Peter Garland: 3 Dawns & Bush Radio Calling Ron Squibbs

• Peter Garland (b. 1953): 3 Dawns:
• 1 Garland: 3 Dawns: No. 1, — 02:49
• 2 Garland: 3 Dawns: No. 2, — 12:16
• 3 Garland: 3 Dawns: No. 3, — 02:06
• Bush Radio Calling:
• 4 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: I. Ringatu (Variations on a Chord by Dane Rudhyar) 05:42
• 5 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: II. Visions of el Niño Doctor 02:38
• 6 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: III. Visions of el Niño Cieguito 02:39
• 7 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: IV. La Princesa (Wanganui Waltz) 03:25
• 8 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: V. The Bellbird’s Song 03:03
• 9 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: VI. Hiruharama 06:20
• 10 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: VII. Mrs. Shadrock (Princesa Reprise) 02:39
• 11 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: VIII. The Wedding (The Bride Shoots the Bachelor, Even) 02:25
• 12 Garland: Bush Radio Calling: IX. Bush Radio Calling - The Bridge to Nowhere 07:19
• Total Runtime 53:21

Info for Peter Garland: 3 Dawns & Bush Radio Calling

Two exuberant, beautiful solo piano pieces—the three-movement Three Dawns (1981–82), based on poems by Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo, and the 10-movement Bush Radio Calling (1992), written for the music-theater work Just Them Walking, by New Zealand’s avant-garde theater company Red Mole.

Both works are elegantly and spiritedly performed by Ron Squibbs, a pianist who has also recorded music by Dane Rudhyar and Joji Yuasa.

Peter Garland is a composer, world traveler, musicologist, writer, and former publisher whose music is always informed by his well-traveled ear and strong sense of personal vision. He is a long-time associate of Cold Blue—his music has appeared on seven of the label’s previous CDs.

“Garland’s music seems to be about the sheer expressive power of sound itself…. I feel he is one of our true originals.” (Robert Carl, Fanfare magazine)

“Radical consonance’ has been used to describe Garland’s music…an apt choice of words.” (Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare magazine)

“[Garland] is an avatar of an experimental American tradition … a composer of mesmerizing music; and in many ways, the musical conscience of my generation.” (Kyle Gann, Chamber Music magazine)

Ron Squibbs, piano

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