Puzzle Wood Natasha Barrett

- Composer(s): Natasha Barrett
- Kulturrådet
… the most jaw-droppingly fabulous electronic music I’ve ever heard. — 5:4, UK
- Aurora
- ACD 5082 / 2017
- UPC/EAN 7044581350829
- Total duration: 65:21
- 1Little Animals (1997), 13:09fixed medium
- 2Earth Haze (1995), 13:32Arr. Natasha Barrett, 2016-17fixed mediumOriginal work: Earth Haze
- 3Racing Unseen: Racing Wide, Racing Inside (1996), 19:50Arr. Natasha Barrett, 2016-17fixed mediumOriginal work: Racing Unseen
- 4Animalcules (2010), 5:13fixed medium
- 5Puzzle Wood (1994), 13:34Arr. Natasha Barrett, 2016-17fixed mediumOriginal work: Puzzle Wood

Puzzle Wood
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CDACD 5082CAD 25.00US+3.00+4.00Temporarily out of stock
Notices
This album is dedicated to…
This album is dedicated to my granny, Edna Maude Cooke, who died aged 101, September 2016.
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In the press
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Simon Cummings, 5:4, December 31, 2017… the most jaw-droppingly fabulous electronic music I’ve ever heard.
Best Albums of 2017 (Part 2)
2. Natasha Barrett — Puzzle Wood
Puzzle Wood is a revelation. Containing five works, four of which date from the mid-1990s, the revelatory aspects are three-fold: first, how accomplished Natasha Barrett was at this early stage in her career; second, how consistent these pieces are (aesthetically speaking) with her subsequent work; and third, how distinct and different they are from the majority of British electronic and acousmatic music being composed around that time, sounding neither remotely dated, nor in thrall to or at the mercy of the technology being used to create them. Rare indeed! And in each and every piece, Barrett’s unique, unpredictable yet organic approach to both the moment-by-moment handling of sounds as well as to their structural arrangement and distribution makes for the most vividly immersive experience. There’s something of an ambient sensibility in the way sound objects gradually acquire or deplete mass and momentum, drifting in space and meeting and melding under their own gravitational forces (particularly in 1997’s Little Animals). But equally these works exhibit a remarkable ‘demonstrative range’, from infinitesimal, quasi-static suspensions to muscular, aggressive effusions. And quite apart from any of this, they all sound completely gorgeous. Only superlatives are adequate in situations like this: this is simply some of the most jaw-droppingly fabulous electronic music I’ve ever heard.
Blog
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Natasha Barrett’s most recent Puzzle Wood is finalist in the Norwegian awards Spellemannprisen in the contemporary music category.…
Friday, January 12, 2018 / General