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Sideshow is Matt Moran's one-ring circus for exploring, extrapolating, and interpreting songs by visionary American composer Charles Ives. The project has included longtime collaborators Theo Bleckmann, Mat Maneri, Adam Good, John Hollenbeck, and Oscar Noriega. CRI released "Songs of Charles Ives" as their first cd on their pioneering BlueShift label; the second Sideshow cd will be released soon on Diskonife. |
Sideshow's debut CD on CRI/Blueshift Sideshow's debut cd was released in April, 2001 on BlueShift. "One of
the 10 best cds of 2001" "An elegant
sleeper" |
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Village
Voice Best of NYC 1999 |
Ives wrote many pieces for "theater orchestra" -- an ensemble he defined as whoever shows up. Each individual part or line has a tensile strength great enough to carry the music and listener along, regardless of whether everything written is heard, regardless of whether everything heard is exactly as written. Ives also spoke of the power of "songs without words" -- music implying a text or meaning like a ghost of the original. "Vagueness can be an indication of nearness to perfect truth," he said; we find in that inspiration to explore the region where the defined and the undefined merge, where the disparate find union in the fact of co-existence. This sonic flexibility, this telescoping of the universal within the personal, and the focused mood in every Ives song with or without words, are what inspire Sideshow to interpret these songs. As Ives says in the postlude of 114 Songs, "must a song always be a song?" |
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photo credit: Valerie Trucchia |
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