Von Kessels Requiem [Hybrid SACD]
Editorial Reviews
Arthur Payson
The sounds you will hear on this disk were created as if by spirits, speaking directly to our souls.
Tina Serpen
The Sound is… Beyond Space, Beyond Time, Beyond Music.
Album Description
Requiem is the first Modern Classical Symphony created for Wind Gong by composer/cymbalist Von Kessels. All the sounds are generated by the gongs; with most of them being recorded below the level of a breath. It was captured live, with no added effects, reverb or processing of any kind. The compositions consist of densely layered polyrhythms, melodic drones and harmonic overtones that sometimes defy description. The Hybrid Multichannel SACD format allows the listener to experience all the delicate nuances produced by these ancient instruments.
In the end, we ask ourselves a compelling question: "Where does this tone originate from and how do we know it?"
Von Kessels Requiem [Hybrid SACD]
Von Kessels Requiem, Music, Von Kessels
Average customer rating:
- Music In The Round #7 Stereophile September 2004
- International Solo Cymbal Competition Winner
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Von Kessels Requiem
Manufacturer: Second Engine Publishing
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0001EK2B2
Release Date: 2003-12-14 |
Album Description
Requiem is the first Modern Classical Symphony created for Wind Gong by composer/cymbalist Von Kessels. All the sounds are generated by the gongs; with most of them being recorded below the level of a breath. It was captured live, with no added effects, reverb or processing of any kind.
The compositions consist of densely layered polyrhythms, melodic drones and harmonic overtones that sometimes defy description. The Hybrid Multichannel SACD format allows the listener to experience all the delicate nuances produced by these ancient instruments.
In the end, we ask ourselves a compelling question: "Where does this tone originate from and how do we know it?"
Customer Reviews:
Music In The Round #7 Stereophile September 2004.......2006-03-20
With the SubTrap-stacked Servo-15 back in play, the bass was transformed. I thought I'd had it pretty good before, but now there was more bass detail, and so much deeper than I expected. In fact, I had to rebalance the subwoofer levels; pre-SubTrap, my ears and my SPL meter had been deceived by the encumbered resonances. With the true bass levels restored (and my wife outside in the garden), I unleashed my inner bass freak with Von Kessel's Requiem (SACD, VK3583). This disc has lots of spacey synthesizer sounds compounded with assorted percussion (especially gongs!), but track 2, aptly titled "From DC to 60Hz Ahmmm," was particularly powerful. The combo of Servo-15 and SubTrap filled the room with throbbing, tuneful bass that moved me, but not the floorboards or the furniture. Ah, yes-glorious bass without the boom!
Kalman Rubinson Stereophile Magazine
International Solo Cymbal Competition Winner.......2006-03-15
First Place: International Solo Cymbal Competition (ISCC)
Speaking of electronic music, this 17-movement work sounds to be in that genre, but is ostensibly created with large Chinese gongs by Juilliard composer /cymbalist Von Kessels. The low frequency information here is extremely strong and there is a warning about damaging speakers at too high a playback level. This is not the scratchy sort of sound from John Cage or Stockhausen rubbing a contact mic around a large gong, but rather smooth and slowly flowing sounds that are sort of like a low-frequency music of the spheres. It bears some resemblance to trance-like works such as Alvin Lucier's Music on a Long Wire. Some of the movements have titles such as Bardo, relating to The Tibetan Book of the Dead; another is just called Prayer 1584. The spatial element is extremely vital to this very minimalist and meditative sound sculpture.
John Sunier - Audiophile Audition
Track Listings:
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- Wondrous Love
- Amityville Dollhouse [Soundtrack]
- Angels Sang: An Inspirational Christmas [Enhanced]
- Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 2
- Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
- Arnold Schoenberg: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Op. 42 / Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 / Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 - Alfred Brendel / SWF Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden / Michael Gielen
- Arnold: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
- Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 57: Giuseppe Verdi~Falstaff
- Bagpipes from Hell
Track Listings
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Track Listings
Introducing Lobo/Of a Simple Man
Rachmaninov: Symphonies 1-3
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues
Into Something [Import]
Indie Anthems [Import]
Rewind
Perfect Alibi
Pilgrimage to Rome: Old-Roman Liturgical Chants
Slightly Skewed
No Resemblence Whatsoever
Playing the Angel
Nueva Generacion [Limited Edition] [Import]
Los #1 en Banda [Original recording remastered]
Waiting for Little Milton
Slidin'