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| MP3.com CD: Seth Josel : You Owe Me -  buy it!
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| MP3.com CD: Seth Josel : You Owe Me - buy it!
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| James Tenney‘s „Water on the Mountain...Fire in heaven“ is electric guitar music. It is even scored for what might seem like the kind of heavy-metal assault force - six queerly-tuned electric guitars - for which tonal and timbral subtlety is often quite beside the point. Yet this remarkable score inhabits its own unique and fastidious sonic world and sounds like no other music that we know. Written in 1985, the work is a notable demonstration of that new way of harmonic thinking, where harmony is used not for dogged forward motion but to affect timbral perception. Tenney‘s is structurally arresting music as well, with the piece coming into being as it progresses through its three parts. Conceived as two independent polyphonic layers, its first part consists of only the top staff of each guitar part; the second part is the bottom staff, and the third part combines the two. This results in the epiphanic satisfaction that pianists - who learn music first for one hand, then for the other - know so well, namely the delayed gratification of not discovering the whole until the individual staves are known. | MP3.com CD: Seth Josel : You Owe Me - buy it!
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