Drone Mass. [CD]

Contents: Drone Mass was commissioned by ACME in 2015 in celebration of it's 10th anniversary and was premiered by the late J¢hann J¢hannsson, ACME, and Roomful of Teeth in the Temple of Dendur in the Sackler Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to J¢hannsson, Drone Mass is a 60-minute contemporary oratorio which fuses the sounds of string quartet, electronics and vocals, and is inspired by texts from the Nag Hammadi library, sometimes referred to as the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians. Contents: One Is True -- Two Is Apocryphal -- Triptych in Mass -- To Fold & Remain Dormant -- Divine Objects -- The Low Drone of Circulating Blood, Diminished with Time -- Moral Vacuums -- Take the Night Air -- The Mountain View, the Majesty of the Snow-Clad Peaks, from a Place of Contemplation and Reflection.

1 sound disc

Edition Number: DEGR B003490002-2
Publisher Number: B003490002
Distributor Number: DEGRB003490002
UPC: 028948374182