Contact performs Brian Eno’s "Discreet Music" Contact performs Brian Eno’s "Discreet Music"

About Discreet Music
On the 40th anniversary of the release of Brian Eno’s electronic ambient masterpiece Discreet Music, Toronto based chamber music ensemble Contact weighs in with a modern arrangement by percussionist Jerry Pergolesi that harks back to the adventurous experimentalism of the original. In Contact’s version, acoustic and electric instruments (cello, violin, soprano saxophone, guitar, double bass, vibraphone, piano, flute and gongs) take the place of Eno’s EMS synthesizer, channeling the underlying melodies of the piece until the ensemble itself becomes a kind of “looping apparatus,” as Pergolesi describes it. “My hope is that this recording pays homage to an influential piece of music and fulfills its own purpose as, in Eno’s words, ‘not something intrinsic to certain arrangements of things – to [a] certain way of organizing sounds – but actually a process of apprehending that we, as listeners, could choose to conduct. Music is something your mind does.’” 
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About Contact
Contact combines 21st Century classical/experimental music with the sensibilities of rock and jazz to form a hybrid chamber ensemble that defies genres. Praised by the Globe and Mail as “thought-provoking” and “highly entertaining”,Contact has performed at venues and new music festivals around the world and premiered works by emerging and established Canadian and international composers including Allison Cameron, Jordan Nobles, Barry Truax, Donnacha Dennehy, Helmut Oehring, David Lang and Michael Gordon.
 
Their latest release on Cantaloupe Music is a re-imagining of Brian Eno’s electronic ambient masterpiece Discreet Music,weighing in with a modern arrangement that harks back to the adventurous experimentalism of the original. Released in November 2015, the recording has been featured as album of the week on WQXR (New York), Best of the Week on iTunes, release of the month on WNYC and featured album of the month on RTE Lyric FM (Ireland) and Echoes (Philadelphia). Previous releases include Undercurrents featuring the music of Jordan Nobles and their collaboration with composer Allison Cameron, A Gossamer Bit.
 
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