Fancies, Forbearance CD, co-released between Entr'acte (UK) and Senufo Editions (IT)
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Fancy: a 17th century term generally describing a composition in which form is of secondary importance. Fancies were usually contra-puntal and in several sections. (The Oxford Dictionary of Music)
Fancies (2009) served to reconcile previously unsettled material, based upon a scheme that condones disparity between its constituent parts. In the period since its completion, and subsequent issue on cassette, Fancies has come to represent an antithesis to what I originally termed ‘a work in parenthesis’.
Forbearance (2011) was composed specifically to accompany Fancies, and can be considered its honorary sixth part. The work signals a shift in my attitude towards notions of compositional economy, formal concurrence and discordance, engagement and refrain — aspects of Fancies that I have since come to admire.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Fancies was previously available on cassette in an edition of 50 copies (E101; 2010)
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