A Delay Is Better

Track Listings
1. Bone Music    
2. Badagada    
3. Number 3    
4. Pop Titles ‘You’    
5. In Tymes of Olde    
6. The MUNI Section    
7. NEMIZ    
8. Geekspeak    
9. Questions    
10. 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)    
11. Feral    
12. Obsession, Addiction, and the Aristotelian Curve    

Editorial Reviews
The Wire
"Sheer genius...The effects are stunning...Essential."

Village Voice
"Her new CD...is a lovely listen."

Album Description
This is the first CD devoted exclusively to works by the "funny, inventive, and talented" (Village Voice) composer/performer Pamela Z. The CD, which offers some of her most widely enjoyed signature pieces, is "an impressive survey of Z's imaginative compositions," states Pauline Oliveros.

The San Francisco Chronicle enthusiastically notes that "Z creates lustrous sonic landscapes." The essence of Z's mesmerizing music is a skillful blending of her lovely voice with refined electronic manipulations. Oliveros finds that "this CD beguiles us with a rich introduction to a fine vocalist/composer who adeptly embraces technology" and who "invigoratingly explores" a wide variety of materials.

Some of the CD's dozen pieces draw on everyday sounds. For example, the percussion loops in Bone Music are built up from the performer pounding an empty five-gallon water bottle, while the pieces The MUNI Section and NEMIZ use sampled San Francisco street sounds. The witty Geekspeak manipulates recordings of computer engineers providing us with the definitive word on the differences between nerds and geeks.

Other pieces use found text, such as Pop Titles 'You' (based on titles of popular songs), while some pieces use only Z's voice, such as Badagada and Number 3.

Z has toured extensively around the world, and she has composed commissioned works for such new music ensembles as the Bang on a Can All Stars, the California E.A.R. Unit, and St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra.

A Delay Is Better

A Delay Is Better, Music, Pamela Z, Classical, Classical Artists, Electronic & Computer
The Shapenote Album
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • American Music of Hope and Glory
  • Unbridled spiritual energy
 The Shapenote Album
John P. Reese , Stephen Jenks , C. Dingley , William Billings , Seaborn McDaniel Denson , Jeremiah Ingalls , Lucius Chapin , Paine Denson , Nehemiah Shumway , The Tudor Choir , and Doug Fullington
Manufacturer: Loft Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NHNL
Release Date: 2001-09-04

Tracks:

  1. Montgomery
  2. Windham
  3. Sweet Prospect
  4. China
  5. Soar Away
  6. The Better Land
  7. Weeping Mary
  8. White
  9. Mortality
  10. Eternal Day
  11. Heavenly Union
  12. Expression
  13. Evening Shade
  14. Kedron
  15. Love The Lord
  16. Condescension
  17. All Is Well
  18. Africa
  19. Traveling On
  20. Happy Land
  21. New Jerusalem
  22. Primrose
  23. Hallelujah
  24. Peace And Joy
  25. Schenectady

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars American Music of Hope and Glory.......2007-04-09

Although I have known about Sacred Harp Music for many years, this album utterly overwhelmed me in its power, beauty and expression of pure American strength and faithful surety. I grew up in the churches of Christ, one of the few American denominations that uses only a capella four-part harmony vocal music in their worship services. Shape notes were known to me since I was able to understand a musical staff, and we used shape notes for each note on the scale (a few more than The Sacred Harp Tradition). Alas, over time, the immense power and beauty of true Sacred Harp music was "homogenized" into congregational singing that remains quite beautiful, but no longer has the vigor of The Sacred Harp tradition. (The churches of Christ still, to this day, occasionally have "Sings" - an all afternoon singing festival with food and fellowship, as do Sacred Harp "Singing Classes" today). This album above all speaks - rather SINGS to the immense faith of Frontier America, and the absolutely majesterial beauty of music well-sung from the human heart, which is, of course, The "Sacred Harp". To any who want to experience a new (and very old) musical tradition, this recording will be one that you will never forget. All choral music singers and admirers should own this marvelous album. (Having a copy of the "1991 Sacred Harp Hymnal" in hand will make your enjoyment all the better!)

5 out of 5 stars Unbridled spiritual energy.......2005-01-01

Anyone who saw "Cold Mountain" and was struck by the vitality and energy of the hymn singing in that one brief scene in church will be immediately impressed with this stunning album. The album's only flaw is that, unfortunately, it does not include that hymn that was in "Cold Mountain" (it is titled "I'm Going Home").

Otherwise, it is pure joy to listen to. The singing is full of that same raw passion that makes it sound so primitive. I've heard other albums where the sound is polished, concert-hall like, and as a result very dead. This is not that way; it moves and stirs as good spiritual music ought to.

This is a new field of music for me, even though I've sung in church choirs for years and listened to all kinds of classical music. Hearing this album makes me want to go find the sheet music and start singing it myself, it is so infectious.
A Delay Is Better
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    		A Delay Is Better
    Pamela Z
    Manufacturer: Starkland
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0002UUF5I
    Release Date: 2004-08-13

    Tracks:

    1. Bone Music
    2. Badagada
    3. Number 3
    4. Pop Titles You
    5. In Tymes of Olde
    6. The MUNI Section
    7. NEMIZ
    8. Geekspeak
    9. Questions
    10. 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
    11. Feral
    12. Obsession, Addiction, and the Aristotelian Curve

    Album Description

    This is the first CD devoted exclusively to works by the "funny, inventive, and talented" (Village Voice) composer/performer Pamela Z. The CD, which offers some of her most widely enjoyed signature pieces, is "an impressive survey of Z's imaginative compositions," states Pauline Oliveros.

    The San Francisco Chronicle enthusiastically notes that "Z creates lustrous sonic landscapes." The essence of Z's mesmerizing music is a skillful blending of her lovely voice with refined electronic manipulations. Oliveros finds that "this CD beguiles us with a rich introduction to a fine vocalist/composer who adeptly embraces technology" and who "invigoratingly explores" a wide variety of materials.

    Some of the CD's dozen pieces draw on everyday sounds. For example, the percussion loops in Bone Music are built up from the performer pounding an empty five-gallon water bottle, while the pieces The MUNI Section and NEMIZ use sampled San Francisco street sounds. The witty Geekspeak manipulates recordings of computer engineers providing us with the definitive word on the differences between nerds and geeks.

    Other pieces use found text, such as Pop Titles 'You' (based on titles of popular songs), while some pieces use only Z's voice, such as Badagada and Number 3.

    Z has toured extensively around the world, and she has composed commissioned works for such new music ensembles as the Bang on a Can All Stars, the California E.A.R. Unit, and St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra.

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