Andriessen, Jurriaan

The Awakening Dream

Jurriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) was a Dutch composer. Although he was actually at home in classical music, he recorded three synthesizer albums in the late 1970s, the first of which, "The Awakening Dream" (1977), is an outstanding excursion into experimental ambient and minimal music. Andriessen himself, 52 years of age at the time, called it a "a trance symphony". The music-perhaps surprisingly for a contemporary classical composer-is less in the tradition of his peers such as Pierre Boulez or Karlheinz Stockhausen and more in tune with the electronic sounds of the Seventies emanating from Berlin, Duesseldorf or Forst, the likes of Cluster, early Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, in places echoing Conrad Schnitzler. Andriessen was familiar with the work of these artists, but was probably more influenced by minimalist composers like Philip Glass or synthesizer pioneer Walter Carlos whom he admired. The entire album is played on a Minimoog Model D, a Fender Rhodes piano, a Hohner Clavinet and a Philicorda organ. It was recorded sound on sound, before the 8-track machine entered the studio, using two Revox A77 tape recorders.

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05-05-2017
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501544
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY
2. OVERTONES
3. BEYOND THE VEIL
4. ROUNDELAY
5. ODE ON SOLITUDE
6. ELEGY
7. THE CASTLE OF INDOLESCENCE
8. SHES FAR FROM THE LAND
9. THE CHILD MUSICIAN
10. LOVES PRISONER
11. THE LAKE DROUGHT
12. FORSAKEN GARDEN