Detours Gene Tyranny
Album info
Album-Release:
2012
HRA-Release:
23.06.2014
Label: Unseen Worlds
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Artist: Gene Tyranny
Composer: Gene Tyranny
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 13 Detours 12:16
- 2 George Fox Searches 19:26
- 3 She Wore Red Shoes 11:27
- 4 Intuition 05:52
Info for Detours
Detours is "Blue" Gene Tyranny's first album of new piano works since 2003's Take Your Time. A beautifully recorded collection of tracks composed between 2004 and 2010, Detours belongs to a rarefied class of supremely listenable and beautiful piano albums that are not encumbered by any new-age shabbiness. It possesses the sort of timeless and elegant romanticism so unpretentious and accomplished it seems to at once effortlessly canonize itself.
The four pieces on Detours have their origins in disparate sources of inspiration - a longtime friend in San Francisco, a chance visit to a Quaker meetinghouse, a choreographed dance, philosophical intuition. Harmonic discourses begin at a pre-determined location and wind up at a totally unexpected place. Tyranny is a master pianist, able to follow mood and impulse to uncharted new territory.
"It's been eight years since an album of his new work, and about half of 'Detours,' his new album on Unseen Worlds, is prime stuff, including two major solo-piano pieces: '13 Detours' and 'George Fox Searches.' He does not stint on beautiful things - major arpeggios, soul-chord progressions, lines that flow and breathe - and his keyboard touch is rounded and gorgeous, a feeling you remember." (The New York Times)
"All week, 'George Fox Searches' has had me humming a Baptist hymn, replete with Tyranny's improvisatory embellishments. As recently as 2010 his former bandmate Iggy Pop was still stage diving into his early 60s, and the same time, "Blue" Gene Tyranny was taking his own leaps into the unknown, albeit with far less chance of bodily harm. Fifty years after a San Antonio teen skipped out on Julliard, a veteran continues to thumb his nose at convention, still seeking, still striving." (Dusted)
„Blue" Gene Tyranny, piano
"13 Detours" recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland CA, Feb 14 2005
"She Wore Read Shoes" recorded at Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland CA, Feb 20 2005
"George Fox Searches" and "Intuition" recorded at System II, Brooklyn NY, July 21 2010
Engineered by Philip Perkins (tracks 1-2)
Engineered by Tom Hamilton (tracks 3-4)
Mixed by Tom Hamilton
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Booklet for Detours