Michael Robinson will premiere and discuss his new album, The Waters’ Child, and a new orchestration for Natabhairavi.

Track List:

1. The Waters’ Child – The Waters (24.14)

2. The Waters’ Child – Child (32.57)

3. Natabhairavi (57.59)

From the liner notes by Michael Robinson:
My title is from the ancient Atharaveda, actually referring to lightning begat by rain clouds, but here I think of The Waters’ Child representing the flash of creative concepts and musical ideas. 

For the opening movement, The Waters, in addition to Just Intonation used throughout my new composition, I spiced an acoustic piano timbre with degrees of introspectively expressive pitch wavering, mixing it with two tamboura drones, Indian bells, and an atmospheric yet earthy percussion ostinato with a rhythmic cycle of twelve matras.

Child presents a colorful cornucopia of keyboard timbres voicing the main melodic voice in turn, all used for the first time here, beginning with Farfisa organ, followed by an early synthesizer, a deep organ, a playful clavichord, and a smoky electric piano, in addition to two tambouras and a different rhythmic cycle of twelve matras.

Natabhairavi opens with a phrase modeled after Pandit Jasraj intoning, “Om Shiva,” repeated at the beginning of each of the four sections. Natabhairavi has a devotional rasa while focusing on interplay between the through-composed melodic and percussion voices. Piri, trumpet, cimbalom, clarinet, tabla, dholak, dhol, ghatam and three tambouras color my composition.

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