Gavin Bryars
Three Viennese Dancers
ECM NEW SERIES (Germany) 1986
ECM 1323 (LP) w/insert.
sleeve : VG+(SPSE: 7cm crack on bottom, wear on corner, dirts.)
media : VG+/VG+(some slightly surface noises and light click noises caused by slightly wear and hairlines.)
An album released in 1986 by the British composer and double bass player Gavin Bryars from the ECM New Series, the contemporary music division of ECM. Bryars, who brought the close relationship between ambient and contemporary music to public recognition with a split album with John White released on the Obscure label led by Brian Eno in 1978, presents this concept album. It features the Arditti String Quartet, Pascal Pongy, and Charles Fullbrook. The album is themed around three dancers who happened to be staying in Vienna one night in 1906. The A1 track expresses deep spirituality with the overtones of a gong resonating throughout the soundscape, while the B1 track appeals to the subconscious with the overlapping overtones of various metal percussion instruments and the gentle echoes of a French horn, evoking a sense of longing. This album is a stunning piece of ambient contemporary music that immerses the listener in a three-dimensional acoustic space. Highly recommended.
A1: Prologue
B1: First Viennese Dance