Garland Hirschi's Cows, by Phillip Bimstein

Garland Hirschi's Cows

by Phillip Bimstein

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The complete original CD with comments from the composer and an Introduction by John Schaefer.

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1.	Garland Hirschi's Cows: A Little Bit About My Cows 02:46	buy track
2.	Garland Hirschi's Cows: Pasturale 04:03	buy track
3.	Garland Hirschi's Cows: Moovement 05:12	buy track
4.	The Louie Louie Variations 08:53	buy track
5.	Dark Winds Rising: The Last Jake 03:29	buy track
6.	Dark Winds Rising: Walking Barefooted 03:24	buy track
7.	Dark Winds Rising: With the Earth 03:18	buy track
8.	Dark Winds Rising: Among All People 03:16	buy track
9.	The Door 10:29	buy track
10.	Vox=Dominum 12:22	buy track

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Offering five "alternative classical" works, this premiere Phillip Bimstein CD has been called "the ear-opening CD of 1997" in Stereophile.

The delightful Garland Hirschi's Cows describes a Utah farmer, his cows, and why they moo. Radio airplay of the work has generated hundreds of calls (especially after being heard on NPR's All Things Considered).

Dark Winds Rising, for string quartet and tape, presents the Kaibab Paiute tribe's successful fight against the installation of a toxic waste incinerator on their native land. Employing a technique he calls "voice organics," Bimstein uses sampled speech to develop rhythmic patterns, melodies, and sound effects such as mesa winds, industrial ratchets, a snake pit, and bird calls.

In The Door, Bimstein uses samples of his creaking studio door to create some funky brass instruments, a pulsating rhythm section, fragments of a merry-go-round's music, and a mournful seal.

The Louie Louie Variations is a contemplative fantasy that deconstructs a classic rock chord progression, while the haunting Vox=Dominum, the most mysterious piece on the CD, deconstructs a variety of Persian sounds.

Bimstein resides in Springdale, Utah, where he served two terms as mayor, prompting Outside magazine to call him "America's only all-natural politician composer." His "alternative classical" music combines acoustic instruments with found sounds and voices to paint portraits and tell stories. Bimstein's music has been performed at Lincoln Center, Bang on a Can, and London's Royal Opera House. In addition to his studies of theory, composition, and orchestration at the Chicago Conservatory and UCLA, Bimstein led the new wave band Phil 'n' the Blanks, whose albums and videos were college radio and MTV hits.

Praise for this CD:

Stereophile:
"4/5 Stars: Outstanding in his field... [Bimstein] has used digital sampling technology to tell wry and moving stories, and to elevate the mundane to the level of high art... brilliantly original... Here is a talent to watch."

Alternative Press:
"4/4 Stars: Memorable and entertaining."

Wired:
"Quirky and thoroughly engaging."

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released December 17, 1996

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Phillip Bimstein Salt Lake City, Utah

John Adams: “Bimstein's compositions make me feel like I've taken a slow drive through a western landscape, meeting along the way everyone from Georgia O'Keeffe to Tony Hillerman, Mark Twain, Neal Cassady, Raymond Scott, Kurt Weill, Aphex Twin, and some of those grizzled geezers that populate the novels of Annie Proulx.” ... more

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