Interestingly, within the liner notes Sanford states that the music for this piece was inspired by Pierre Boulez’ Repons and Olivier Messiaen’s St, Francis of Assisi, and it sounds it. Little if any of the particular music of this 12-minute piece derives from black music; it uses atonality and microtonalism to precise his angst, though there are moments of lyrical music right here and there which act as a brief foil to the basically microtonal structure of the work. Eric Nathan (b. 1983) is an American composer who, like most residing composers nowadays, apparently had no birthplace and no upbringing. He just sprang full-blown on the world of music, according to his “bio” (why don’t they only be honest and call them “puff blurbs”?).
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