ROEDELIUS – 90 (Special Birthday Edition) – 4CD Box Set

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the hallway) with a Boesendorfer grand must have felt like divine intervention. For Achim, it afforded the time and space to develop an unmatched intimacy and ease with this expressive instrumentenabling the same profound rapport that he had forged with the Farfisa and Echolette years before. The rippling, layered arpeggios in these pieces reveal an irresistible transition from the processes of Achims electronic past to the more idiomatic piano approach he would discover and eventuallylike all Roedeliusmusikmake entirely his own.

A final note here: 90 is in no way intended as the exhaustive retrospective of the oeuvre of an important artist (this can, and should, be done in the coming years by someone more qualified than me.) The actual chronology of these pieces, and in some cases who might have collaborated with Achim on them, remain a mystery. But the historical context of this music is undeniably compellingit doesnt feel like hyperbole to suggest that these cascading, hypnotic cycles equal the best of contemporaries like Terry Riley, working half a world away on their own minimal masterpieces.

For now, a celebration is sufficientthe portrait of an extraordinary life at 90, narrated in beautiful, intimate, innovative music.”

(Tim Story, March 2024)

Tracklist:

CD1:
1. 322 40
2. 221 37
3. 217 09
4. 54 30
5. 443 09
6. TB13 16 37
7. TB6 35 49
8. TB13 36 49
9. 357 41
10. TB36 2 14
11. 3704 90
12. TB34r 13 37
13. TB6 25

CD2:
1. 332 05
2. 222 13
3. TB36 6 47
4. TB36 9 18
5. TB38 58 36
6. TB38 149 43
7. TB39 69 45
8. TB41 35 58
9. 352 30
10. TB11 34 20
11. TB11 29 15
12. TB6 43 47
13. TB4 8 57
14. TB36 69 23
15. TB6 101 30
16. Moebi Speaks

CD3:
1. 774 02 E
2. TB33 116
3. TB11 144 24
4. TB35 21 24
5. 647 32
6. 131 33
7. 792 43
8. TB10 76 16
9. TB6 55 03
10. 776 665 54
11. TB41 38 28

CD4:
1. 633 09
2. 384 57
3. 1027 35
4. 934 19
5. 154 32
6. Fostex 58
7. 430 15
8. 587 18
9. 897 00
10. 663 20