Cover Art, Une Baigneuse avec le ballon solaire, pastel on Arches, ll"x15", 1987 by E.J. Gold

In the beginning was...the drum!

The Hi-Tech Shaman invokes his Golden Age in ritual, as clapping and footstamping rhythms give rise to percussion on sticks, rattles, re-kinto, congas, drum kit, tambourine, cymbals, brass bells.

In the studio ceremony, guitar, vibes and keyboard pick up the driving and mesmerizing formulas in sound.

This brand of magic lulls the rational mind, stills the body with sonic acupuncture, stirs the heart into unaccustomed co-operation.

If "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", then this recording of school music is a case of "choreography recapitulates historiography," allowing for a little macro-dimensional two-step by E.J. Gold

-- Y.T.

Songs include:

1. Golden Age

2. Bronze Age

3. Iron Age

4. Stone Age

5. Samson Agonistes

6. Pythagorean Concept

7. Laocoon

8. Mesopotamia

9. Tigris Euphrates

10. Tamil Tribesman

11. Gambia Line

12. Polyrhythm #1

13. Polyrhythm #2

14. Polyrhythm #3

15. Polyrhythm #4

16. Polyrhythm #5

17. Polyrhythm #6

18. Polyrhythm #7

© 1998 Cloister Recordings
All original compositions by E.J. Gold
All compositions © 1989 by Gateways.
All rights reserved.
Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.
Produced by E.J. Gold
Engineered by Claude Needham
Recorded in Gateways Studios, Nevada City, CA
Recording artists:
All instruments by E.J. Gold
Jazz drum kit by Bob Bachtold
Additional percussion by E.J. Gold
Mastered for CD by Oz Fritz
Cover art: Une baigneuse avec le ballon solaire, E.J. Gold, pastel on Arches, 11"x15", ©1987 hei
CD-M102
$16.97

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