Afterwords

简介

'Afterwords' combines original solo piano with the spoken word. Each piece is a musical meditation on quotations from Tobin's favorite novels, short stories and poems. To musically illustrate each quotation, Tobin employs varying musical genres, from post-bop to classic jazz to new age to neo-classical. The mix of styles creates a rich multi-cultural tapestry. “Mueller’s compositional vocabulary and his prowess as a pianist are eloquent and elegant, lively and whimsical, provocative and inspirational by turns. Afterwords is highly original recording that will uplift the listener, challenge his philosophical perspectives and stimulate his aural sensibility." - Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold, Fanfare Magazine music critic "The challenge of representing through music my personal response to literature's nuanced insights," Tobin writes, "has been a great pleasure. From classics to science fiction to children's stories to contemporary novels, the books I've chosen represent moments of my own life, frozen in time and entangled in memory. I try to honor and cherish them the best way I know how: at the piano." "I am in awe of Tobin’s fearless pursuit of honesty and originality in his work. 'Afterwords' is an astonishing work of art." - Kathy Parsons, Mainly Piano Disc One - track list 1. In the Amber of the Moment (after Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five”) 2. The Space Between Chaos and Shape (after Jeanette Winterson’s “Stories”) 3. The Unicorn and the Butterfly (after Peter S. Beagle’s “The Last Unicorn”) 4. Every Night a World, Every Morning a Circus (after John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”) 5. Longing (after Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”) 6. The Old Man and the Sea (after Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”) 7. Dignity; or, Collecting Scarves (after Dave Eggers’s “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”) 8. Learn Something (after T. H. White’s “The Once and Future King”) 9. Under Your Boot-Soles (after Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”) Disc Two - track list 10. One With Stars (entr'acte) 11. Violated By Insight (after Aimee Bender’s “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt”) 12. Real (after Margery Williams’s “The Velveteen Rabbit” & Ian McEwan’s “Atonement”) 13. Dissolution, a lullaby (after China Miéville’s “Perdido Street Station”) 14. The Shape of Love (after William Faulkner’s “Beyond”) 15. Stone Water Trough (after Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country For Old Men”) 16. Never Left Behind (after Clive James’ “Sentenced to Life”) 17. Afterwords (after Chuck Palahniuk’s “Survivor” & Jerzy Kosiński’s “The Painted Bird”) For more information, complete liner notes and seven more bonus tracks, see: www.tobinmueller.com/afterwords

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