Lonely Motel: Music from Slide

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Release Date: 26th Sep 2011
Catalogue No: CDR90000128
Label: Cedille
Length: 56 minutes

Grammy Awards

54th Awards (2011)

Best Chamber Music Recording

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Mackey, S: Lonely Motel, Music from Slide

Work length48:31

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Rinde Eckert, Steven Mackey
eighth blackbird

Slide of Dog

Track length5:40

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Stare Prelude / Overture

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Depending

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She Walks

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Fog

Track length5:54

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Stare

Track length6:00

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Addiction

Track length3:48

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Processional

Track length3:36

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Running Dog 2

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Ghosts

Track length4:59

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Mackey, S: Lonely Motel

Work length8:18

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Rinde Eckert, Steven Mackey
eighth blackbird

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Lonely Motel is the world premiere recording of songs from the startlingly innovative music and theater work Slide, written for new-music sextet eighth blackbird, an ensemble of wind, string, piano, and percussion virtuosos. The group, with composer-electric guitarist Steven Mackey and singer, actor, and librettist Rinde Eckert, premiered the concert-length work at the 2009 Ojai Music Festival in Southern California, a mecca for cutting-edge music enthusiasts. The same forces perform on the new CD, which takes its title from the final song in the cycle.

Lonely Motel’s 11 songs are about “self-delusion and, ultimately, the isolation created by the attachments we develop to our own fuzzy, personal views of reality,” eighth blackbird says. Musically, the songs contain subtle homages to Dowland, Mozart, Stravinsky, Piazzola, and The Beatles.

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