A Temperament for Angels

CB0017

Michael Jon Fink

A Temperament for Angels


  1. A Temperament for Angels (28:24)

violins, Robin Lorentz

cellos, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick

cymbals, Jonathan Marmor and Michael Jon Fink

sampler keyboards, Michael Jon Fink


For beauty is nothing

but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,

and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains

to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.

-- R. M. Rilke: Duino Elegies (tr., Edward Snow)


Produced by Michael Jon Fink and Jim Fox. Recorded and mixed by Scott Fraser, Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, December 2003-January 2004. Samples designed and recorded by Jim Fox, The Room, Venice, CA, October 2003. Mastered by Kevin Gray, Acoustech Mastering, Camarillo, CA. Design by Jim Fox. Cover photo:, photographer unknown; backcover photo, Jim Fox; interior photo, courtesy of Center for Land Use Interpretation.


A Temperament for Angels© 2004 Michael Jon Fink. CD © p 2004 Cold Blue Music. All rights reserved.

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