Bart Hopkin, Instrumentarium Hopkinis - 49m 36s

Tracks & Durations

1. Opening	0:32
2. Libido, Destrutu & Darlene	2:23
3. Branching	1:35
4. Chewing Music	2:28
5. Embert, Rumel & Frumentus	2:20
6. It Starts to Rain	2:52
7. Balloon Waltz Tumbles Forth	2:31
8. Marble Jars	0:58
9. The Study of Tiny Pebbles	2:35
10. Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego	3:10
11. Gong with the Wind	1:59
12. Cat's Face	2:37
13. Cheshire Grin	3:27
14. Cookery Harp and Ostrich Egg	2:11
15. Ping	2:27
16. Ridges	3:19
17. Gourd Bug	1:36
18. Baby Please Don't Go	2:31
19. Old Iron	1:04
20. What a Shame	1:51
21. Use Me	3:32
22. Coda	1:25

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Review

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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