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REDROR and other works by Michael Whiticker
LIBRA CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE

Michael Whiticker is one of Australia's urgent communicators. However his music may affect you it will never bore you with cliché or empty pleasntry. His work involves an impressive range of instrumental forces and contains passion and vigour, a wide diversity of style and a wealth of technical brilliance, encompassing influences from Korean classical music, to European avant-garde and much else.

playing time: 63.36  
direct sale price:  $18.99
audio  sample:  Ad Parnassum (extract)
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tracks:
Quidong
oboe/cor anglais, guitar and percussion
Redror
alto saxophone and percussion
In Prison Air
guitar and tape
Ad Parnassum
flute, mandolin, guitar, harp, percussion, violin, viola and double bass
Tulku
guitar
On Slanting Ground
clarinet and tape

review extracts:
“Asian influences give the small-scale works recorded here a less traditional European feel, and their use makes the composer's personal language exhilirating ... Whiticker's exploration of improvisation in the title track and 'In Prison Air' as well as his fascination with multiphonics and pitch variation make his corner of the Australian music scene an interesting one to explore. The disc is well recorded and presented.” - Tony Way (The Age)
“All six works collected on 'Redror' display the work of a fervent musical imagination, even if the end result does not always match Whiticker's restless ambition.” - RealTime
“a useful and impressive anthology ... already an important release” - Andrew Ford (ABC 24 Hours )