HENRY FLYNT / ヘンリー・フリント / NEW AMERICAN ETHNIC MUSIC VOLUME 1: YOU AR / CD

ヘンリー・フリント “New American Ethnic Music” の第1章がリストック!

ヘンリー・フリント・アーカイヴスの第1弾にして大人気のドローン作品。嫌になっちゃうくらい永遠と続くドローンがCD2枚分!!! エレクトロニクスにより増幅されたヴァイオリンが、ウネウネと蛇行を繰り返す恍惚のドローンにただただビックリ。サイケデリック...、っーか、やがて廃人間違いなしと断言。

RESTOCKED, ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2001. THE CLASSIC DOUBLE CD RELEASE THAT REALLY RENEWED THE INTEREST IN HENRY'S FLYNT'S IDIOSYNCRATIC MUSIC (LINKED TO CONCEPTUAL ART AND MINIMALISM) -- AT LEAST 10 OTHER CDS HAVE FOLLOWED SINCE THE RELEASE OF THIS ONE. IT IS LISTED AS #6 ON ALAN LICHTS' "MINIMAL TOP TEN" LIST, WHICH SAYS A LOT. FIRST VOLUME IN THE SERIES SUBTITLED: NEW AMERICAN ETHNIC MUSIC. "RECORDED IN '80 AND '81, TWO MIND-BLOWING DISKS DELIVERING FLOWING, TRANCE-INDUCING VIOLIN SOLOS OF EXTREME BEAUTY AND SERIOUSNESS. IN THESE INCREDIBLE ELECTRONIC HILLBILLY MUSIC VIOLIN PERFORMANCES, AN EXALTED SYNTHESIS OF AMERICAN ETHNIC MUSIC, RAGA-LIKE LYRICAL VIRTUOSITY, AND A DEEP SENSIBILITY TAKES PLACE--A NOD TO HUMAN CULTURE FROM THE GREAT NIHILIST PHILOSOPHER AND FATHER OF CONCEPT ART. SHOULD BE COMPLETELY WORLD-FAMOUS, BUT ONLY NOW IS THIS MUSIC BEGINNING TO THE GET THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES.
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???????BEFORE THE PUBLICATION OF HIS MUSIC, FLYNT WAS MOST OFTEN KNOWN AS AN (OFTEN DISTORTED) FOOTNOTE IN ART HISTORY, AS THE MAN WHO INVENTED 'CONCEPT ART,' FLYNT'S NAME IN THE EARLY SIXTIES FOR HIS FORMAL ATTACKS ON LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICS, OFTEN PRESENTED IN ART GALLERIES. FLYNT WAS INITIALLY (1962) A COMPOSER OF THE POST-CAGE SCHOOL WHO QUICKLY TURNED COMPLETELY AGAINST MODERNIST MUSIC AND CREATED HIS OWN FLYNT GENRES, PRIMARILY THROUGH RADICALIZING SOUTHERN MUSICAL FORMS LIKE BLUEGRASS, COUNTRY, AND COUNTRY BLUES-ELEVATING THEM TO AN ENCHANTED LEVEL, MUCH AS COLTRANE DID WITH THE JAZZ OF HIS TIME. HIS MUSIC IS A PARALLEL STREAM TO HIS EXTREMELY DISTINCT AND RADICAL PHILOSOPHY (HIS PRIMARY WORK IS AS A RADICAL INTELLECTUAL, WITH VISIONARY, WIDE-RANGING WORK THAT IS HIGHLY INTELLECTUALLY DEMANDING). MORE ABOUT FLYNT AND HIS PHILOSOPHY CAN BE FOUND AT HIS WEB SITE, HTTP://WWW.HENRYFLYNT.ORG.
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???????ONE NOTE ABOUT FLYNT, LEST UNHELPFUL INACCURACIES CONTINUE. HE HAS BEEN MISTAKENLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE FLUXUS ART MOVEMENT, OF WHICH HE WAS NEVER A MEMBER, AND EVEN HAS BEEN CLAIMED AS A SORT OF TROPHY BY FLUXUS MEMBERS. FLYNT WAS NEVER A SUPPORTER OF FLUXUS, IN FACT HE WAS A FRIEND OF FLUXUS FOUNDER GEORGE MACIUNIS WHO PUBLISHED A FEW OF HIS EARLY WORKS, AND IN A (VERY DISTORTED WAY) HE EXERTED A SMALL INFLUENCE ON THE MOVEMENT (HIS WIDE-RANGING POLITICAL CRITIQUES OF 'EUROPEAN SERIOUS MUSIC' AND OF ART ITSELF-INCLUDING FLUXUS-CAUSED A SMALL RIFT IN THE MOVEMENT). CLASSIFYING FLYNT AS FLUXUS IS TOTALLY UNHELPFUL IN UNDERSTANDING HIS HIGHLY SINGULAR WORK, WHICH IS SIMULTANEOUSLY FAR MORE INTELLECTUALLY RADICAL & SERIOUS THAN THE FLUXUS POST-DADA SHENANIGANS, AND ALSO EXPRESSES A GRITTY & VIRTUOSI MUSICAL SENSIBILITY WHICH COULDN'T BE FARTHER FROM 'FLUXUS MUSIC.' THE ONLY REASON THIS ERROR HAS MADE IT INTO PRINT IS THE LAZINESS OF SOME HISTORIANS WHO HAVE TROUBLE PLACING SUCH A SINGULAR LONE WOLF FIGURE IN THE STREAM OF CONFORMIST ART CULTURE."