Partch Ensemble – Partch: The Wayward [CD]

Description

Bridge Records is pleased to issue the latest recording by Partch Ensemble, the Grammy Award winning new music group specializing in the music and instruments of the iconoclastic American composer Harry Partch. Partch’s “The Wayward” in the composer’s own words, is “a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters-the result of my wanderings in the Western part of the United States from 1935 to 1941.” This is the world premiere recording of Partch’s complete cycle.

Tracklist:

1. Barstow, Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California
2. San Francisco, A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties
3. Letter, A Depression Message from a Hobo Friend
4. U.S. Highball, A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip
5. Ulysses at the Edge, A Minor Adventure in Rhythm
6. Ulysses at the Edge (Improv Version)

UPC: 090404961120
Label: Bridge
Release Date: 10.31.25
Format: CD