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LPWillie and Leon "One For The Road"
Allan Holdsworth Sand
Trios for Deep Voices, a five-movement work scored for the unusual ensemble of three double basses, is a sort of musical evocation—sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly—of the sounds and life that composer Roberts experienced in the jungles of the Star Mountains region of Papua New Guinea, where he lived in the early 1980s.Trios Is an emotionally charged music of extreme virtuosity and extreme beauty—from passages laden with devilishly difficult harmonics and bowing techniques played at wild, breakneck tempos to pensive stretches of lyric, vocal-like melody to the myriad musical riches suspended between these extremes. It is performed by three double bass virtuosos—Christopher Roberts, Mark Morton, and James Bergman—who make many of its most difficult passages sound easy.Some of this music came to Roberts in his dreams while living in New Guinea. The third movement, Kon Burunemo ("trembling leaf") was written in memory of the extraordinary bassist and teacher David Walter, with whom Roberts studied....http://www.coldbluemusic.com/pages/CB0030.html
