
And why you should detach it?
Vince Mendoza is one of the rare eclectic, that what they touch turns to gold, as Jim Beard and the late Don Grolnick.
Get * all * what he did, although it is difficult: Start Here (Angelicus and Her Corner, from ecstasy), Instructions Inside (continuous rotation for weeks), Sketches, Jazzpana with Arif Mardin, the two collaborations with Joni Mitchell ( Both Sides Now, Travelogue, Dreamland).
On his site there is everything. I recommend it. Net, no. Com.
Finally, could not agree on the ineffable beauty of the orchestra used well, but you put some "just" too.
In the words of another great late Joe Zawinul:
"People make a big mistake in putting down electronic music. Yes, it's been misused and abused, but that's true of every music. There is nothing wrong with electronic music as long as you're putting some soul behind the technology. "
Hello Nicola, I know all the other work of Mendoza collaborated with Joni Mitchell, who can forget the wonder of Answer Me My Love for Both Sides Now, and then Jazzpana with the sax of Michael Brecker .....
The only remain of my idea, I'm not opposed to electronic music for charity ', but that warmth of which I speak and I feel communicating it can only wood arches
a greeting
Fabio