Sono Luminus announces the August 25, 2017 worldwide release of Dark Queen Mantra, a new recording from Del Sol String Quartet featuring new music by Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio. The album includes Terry Riley’s Dark Queen Mantra (2015) written for Del Sol and Terry Riley’s son, guitarist Gyan Riley; Mas Lugares (su Madrigali di Monteverdi) by Stefano Scodanibbio (2003); and Terry Riley’s The Wheel & Mythic Birds Waltz from 1983.
Dark Queen Mantra begins brightly with “Vizcaino,” named for the hotel in Algeciras where Terry first stayed on arrival in Spain. The distinctively Spanish opening motive plays with shifting groupings and irregular accents. Terry started writing the second movement with Francisco Goya’s paintings in mind. Then the music began to take flight and grew fast and fluttery —“Goya with Wings” he called it. The final movement explores a heavier and more insistent groove. As Terry says, “it gets dark.”
Dark Queen Mantra begins brightly with “Vizcaino,” named for the hotel in Algeciras where Terry first stayed on arrival in Spain. The distinctively Spanish opening motive plays with shifting groupings and irregular accents. Terry started writing the second movement with Francisco Goya’s paintings in mind. Then the music began to take flight and grew fast and fluttery —“Goya with Wings” he called it. The final movement explores a heavier and more insistent groove. As Terry says, “it gets dark.”
Stefano Scodanibbio’s Mas Lugares (su Madrigali di Monteverdi) refracts Monteverdi through the lens of bassist/composer Scodanibbio’s prodigious timbral imagination. The piece is dedicated to Luciano Berio, another master of transcription and re-invention of music of the past.
In his The Wheel & Mythic Birds Waltz, Terry Riley views an Indian tabla rhythm through a kaleidoscope of possibilities, gently shifting the meter to set it dancing in new ways. Sometimes the music surges forward with sweeping melodies, sometimes it lingers looping in eddies. In a pre-concert talk with Del Sol Quartet in Camptonville, California, Riley revealed that the birds he imagined in the piece came from Anagarika Govinda’s account of Tibetan Buddhism, The Way of the White Clouds. He had been reading the book and wanted to give the birds a dance to do. (Pledge Music)
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