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Benjamin Thigpen Human for Scale This multifaceted CD of Benjamin Thigpen's music is an essay in a great diversity of sensitive sound. But in its evocations, the music is also about more than sound. For Thigpen, music is a medium that speaks about ideas, thoughts, activities, scenes, images, conflicts. His music emerges from his thoughts on time and his feelings for poetry. 'step, under' (1998), for example, "is an exploration of the polyphony and heterophony of time." Of 'not even the rain' (2000), he writes: "What it's about. The vast energy concealed within any object, the infinite mystery beyond every surface. Glimpsing the beyond ..." In connection with 'balagan' (2001), he quotes Lautréamont: "... but I let you fall back into chaos, like diving bells." As a note to 'h' (1995), he writes: "Why is it called h. A whole word would have been too much, said too much. Even most letters have too many associations, too many friends gathering around them, hovering and chattering. Only h is sufficiently quiet ..." And he writes that 'dust' (1996) "is otherwise related to the shifting forms of smoke; the wind; driven snow in the headlights of a speeding car; and winter streetlights shining through the branches of leafless trees." As an afterthought, he quotes Paul Celan: "there are still songs to sing beyond mankind." Contents: step, under (1998) not even the rain (2000) balagan (2001) h (1995) dust (1996) Buy it!

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