Percussionist Michael Udow, who is based in Michigan, is a multi-instrumentalist even beyond what is usual in his field; on this album alone he plays several dozen instruments with origins from Switzerland to Indonesia, and his wife, Nancy, adds four or five more on several of these works. The largest group is Japanese, and the music and drama of Japan are primary influences on these compositions, although Javanese gamelan sounds recur in the first of them, Over the Moon. Udow's notes (in English only) for that work are a ...
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Percussionist Michael Udow, who is based in Michigan, is a multi-instrumentalist even beyond what is usual in his field; on this album alone he plays several dozen instruments with origins from Switzerland to Indonesia, and his wife, Nancy, adds four or five more on several of these works. The largest group is Japanese, and the music and drama of Japan are primary influences on these compositions, although Javanese gamelan sounds recur in the first of them, Over the Moon. Udow's notes (in English only) for that work are a bit confusing. There are no texts, just a series of short movements consisting of specific instrumental timbres deployed in statements that resemble theatrical gestures. Yet each movement title refers to a haiku, and the texts of these are included in the booklet. All are related to the moon, and several are quite humorous (If my complaining wife/were alive, I might be/out watching the moon). Further, Udow writes that the opening melody of the work is related to a different poem, one...
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