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CB0022
Daniel
Lentz On
the Leopard Altar
Is
It Love? (9:04) Lascaux
(9:21) On
The Leopard Altar (5:19) Wolf
Is Dead (10:05) Requiem
(2:27)
Voices:
Jessica Lowe, Paul MacKey, Susan James, Dennis Parnell Keyboards:
Brad Ellis, David Kuehn, Arlene Dunlap, Daniel Lentz Wineglasses:
Brad Ellis, David Kuehn, Arlene Dunlap, Jessica Lowe, Susan James
On
the Leopard Altar, with its multiple vocal, keyboard and
wineglass parts, haunting neo-romantic melodies, and unusual additive
and subtractive structures, is a remarkable collection.
Lentz's
music inhabits what he terms a musical "state of becoming,"
where both new and reappearing musical and textual fragments are
fused through complex layering processes. However, the real basis of
his seductive music may be the dreamy impressionism of Debussy and
the lyrical voice and keyboard interaction of Schubert's lieder. --John
Schaefer, WNYC, New Sounds
The
form and flow of Is It Love? is determined by a subtractive
text/lyric process. The voices begin each line with the nearly
simultaneous sounding of all the phonemes of all of the words. As the
work progresses, phonemes and notes are taken away until a finished
line emerges.
Lascaux
is scored for wineglasses, sixteen of which are rubbed and nine of
which are struck. Other than reverb, no effects have been added to
the natural sounds of the glasses.
On
the Leopard Altar consists of six songs, each of which is heard
alone and in combination with those that preceded it. Each text line
makes its own kind of sense, which will change when combined with
other lines from which phonemes are borrowed in order to make
different words and new lines.
In
Wolf Is Dead each line of text is joined by a phonetic link to
the line following it, creating a word chain (e.g., "you died"
overlapping "you did"). This concept is the basis for the
musical structure as well, with each chord overlapping and fusing
with the one following it.
Requiem
attempts to capture the experience of hearing a lone singer in a
large, empty cathedral. While this occurs, and from an entirely
different space, one hears big, resonant "church bells"
producing an array of overtones that seem to form melodies of their
own. --DL
Produced
by Yale Evelev. Recorded
and mixed by Daniel Protheroe, Santa Barbara Sound, February 1984. Moog
synthesizer programming by Daniel Lentz. Thanks
to Leslie Gill, Kip Hanrahan, and Dan and Lil.
CD
mastered by Kevin Gray, Acoustech Mastering, Camarillo, CA.
Design
by Jim Fox. Cover
photo © Mark Kostich. Used by permission. All
other photos © Philip Baird/www.anthroarcheart.org.
All
words and music by Daniel Lentz (Lentz Music, BMI), except for On
the Leopard Altar, which has words by Daniel Lentz and Jessica
Lowe, and Requiem, which uses text from the Latin Mass.
This
recording was released on vinyl by ICON Records in 1984. Cold
Blue Music thanks Yale Evelev for his kind support of this CD.
©& P 1984 ICON Records. © 2005 Cold Blue Music. All rights
reserved.
Cold
Blue Music, P.O. Box 2938, Venice, CA 90294-2938 www.coldbluemusic.com
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