Album Notes

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).