Daniel Lentz
Lips
Boomkat Product Review:
Unseen Worlds take a quietly compelling 90 minute deep dive into Daniel Lentz’s works 1965-1989, demonstrating effortlessly enchanting, imaginative melds of Native American, medieval, and minimalist classical and avant-collage musics, as inspired by his native Californian landscapes - RIYL Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Lovely Music, Inc., Laraaji
The quarter century of work scanned in ‘Lips’ acts as ear-opening primer on the remarkable diversity and holistic qualities of Daniel Lentz compositions. They hail to a particularly fertile phase of North American music that Lentz chimed into since the ’70s, terraforming his own wondrous conceptions whilst also collaborating with the likes of Harold Budd and the LA Philharmonic New Music Group. Holding 11 works including his definitive 20’ statement ‘North American Eclipse’, the joyous ‘Talk Radio’, and a six-part medieval choral suite, the compilation provides a widescreen perspective on how Lentz draws from his part Seneca heritage and academic studies of electronic music in the ‘60s, and his readings of the Californian landscape, to pursue a vision of organised sound at once fixed and spontaneous, elemental and life-affirming.
Lentz most beautifully firms up many of his musical and non-musical ideas in the set’s lead work ‘North American Eclipse’, a 20 minute piece for 12 voices, drum, bone rasps, and bells. First written in 1974 and based on a traditional Seneca dance for the dead, it finds Lentz drawing on his great-grandmother’s Iroquois heritage for a mesmerising spirit quest transitioning from shakers recalling Julius Eastman works to keening choral harmonies led by a solitary drum - it’s haunting but sublime, surely evoking a shift from dark to light with a sense of positivity that continues to define the set.
We hear that utopian spirit manifest in the sweeping rustic strings and cascading keys of ‘Song(s) of the Sirens’, where fractured phonemes conjure new meanings, thru to his brilliant suggestion of a road trip soundtracked by ‘Talk Radio’, in which country strings clash Reichian minimalist phrasing and killer Latin grooves and baroque chamber music, kinda like a Carl Stone cut-up performed by a ensemble. His range is ultimately epitomised by the final 6-part suite ‘Requiem, In Memoriam Wolfgang Stoerchle – Songs in a Medieval Manner’, presenting choral chamber music in subtly altered lights, and in a way that beautifully plays to Unseen Worlds releases’ typical balance of the daring and accessible.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Unseen Worlds take a quietly compelling 90 minute deep dive into Daniel Lentz’s works 1965-1989, demonstrating effortlessly enchanting, imaginative melds of Native American, medieval, and minimalist classical and avant-collage musics, as inspired by his native Californian landscapes - RIYL Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Lovely Music, Inc., Laraaji
The quarter century of work scanned in ‘Lips’ acts as ear-opening primer on the remarkable diversity and holistic qualities of Daniel Lentz compositions. They hail to a particularly fertile phase of North American music that Lentz chimed into since the ’70s, terraforming his own wondrous conceptions whilst also collaborating with the likes of Harold Budd and the LA Philharmonic New Music Group. Holding 11 works including his definitive 20’ statement ‘North American Eclipse’, the joyous ‘Talk Radio’, and a six-part medieval choral suite, the compilation provides a widescreen perspective on how Lentz draws from his part Seneca heritage and academic studies of electronic music in the ‘60s, and his readings of the Californian landscape, to pursue a vision of organised sound at once fixed and spontaneous, elemental and life-affirming.
Lentz most beautifully firms up many of his musical and non-musical ideas in the set’s lead work ‘North American Eclipse’, a 20 minute piece for 12 voices, drum, bone rasps, and bells. First written in 1974 and based on a traditional Seneca dance for the dead, it finds Lentz drawing on his great-grandmother’s Iroquois heritage for a mesmerising spirit quest transitioning from shakers recalling Julius Eastman works to keening choral harmonies led by a solitary drum - it’s haunting but sublime, surely evoking a shift from dark to light with a sense of positivity that continues to define the set.
We hear that utopian spirit manifest in the sweeping rustic strings and cascading keys of ‘Song(s) of the Sirens’, where fractured phonemes conjure new meanings, thru to his brilliant suggestion of a road trip soundtracked by ‘Talk Radio’, in which country strings clash Reichian minimalist phrasing and killer Latin grooves and baroque chamber music, kinda like a Carl Stone cut-up performed by a ensemble. His range is ultimately epitomised by the final 6-part suite ‘Requiem, In Memoriam Wolfgang Stoerchle – Songs in a Medieval Manner’, presenting choral chamber music in subtly altered lights, and in a way that beautifully plays to Unseen Worlds releases’ typical balance of the daring and accessible.
Boomkat Product Review:
Unseen Worlds take a quietly compelling 90 minute deep dive into Daniel Lentz’s works 1965-1989, demonstrating effortlessly enchanting, imaginative melds of Native American, medieval, and minimalist classical and avant-collage musics, as inspired by his native Californian landscapes - RIYL Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Lovely Music, Inc., Laraaji
The quarter century of work scanned in ‘Lips’ acts as ear-opening primer on the remarkable diversity and holistic qualities of Daniel Lentz compositions. They hail to a particularly fertile phase of North American music that Lentz chimed into since the ’70s, terraforming his own wondrous conceptions whilst also collaborating with the likes of Harold Budd and the LA Philharmonic New Music Group. Holding 11 works including his definitive 20’ statement ‘North American Eclipse’, the joyous ‘Talk Radio’, and a six-part medieval choral suite, the compilation provides a widescreen perspective on how Lentz draws from his part Seneca heritage and academic studies of electronic music in the ‘60s, and his readings of the Californian landscape, to pursue a vision of organised sound at once fixed and spontaneous, elemental and life-affirming.
Lentz most beautifully firms up many of his musical and non-musical ideas in the set’s lead work ‘North American Eclipse’, a 20 minute piece for 12 voices, drum, bone rasps, and bells. First written in 1974 and based on a traditional Seneca dance for the dead, it finds Lentz drawing on his great-grandmother’s Iroquois heritage for a mesmerising spirit quest transitioning from shakers recalling Julius Eastman works to keening choral harmonies led by a solitary drum - it’s haunting but sublime, surely evoking a shift from dark to light with a sense of positivity that continues to define the set.
We hear that utopian spirit manifest in the sweeping rustic strings and cascading keys of ‘Song(s) of the Sirens’, where fractured phonemes conjure new meanings, thru to his brilliant suggestion of a road trip soundtracked by ‘Talk Radio’, in which country strings clash Reichian minimalist phrasing and killer Latin grooves and baroque chamber music, kinda like a Carl Stone cut-up performed by a ensemble. His range is ultimately epitomised by the final 6-part suite ‘Requiem, In Memoriam Wolfgang Stoerchle – Songs in a Medieval Manner’, presenting choral chamber music in subtly altered lights, and in a way that beautifully plays to Unseen Worlds releases’ typical balance of the daring and accessible.
Boomkat Product Review:
Unseen Worlds take a quietly compelling 90 minute deep dive into Daniel Lentz’s works 1965-1989, demonstrating effortlessly enchanting, imaginative melds of Native American, medieval, and minimalist classical and avant-collage musics, as inspired by his native Californian landscapes - RIYL Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Lovely Music, Inc., Laraaji
The quarter century of work scanned in ‘Lips’ acts as ear-opening primer on the remarkable diversity and holistic qualities of Daniel Lentz compositions. They hail to a particularly fertile phase of North American music that Lentz chimed into since the ’70s, terraforming his own wondrous conceptions whilst also collaborating with the likes of Harold Budd and the LA Philharmonic New Music Group. Holding 11 works including his definitive 20’ statement ‘North American Eclipse’, the joyous ‘Talk Radio’, and a six-part medieval choral suite, the compilation provides a widescreen perspective on how Lentz draws from his part Seneca heritage and academic studies of electronic music in the ‘60s, and his readings of the Californian landscape, to pursue a vision of organised sound at once fixed and spontaneous, elemental and life-affirming.
Lentz most beautifully firms up many of his musical and non-musical ideas in the set’s lead work ‘North American Eclipse’, a 20 minute piece for 12 voices, drum, bone rasps, and bells. First written in 1974 and based on a traditional Seneca dance for the dead, it finds Lentz drawing on his great-grandmother’s Iroquois heritage for a mesmerising spirit quest transitioning from shakers recalling Julius Eastman works to keening choral harmonies led by a solitary drum - it’s haunting but sublime, surely evoking a shift from dark to light with a sense of positivity that continues to define the set.
We hear that utopian spirit manifest in the sweeping rustic strings and cascading keys of ‘Song(s) of the Sirens’, where fractured phonemes conjure new meanings, thru to his brilliant suggestion of a road trip soundtracked by ‘Talk Radio’, in which country strings clash Reichian minimalist phrasing and killer Latin grooves and baroque chamber music, kinda like a Carl Stone cut-up performed by a ensemble. His range is ultimately epitomised by the final 6-part suite ‘Requiem, In Memoriam Wolfgang Stoerchle – Songs in a Medieval Manner’, presenting choral chamber music in subtly altered lights, and in a way that beautifully plays to Unseen Worlds releases’ typical balance of the daring and accessible.
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