Efr?n del Valle <efrendv@yahoo.es> wrote:
I didn't get Jerry Hunt's "Phalba" not having heard his "Song Drapes". I got the latter with the monthly package and I was amazed. How recommendable is "Phalba"? It seems that Tzadik always keeps a hidden treasure somewhere.
Thanks a lot in advance.
I think Jerry Hunt's great & I thought so long before I moved to Texas, where he lived for most of his life. Phalba's pretty different from the Song Drapes. It's all music for live instrumentalists some with electronics, maybe some without (I'm out of town right now and as much as I like his music, I didn't bring any Jerry Hunt CDs with me. I didn't bring any CDs, but that's another story.). So it's related but quite different in how it sounds overall. I like the pieces on Phalba, but it's not all in the same vein like the Song Drapes disc. For me, the best-sounding Hunt recording of his electronic works is Haramand Planes: Three Translation Links, originally released by What's Next, then those discs were taken on by OO Discs, I'm not sure how readily available it is. For what it's worth, Hunt's artistic executor, Rod Stasick, says that most of Hunt's releases have something technically wrong with them: recording quality, misreadings from the scores or, in the case of Haramand Planes, mislabelled tracks. There are apparently only 3-5 different Song Drapes as far as formal distinctions go, though the CD has more tracks than that and there's no literal repetitions of music that I've noticed. But then, I don't think I've heard the disc since he told me that either. Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com