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Around the World in a Daze
Phil Kline
Around the World in a Daze
Genres: Pop, Classical
 
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Phil Kline's "Around the World in a Daze" is a 65-minute surround-sound studio composition commissioned by Starkland to premiere on this DVD. Daze opens with the multi-channel ambiance near Kline's home in New York City...  more »

     
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All Artists: Phil Kline
Title: Around the World in a Daze
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Starkland
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 3/24/2009
Album Type: Enhanced
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Chamber Music
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 754702021596

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Phil Kline's "Around the World in a Daze" is a 65-minute surround-sound studio composition commissioned by Starkland to premiere on this DVD. Daze opens with the multi-channel ambiance near Kline's home in New York City's lower East Side, glides into an ethereal Ethel string quartet, peaks with a tidal wave of hundreds of thousands of bells, shifts to the soaring violinistics of Todd Reynolds, and concludes with an immersive environment of 15,000 chattering, African gray parrots. Along the way, listeners are also seduced by swirling, hypersampled Wagner, a weird madrigal about bitterness and bees, a Bach prelude eerily processed into a Zurich train station, and a mournfully multi-tracked "wailing wall." Offered in a custom-designed digipak, this double-DVD release adds an Extras DVD with a composer-produced music video, a 34-minute interview of the composer with John Schaefer, as well as a 24-page booklet. The main DVD offers Daze in several formats for various playback setups: standard-DVD Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; higher quality DTS 5.1; highest-quality uncompressed DVD-Audio; and PCM stereo. Playback of the Daze music is accompanied by over 80 images shot by Kline. This DVD emerges as a followup to Starkland's Immersion DVD-Audio, once a #1 Best-Seller at Amazon and now recognized as a groundbreaking recording that let listeners experience new music in high-resolution surround sound for the first time. about the composer From vast boombox symphonies to chamber music and songs cycles, Phil Kline's work has been hailed for its originality and beauty. "Kline has graduated from 'experimental' to 'original' - he's one of America's most important compositional voices" (Philadelphia Inquirer). His compositions have been performed in rock clubs, art galleries, and major concert halls throughout the world. The New York Times wrote, "Magic was happening as you sat there. Here was a real original." Kline's Zippo Songs was one of the most widely hailed new music CDs of 2004. The CD was named "Best of the Year" by The New York Times, Newsday, and Gramophone. A figure in the downtown New York rock scene in the 1980s, Kline founded the band the Del-Byzanteens with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and painter James Nares, collaborated with photographer Nan Goldin on the soundtrack to her Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and toured the world as a veteran of Glenn Branca's legendary guitar ensemble.

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Around The World in A Daze
H. Silver | New York, NY USA | 05/19/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The DVD set for Phil Kline: Around the World in a Daze is one of the most elegant sets -both physically and aurally for a modern music composer. Kline's music takes full advantage of the surround sound capability of these discs. There are so many things to like about Kline's music: his references to early and classical music, his extreme playfulness and his exceptional ability to make bold experimental sounds in an accessible framework."
WONDERFUL, EXTRAORDINARY
Z. | 09/04/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I recently heard this on a surround system and thought it was extraordinary. The sections are quite varied, and there were some amazing moments unlike anything I'd ever heard. Overall - wonderful. (And I think it would sound pretty good in stereo too.)



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5 Stars - Outstanding!!!
Gary S. Berger MD | 09/19/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The music here is skillfully assembled and amazingly effective. The use of surround sound is exemplary. Overall, it's one of the most interesting records in my collection."