Elfman And Glass And Jlin And

Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion, whose artistry blends creative fearlessness with reverent precision BBC Music Magazine, offers an album of enterprising collaborations and world-premiere recordings of works written or arranged expressly for the Chicago-based percussion quartet, representing four different approaches to composing concert music. Danny Elfman's Percussion Quartet, structured like a four-movement symphony, shares distinctive traits heard in his Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated films scores, as well as hints of African balofon, Indonesian gamelan, and Shostakovich. Great admirers of composer Philip Glass, Third Coast arranged Glass's solo piano Metamorphosis No. 1 for marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, and melodica. Rubix emerged from Third Coast Percussion's improvisational collaboration with virtuosic, cutting-edge flute duo Flutronix, who also perform on the recording. Critically acclaimed electronic musician and composer Jlin Jerrilynn Patton composed her seven-movement Perspective as electronic tracks, without music notation. Third Coast transformed this work of beautiful complexity into a version they could perform live as a quartet.