Meridian Arts Ensemble Brink Super-Audio CD

Meridian's 8th album for Channel Classics features incredible music by David Sanford, Nick Didkovsky and Elliott Sharp. This CD is packed with the things that Meridian does best: complicated, virtuosic, high-energy, bizarre versions of music that is more informed by the vernacular than the conservatory. 'On this disc, we present three commissioned pieces, each of which we hope will become a major contribution to the literature. For a long time, we have wanted to design concert programs with just a few large scale works, each of which developed it's ideas fully. Now the repertoire is growing, and we are on the brink of something new. All three of these pieces draw on various styles of music available to today's listener, from free improvisation in a densely notated art-rock setting to evocations of African vocal polyphony, from oblique references to 1970's television themes to the rhythms and intonations of a sermonizing preacher. Yet each piece creates it's own unique style and language. We recorded this CD in the Doopsgezinde Kerk in the town square of Deventer, Holland, in a large pedestrian plaza referred to locally as Brink.'

1. Corpus - Antiphon 2. Corpus - Introit 3. Corpus - Shot 4. Corpus - Krez/M?nner 5. Corpus - de Profundis 6. Corpus - Sermon 7. Beyond the Curve 8. Steamier Sinner Blamed 9. An Idle Saint Remembers 10. Terrible As Mean Denims 11. Meanie Master Blinders 12. Beastler Madmen Risen 13. Mere Brains Is Lamented 14. Miserable Sinner Mated 15. Denser Mealtime Brains 16. Last Inane Dismemberer 17. Remedial, Eminent Brass 18. Manliest Base Reminder 19. Able, Saner Determinism 20. A Mean, Dim Terribleness 21. Steamier Limb Ensnared 22. Merriest, Blamed, Insane