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Alvin Curran
Maritime Rites

Album US 2004 on New World Records label
Spoken Word and Classical (Field Recording, Contemporary, Experimental)

Comes with a 19 pages booklet. Maritime rites is a series of ten environmental concerts for radio composed by Alvin Curran. This series features the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as a musical source in collaboration with improvised musical performances by ten distinguished artists in the American new-music scene: John Cage, Joseph Celli, Clark Coolidge, Jon Gibson, Malcolm Goldstein, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Leo Smith and Alvin Curran. The programs use specifically recorded natural sounds as musical counterpoint to the soloists, whose improvisations are freely restructured and mixed by Curran. Featured here are the foghorns of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and New Brunswick, Canada. Also included are maritime bells, gongs, whistles, and regional bird and animal life. Comments from lighthouse keepers, Coast Guard personnel, and other local people are woven impressionistically throughout. There are nine eleven-minute programs, featuring a specific artist as soloist. The recordings of the Eastern Seaboard were done in 1984. Maritime Rites was originally produced in 1985.

Musicians

	Alvin Curran p, *1938 US composed by, mixed by, liner notes, recorded by, producer, engineer, album by, voice
	Wadada Leo Smith tr, *1941 US trumpet, horn, seal horn
	Pauline Oliveros acc, *1932 US accordion
	Steve Lacy ss, 1934-2004 US soprano saxophone
	Clark Coolidge dr, *1939 US voice
	Joseph Celli eh, ob, *1944 US oboe, saxophone, english horn, performer, mukha veena
	Jon Gibson fl, ss, *1940 US soprano saxophone
	Malcolm Goldstein vn, *1936 US violin
	George Lewis tb, *1952 US trombone
	John Cage voc, 1912-1992 US voice

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