Blue

Blue

Andrew Russo, piano; Cristina Buciu, violin; Felix Fan, cello After you get beyond the somewhat disconcerting titles of both individual movements and overall compositions—e.g. “Mechanically Separated Chicken Parts,” “Lizzie’s Stomach,” etc.—and the rather provocative cover which prepares listeners for a sonic experience that’s more akin to Veruca Salt, Common Senser Marc Mellits’s brand of post-minimalism… Read more »

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Andrew Russo, piano; Cristina Buciu, violin; Felix Fan, cello

After you get beyond the somewhat disconcerting titles of both individual movements and overall compositions—e.g. “Mechanically Separated Chicken Parts,” “Lizzie’s Stomach,” etc.—and the rather provocative cover which prepares listeners for a sonic experience that’s more akin to Veruca Salt, Common Senser Marc Mellits’s brand of post-minimalism is both immediately appealing and an inspiration for deeper analytical listening. If the totally serene “Blue” from his otherwise frenetic piano trio called Fruity Pebbles is not really illustrative of the rest of this disc, it’s still wonderful proof of the ever fertile possibilities of one of chamber music’s most common sonic combinations.

—FJO