{"product_id":"fts004","title":"Richard Horowitz - Eros in Arabia","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCAT: FTS004\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date:\u003cbr\u003e October 06, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis vibration is cast into new dimensions. Liberating Eros, it circles the globe, backwards and forwards, flowing to and through us. It is said the artist has a gift— suited for the erotic life of property.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eEros in Arabia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eRichard Horowitz\u003c\/strong\u003e channels this vibration and bends bandit sounds by pairing the ancient \u003cem\u003eney\u003c\/em\u003e cane flute with the Prophet-5 synthesizer. Interspersed with other instruments and ideas, like echo delayed Moroccan drumming and self-made magic, these elements deal in duality like the ever-shifting characteristics of the composer: the Hollywood Horowitz who scores films like \u003cem\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAny Given Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Morocco Horowitz who founded the Gnaoua Festival in Mogador, attended by 500,000 people every year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking in natural succession from end to beginning, “Elephant Dance” demonstrates the central synth and \u003cem\u003eney\u003c\/em\u003e node to explore energetic sound patterns Horowitz imagined to be played in the 16th century on the island of Java, around the time Sufi’s may have arrived in Indonesia. Delicately trampling the twenty minute mark, the piece offers an immersive climate of microtones that might, with the primordial matter of love, alter DNA. “Baby Elephant Magic” is “Elephant Dance” but sped up— producing digital baubles that sound less like an Indonesian forest, more like an urban hive of mechanical insect interaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piano on “23\/8 for Conlon Nancarrow,” with John Cage technique at play, is played “as fast as possible by a human.” The sounds are driven to derail from the space time continuum. On “Never Tech No Foreign Answer,” a cheap cassette recorder microphone captures the Prophet-5 left to the devices of its master’s inner clock, taking on a frenzied sound form that vibrates in place before bouncing off the tape case walls. Chaos is concentric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Queen of Saba” incorporates the vocals of long-time collaborator, \u003cstrong\u003eSussan Deyhim\u003c\/strong\u003e. Described as one of Iran’s most potent voices in exile, Deyhim’s work is in both the tradition of Sufis and the late feminist poet, \u003cstrong\u003eForough Farrokhzad\u003c\/strong\u003e. Recently Deyhim and Horowitz worked together on a multi-media performance based upon Forrokhzad’s Iranian New Wave film, \u003cem\u003eThe House Is Black\u003c\/em\u003e. Here Deyhim performs a taḥrīr where vocals go low to high without any semantically meaningful words. Horowitz’s associations with great cultural icons of the Middle East, like these women, soften (in)appropriations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLess aggressive than its predecessors, “Eros Never Stops Dreaming” introduces the bendir frame drum, the feathery wind of the \u003cem\u003eney\u003c\/em\u003e floating above its bowing rhythm with effortless mathematics. “Bandit Nrah Master of Rajasthan” begins where the album ends, an ode to Shakuhachi flute players known to indulge in both trance-inducing circular breathing and espionage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorowitz is linked with the worldly sound seeking circles of minimalist and avant-garde New York City musicians, especially \u003cstrong\u003eLou Harrison\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eLa Monte Young\u003c\/strong\u003e, with whom Horowitz shared Shandar as a record label momentarily. He recorded and toured with \u003cstrong\u003eJon Hassell\u003c\/strong\u003e and collaborated with \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Byrne\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJean-Philippe Rykie\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eBill Laswell\u003c\/strong\u003e. Along his travels he befriended \u003cstrong\u003eBrion Gysin\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Bowles\u003c\/strong\u003e, the latter whom mentored Horowitz over decades of correspondence, some of which documents the making of \u003cem\u003eEros\u003c\/em\u003e and comes quite \u003cem\u003eliterally\u003c\/em\u003e with this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA record of physical and intellectual love for Arabia, FTS extends this flowing forward and backward - a shimmer that reverses the backward spelling of \u003cem\u003eZtiworoh\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eEros\u003c\/em\u003e is presented in the ever present. To borrow from a song title, Horowitz remains gainfully employed as an “inter-dimensional travel agent.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLP edition includes exclusive Risograph printed insert with original Eros in Arabia cover collage and a reproduction of a letter from Paul Bowles and Richard Horowitz’s long documented correspondence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BRA2pra_jg0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FTS004","offers":[{"title":"DIGITAL - $10","offer_id":13131055169605,"sku":"FTS004DIGI","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - $24","offer_id":13131055104069,"sku":"FTS004LP","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0026\/6993\/6709\/products\/FTS004_DIGITAL_COVER_500x500_328e566d-3015-4fec-aa58-9cc3c86069aa.jpg?v=1535219585","url":"https:\/\/igetrvng.com\/products\/fts004","provider":"RVNG Intl.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}