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| Instrumentarium Hopkinis | 
 enlarge | Creator: Bart Hopkin
Label: Experimental Musical Instruments
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 258930
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 656613895825
EAN: 0656613895825
ASIN: B00006IJNW
Release Date: June 1, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Opening | | • | Libido, Destruto & Darlene | | • | Branching | | • | Chewing Music | | • | Embert, Rumel & Frumentus | | • | It Starts to Rain | | • | Balloon Waltz Tumbles Forth | | • | Marble Jars | | • | The Study of Tiny Pebbles | | • | Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego | | • | Gong with the Wind | | • | Cats Face | | • | Cheshire Grin | | • | Cookery Harp and Ostrich Egg | | • | Ping | | • | Ridges | | • | Gourd Bug | | • | Baby Please Dont Go | | • | Old Iron | | • | What a Shame | | • | Use Me | | • | Coda |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
This CD is full of outrageously inventive new musical instruments. The music ranges from raunchy to decorous and from crazy-happy to contemplative. A huge number of instruments appear -- far too many to list here, but they're all described in 16 pages of liner notes. They include the infamous Savart's wheel, the bird-like branching corrugaphone, the worrisome scraper flutes, the magical Polly, the melancholical musical siren, the wobbly bentwood chalumeau, the glittering disorderly tumbling forth, and many, many more … all very different from one another, and representing every imaginable class of noise-maker. That includes winds, strings, idiophones and uncategorizables. Most of the pieces are ensemble pieces -- comings together of diverse instruments, with new sounds jumping in at every turn. Tom Waits says: "Bart Hopkin -- inventor, musicologist -- puts things in your ear that your mama told you not to. "Instrumentarium Hopkinis" is a record for the brave, challenging listener and should inspire you to strum your barbecue grill or throw a piano off a building.
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| Customer Reviews:
Very good. September 6, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lots of fantastic sounds on here....Listen to the album first without reading the liner notes, try to figure out what you are hearing, and look forward to the day when parents are forcing their small children to take siren lessons along with piano or violin.
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