![]() ![]() ![]() He is best known as the father of modern Asian electronica music. Lam acted fundamentally like an impressionist painter, but one who is in love with black and white still life photography, the ultimate minimalist artist, who cares more for the minuscule images and events than for the whole picture. Talvin Singh is an accomplished Tabla player, electronic musician, music theorist, record producer, visual practitioner and DJ. >difficult to acquire(?) scaruffi 8, his take: The double-disc Heidelberg Concerts (Mutable, 2011) contains Run, a stream of consciousness for pipa the three-lieder set Nachtgesange for soprano, saxophone, trombone, koto and percussion, halfway between expressionist theater and Chinese opera the lied Lotostraume for tenor and harp Omi Hakkei (2000), a subdued and oneiric flux of delicate timbres in the first movement, a nostalgic melody in the second, a dissonant cartoon soundtrack in the third, and then progressively more abstract and detached Lu for percussion, one of her most rarefied pieces, a naked soundscape visited by sporadic tones, but mostly silent the six-movement Phenomena (1998) for piano, the brooding and resigned violin soliloquy of Bittersweet Music 2, Like Water for piano, violin/viola and percussion, a poem of hesitation, uncertainty and unexpected randomness, another slow and absent-minded journey through a desolate, warped and mostly silent soundscape. ![]()
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