Petr Kotik
Many Many Women
Text by Gertrude Stein
S.E.M. Ensemble
3 hours and 35 minute excerpt
"The recording is an edited version of the complete 6-hour long performance. The nature of the music makes it impossible to to repeat and correct various passages, therefore, the recording proceeded despite occasional lapses and mistakes, impossible to avoid in a live performance. The recordings (two complete performances) were edited and combined by discarding parts, not acceptable for a record release."
Written in the late 70s and recorded in 1980 by Petr Kotik's own ensemble, Many Many Women was apparently respected within certain circles, but is definitely not famous, and the same pretty much goes for composer Petr Kotik.
I heard one of his compositions (via this) and really liked it, so tried to get hold of his "magnum opus" but found it extremely difficult.
Ended up finding it on eBay and it involved a fairly extreme price and shipping distance but it got here eventually.
I definitely feel that it was worth sharing via the blog for that fact alone!
I still haven't listened to it in it's entirety but I'm impressed.
It's got a pretty much non-stop use of parallel fifths, which is a hardcore approach to melody and harmony, but I think it works.
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