Tracklisting:
Choreosonic Music Of The New Dance Theatre Of Alwin Nikolais (Hanover #HM 5005, 1959)
1-01. Eruptions And Evolvements (3:12)
1-02. Lythic (3:24)
1-03. Illusional Frieze (3:24)
1-04. Shivaree (1:57)
1-05. Aeolus (1:53)
1-06. Paraphrenalia (2:52)
1-07. Lyre (4:15)
1-08. Prismatic Forest (2:14)
1-09. Fixation (0:44)
1-10. Glymistry (3:27)
1-11. Fetish (2:30)
Bonus Material
1-12. TENSILE INVOLVEMENT (4:48) 1953
1-13. NOUMENON (6:00) 1953
1-14. Shadow Opening from TOTEM (5:26) 1960
1-15. Hoop from TOTEM (4:07) 1960
1-16. Jump Dance from TOTEM (3:11) 1960
1-17. Celebrants from TOTEM (2:49) 1960
1-18. Effigy from TOTEM (2:37) 1960
1-19. Reliquary from TOTEM (3:27) 1960
1-20. Finale from TOTEM (4:58) 1960/1983
2-01. Mantis from IMAGO (6:13) 1963
2-02. Rooftops from IMAGO (4:55) 1963
2-03. Boulevard from IMAGO (5:43) 1963
2-04. Kites from IMAGO (4:11) 1963
2-05. Suite from IMAGO (11:10) 1963
2-06. Chrysalis from IMAGO (3:37) 1963
2-07. Artisan from IMAGO (3:47) 1963
2-08. Clique from IMAGO (2:14) 1963
2-09. SANCTUM (7:33) 1964
2-10. Cave from TENT (4:56) 1968
2-11. Garden from TENT (5:33) 1968
2-12. Descent to Hell from TENT (5:15) 1968
3-01. Opening Dance from GALLERY (3:07) 1978
3-02. First Dance from GALLERY (7:13) 1978
3-03. Triple Trio from GALLERY (5:18) 1978/1964
3-04. Masks and Clowns from GALLERY (4:29) 1978
3-05. Opening Dance from MECHANICAL ORGAN (3:34) 1980
3-06. Men’s Duet from MECHANICAL ORGAN (3:06) 1980
3-07. Men’s Quintet from MECHANICAL ORGAN (5:14) 1980
3-08. Duet from MECHANICAL ORGAN (3:32) 1980
3-09. Finale from MECHANICAL ORGAN (5:14) 1980
3-10. POND (8:05) 1982
3-11. Clothes from KALEIDOSCOPE (6:39) 1985
3-12. CRUCIBLE (10:42) 1985
[CP 000.36 CD] Alwin Nikolais; Choreosonic Music of the New Dance Theater of Alwin Nikolais +++
This was, initially, the 36th in the "Proto Creel Pone" series, offering but a glimpse of the storied American Choreographer & Composer Alwin Nikolais' breadth of operation via his lone era-appropriate issue (The 1959 Hanover LP issue of "Choreosonic Music of the New Dance Theater of Alwin Nikolais") but now, here, augmented significantly by the inclusion of an additional 2.5 discsworth of his prime-era compositions made in the interim on, largely, the first Moog Modular System off of the (commercial; Nikolais was, serendipitously, Moog's first 900-series customer after using the funds from a Guggenheim Fellowship to purchase a custom system directly from Bob in person at the AES Convention in New York City in 1964) line spanning the mid-60s to mid-80s.
Notorious for selectively updating & revising the musical scores for his dance pieces (despite the carefully-laid chronology, ordered by choreography/composition herein, you'll notice a variance from prepared-piano & tape collages, early analogue synthesis, then digital-FM timbres applied somewhat anachronistically) we can hear a breadth of quite transgressive approaches to experimental, movement-augmented sound correlating to Nikolais' pieces "Tensile Involement" (1953), "Noumenon" (1953), "Totem" (1960), "Imago" (1963), "Sanctum" (1964), "Tent" (1968), "Gallery" (1978), "Mechanical Organ" (1980), "Pond" (1982), "Kaleidoscope" (1985), & "Crucible" (1985), the scores of which have never been issued or compiled!
This Creel Pone edition lays out the detail for the original Hanover issue on the outside, then the additional dance-piece-scores on the inside, of a detail-strewn gatefold 6-panel glossy booklet, with the three (carefully labeled, like clockwork) discs inside. This has been a mammoth project, getting everything annotated & restored from the archival sources, but easily one of the most consistently rewarding titles in the entire C.P. canon!