Beauty in the Beast
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Composer: Wendy CarlosEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: East Side Digital
Soundtracks:
- Incantation
- Beauty In The Beast
- Poem For Bali
- Just Imagination
- That's Just It
- Yusae-Aisae
- C'est Afrique
- A Woman's Song
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Free Music Review: A revelation upon its release.
Hit: 5 Stars
As a student studying classical voice this recording was a revelation when I purchased it on cassette 22 years ago. I've just now discovered its been reissued on CD (I'm listening to my old cassette as I write this). Upon hearing "Beauty In The Beast" I understood that there was a world of electronic possibilities outside western acoustic tonalities and structures that didn't need to be mutually exclusive of them. Truly thoughtful, well composed, learned music from an equally thoughtful learned composer. Music of the highest order.
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From the roar of Tibetan horns and the clangor of metal percussion that opens Beauty in the Beast, Wendy Carlos in 1986 signaled a new direction for her music. Beauty in the Beast is Carlos's magnum opus, an album that should have established the synthesizer's role in the new global music landscape. More than that, it should have established Carlos as a composer and not just a Switched-on Bach jukebox. But not too many people were listening. Rereleased now after 14 years, Beauty in the Beast has lost none of its power. Carlos is both profound and poignant, dissonant and disarming on Beauty, as she fuses a global orchestra from her synthesizers. "Poem for Bali" is the centerpiece of the album, an episodic, 17-minute excursion as Carlos orchestrates the sounds and rhythms of a digital gamelan orchestra. In addition to replicating the metallophones, gongs, and flutes of the traditional gamelan, she creates her own hybrid sound designs, giving this work a surreal and sometimes harrowing tone, like a dream bent through funhouse mirrors. But then there are pieces such as "A Woman's Song," based on a Balkan melody. The title track merges nightmare landscapes and a crazed carnival calliope with a haunting theme that sounds like a lament for the end of the world. Beauty in the Beast is an essential recording of both modern composition and synthesis--Carlos should plug into this circuit again. --John DilibertoClassical Music CDs
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