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Paul Dresher : Slow Fire
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"Hyper-kinetic, minimalist funk, mysterious atmospheres, gamelan cycles, and some burning electric guitar." (CD Review)
Genre: Avant Garde: Modern Composition
Release Date: 1992
Slow Fire Record Label: MinMax Music
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Sleeping With The Light On 6:09 Album Only
Duck Blind 6:33 Album Only
Dads Letter 4:39 Album Only
The Magazine Dream 11:05 Album Only
Swimming 6:10 Album Only
The Sunday Paper 4:18 Album Only
Match Stick Empire 5:12 Album Only
Riding Shotgun 5:18 Album Only
Without a Word 2:51 Album Only
Eyes Open 4:56 Album Only
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In the Paul Dresher Ensemble's "electric opera" Slow Fire with Rinde Eckert, two of America's most dynamic forces in contemporary performance collaborate to create a truly original musical experience that has been described as "tour de force of intellectual and emotional artistry... a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle). A haunting musical monodrama about a paranoid-delusional man and his search for values in a rapidly changing world, Slow Fire blends the forms of opera, rock, and post-minimalist electronic music to create a sound that defies glib categorization, and pushes the boundaries of music theatre to a new and breathtaking breakthrough. Slow Fire "makes much celebrated post-modern music theatre seem not just impressionistic, but escapist by comparison" (Village Voice).

Slow Fire, which has played to tens of thousands of enthusiastic viewers across the country, is "music/theatre that firmly places Dresher in the forefront of the new breed of American composers" (San Francisco Examiner).

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