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    Bookburners

    The Vinyl Remixes

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    SKU: LP-CMCV 20515
    Format: Vinyl
    Number of Discs: 1
    Release Date: November 11, 2014
    Label: Centrediscs

    Bookburners

    The Vinyl Remixes

    THIS PRODUCT IS THE VINYL REMIXES OF BOOKBURNERS.
    FOR THE CD/DVD VERSION, CLICK HERE

    EXCLUSIVE: This is the limited-edition vinyl album of Bookburners with 15 remixes by composer Nicole Lizée based on the five tracks from the Bookburners album.

    Bookburners comprises a collection of Nicole Lizée’s works from the past five years picking up where 2008’s This Will Not Be Televised left off. Bookburners presents a number of Lizée’s fixations and obsessions that have infiltrated the five pieces on the album: a reinterpretation of rave culture, John Cage, Hitchcock, witchhouse meets classical, turntablism, iconography, meticulously notated glitch, auteur theory, voyeurism, malfunction, psychopaths, phantoms, backmasking, crate digging, grave digging and a sonic depiction of the imagination of graphic designer Saul Bass – and their melding with classical, concert, notated music. The record features an all-star cast of stellar musicians from across Canada and the U.S., among which include New York City’s So Percussion, turntablist DJ P-Love, drummer Ben Reimer, and cellist Stéphane Tétreault.

    Montreal based composer Nicole Lizée creates new music from an eclectic mix of influences including the earliest MTV videos, turntablism, rave culture, glitch, Hitchcock, Kubrick, and 1960s psychedelia. She is fascinated by the errors made by outmoded and well-worn technology and captures these glitches, notates them and integrates them into live performance.

    In 2001 Lizée received a Master of Music degree from McGill University. After a decade and a half of composition, her commission list of over 40 works is varied and distinguished, and includes the Kronos Quartet, BBC Proms, l’Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, CBC, New York City’s Kaufman Center, San Francisco Symphony, So Percussion, Eve Egoyan, Australian Art Orchestra, Fondation Arte Musica, Gryphon Trio and the SMCQ. Her music has been performed worldwide in renowned venues including Carnegie Hall (NYC), Royal Albert Hall (London), Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam) and Cité de la Musique (Paris) – and in major festivals including the BBC Proms (UK), Huddersfield (UK), Bang On a Can (USA), and All Tomorrow’s Parties (UK).

    Lizée was awarded the prestigious 2013 Canada Council for the Arts Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music. She is a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow (2010). Her work for piano and notated glitch, Hitchcock Études, was chosen by the International Society for Contemporary Music to be featured at the 2014 World Music Days in Poland. Additional awards and nominations include a Prix Opus (2013), two Prix collégien de musique contemporaine (2012, 2013), the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers’ Top 10 List (2008) and the 2002 Canada Council for the Arts Robert Fleming Prize for achievements in composition.

    SIDE A

    1. Hitchcock Études: Saul Bass Etude 2:37
    Megumi Masaki

    2. Hitchcock Études: Schoolhouse Etude 4:12
    Megumi Masaki

    3. Hitchcock Études: Shower Etude 3:31
    Megumi Masaki

    4. White Label Experiment: Experiment 1 2:29
    So Percussion
    Nicole Lizée, turntables

    5. White Label Experiment: Experiment 2 3:43
    So Percussion
    Nicole Lizée, turntables

    6. White Label Experiment: Experiment 3 2:31
    So Percussion
    Nicole Lizée, turntables

     

    SIDE B

    1. Bookburners: Book 1 2:16
    Stéphane Tétreault, cello
    Paolo Kapunan [DJ P-Love], turntables

    2. Bookburners: Book 2 2:17
    Stéphane Tétreault, cello
    Paolo Kapunan [DJ P-Love], turntables

    3. Bookburners: Book 3 1:42
    Stéphane Tétreault, cello
    Paolo Kapunan [DJ P-Love], turntables

    4. Ouijist: Spectre 1 2:19
    Mark Takeshi McGregor, alto flute
    Ben Reimer, percussion
    Rebecca Whitling, violin and omnichord
    Mark Haney, double bass
    Nicole Lizée, spectres

    5. Ouijist: Spectre 2 2:43
    Mark Takeshi McGregor, alto flute
    Ben Reimer, percussion
    Rebecca Whitling, violin and omnichord
    Mark Haney, double bass
    Nicole Lizée, spectres

    6. Ouijist: Spectre 3 2:07
    Mark Takeshi McGregor, alto flute
    Ben Reimer, percussion
    Rebecca Whitling, violin and omnichord
    Mark Haney, double bass
    Nicole Lizée, spectres

    7. Son of the Man With the Golden Arms: Golden Arm 1 2:55
    Architek Percussion
    Ben Reimer, drum kit
    Steve Raegele & Jonathan Barriault, guitar

    8. Son of the Man With the Golden Arms: Golden Arm 2 1:36
    Architek Percussion
    Ben Reimer, drum kit
    Steve Raegele & Jonathan Barriault, guitar

    9. Son of the Man With the Golden Arms: Golden Arm 3 3:53
    Architek Percussion
    Ben Reimer, drum kit
    Steve Raegele & Jonathan Barriault, guitar

     

    REVIEWS:

    “[Lizée] is an original, both lyrical and disembodied, innovative in her minimalist deconstruction, thoroughly a voice of today. An original voice in full-flower, in fact. Highly recommended music.”– Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate

    This recording generously supported by:


    We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters.

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