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Poison Darts

by Charlie Looker

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'Poison Darts' (2009) was written for Russell Greenberg and Ian Antonio, the virtuoso New York percussionists best known for their work in Yarn/Wire.

The instrumentation is marimba, vibraphone, 1 crotale, woodblock, wooden plank, 2 toms, and 2 concert bass drums

The relentless stream of purely melodic material, and the ways it develops over time, was informed by Louis Andriessen, and by my dear friend and then-bandmate in Zs, Sam Hillmer. There's a fair amount of influence by improvising musicians like Roscoe Mitchell and Craig Taborn. And, believe it or not, I was also consciously influenced by rap music, in the way that the melodic phrases "rhyme".

This piece was written before I settled into the vocal-based style of "rock"-related composition that people know me for. At this point, I was considering the path of the academic "Classical Composer" and I was approaching composition from that angle. This level of harmonic complexity and extended formal development is something I feel myself returning to in 2020. I'm thrilled to share this early piece, which is now feeling more and more relevant to me.


Recorded in Brooklyn NY in 2009, by Russell Greenberg

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released August 7, 2020

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