Andrew Byrne: CDs


				White Bone Country (NEW WORLD RECORDS) This tripartite CD has a mobile-like character, working entirely with a fabric of piano and metal percussion in changing manners and images. The central work Tracks presents the solo piano in its most 'normal' sound and interaction with the player a kind of journey, as the title suggests, within a dense and accumulating polyrhythmic expression. The two surrounding groups of pieces extend from this in two different directions the opening White Bone Country towards reduced sound-reveries in processed piano and small metal percussion, the succeeding Mirages into pure sonic fantasies made from sampled sounds of prepared piano. read John McCaughey's CD notes - read review in Time Out, NY listen - buy from New World records
				Broadway Boogie (MOVE RECORDS) Broadway Boogie is the latest addition to the Michael Kieran Harvey Collection. CD includes Byrne's Six Dances for solo piano, as well as music by Andrew Ford, John McCaughey, Nigel Westlake, Mark Pollard, and Michael Kieran Harvey. In his CD introduction, Harvey writes: "This assemblage of recent Australian piano music has been selected for its allusions - sometimes extremely tenuous - to New York. A major international centre of ideas and creativity, this city maintains a galvanizing effect on Australian intellectual life in a way that, say, Washington never could..." more listen buy
				In these great times (BYRNEBAND RECORDS) combines hard-edged post minimal instrumental pieces with vocal tracks suggesting warped German cabaret songs. Added to the mix are electronic soundscapes. Together they form a CD that blurs the boundaries between experimental new music, world music and rock'n'roll. For this project Byrne is joined by the sound designer Steve Adam who contributes two pieces and adds an electronic element to the gritty amplified sound of the ByrneBand. The title "In these great times" is taken from an ironic text written in the 1930s by the Austrian writer/critic Karl Kraus. listen buy
				Threnody (ASTRA RECORDS) Michael Kieran Harvey, piano CD includes Byrne's Within Stanzas Works by Michael Kieran Harvey, Carl Vine, Stuart Campbell, John McCaughey, Andrew Byrne, Keith Humble, and James Anderson buy