Gloryland

Gloryland

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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
  1. I'm On My Journey HOme
  2. An Address For All (Instrumental)/Like Noah's Weary Dove
  3. Wayfaring Stranger
  4. Wayfaring Stranger (Instrumental)
  5. Where We'll Never Grow Old
  6. Ecstacy
  7. The Wagoner's Lad
  8. Mercy-Seat
  9. Return Again
  10. The Lost Girl
  11. Palmetto
  12. Pleading Saviour
  13. Merrick
  14. The Shining Shore
  15. Saint's Delight
  16. Just Over In The Gloryland
  17. You Fair And Pretty Ladies
  18. Parting Friends/Wayfaring Stranger (Instrumental)
  19. Green Pastures

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Free Music Review: Incandescent!
Hit: 5 Stars

I'm completely in love with this album, both the performances and the music itself. I know there is a diversity of opinion about a group like Anonymous 4 performing music like this, and I can understand why. They don't do a typical "period" performance of the works, which usually comes out as dry as a stick and about as interesting (and yet still inaccurate somehow). But they also aren't ignoring what scholars have learned about performance practice either. They have managed to strike a balance between the two, and the performances come off as fresh, tasteful and engaging in a genre that has all but fallen off the map.

The music itself presents an interesting sound that will be largely unfamiliar to contemporary listeners. Many reviewers have remarked about the "raw" sound of some of the traditional shape note music, and they're not responding to the quality of the voices or lack thereof per se. Rather, this rawness comes from the compositional technique, namely, a preponderance of open intervals such as the fifth, fourth and octave, coupled with a modal-sounding avoidance of the 3rd and 7th degrees of the scale in the melodic lines. The first track is a typical example, and the sound here is open and raw because it's chock full of fourths, fifths, octaves and little else; the ringing effect is magnified by the group's consistently perfect intonation. These procedures are not modal in the strict sense, yet they do make one think of the Ars Nova of the 11th century and for the same reason. Compare that sound with track 9, "Return Again". This piece spends a lot of time emphasizing the interval of the third and the sixth, so it consequently sounds amazingly sweet and full in contrast.

Then there are the performances. The vocal sound is ravishing, polished with an almost lapidary care. Intonation is spot on, the ensemble is perfect even to the ornaments, breathing, and terminal consonants, and the presentation is highly energetic. The blend of the vocal colors is almost perfectly and very pleasingly matched. The group uses vibrato sparingly if at all, yet the vocal tone quality is unforced and open. They also make an effort to emulate the idiomatic ornaments and quarter-tone slides very convincingly. The only other group I know that comes up to this high level of accomplishment is Chanticleer, an all-boy group with a very different artistic focus.

I'm thrilled that Anonymous 4 has chosen to present a unique and almost unknown genre of music. The American musical heritage is much richer than is supposed, and this disc makes a case for its appreciation.
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