BACKGROUND COUNT

“High-tech electroacoustic music fills the new disc by James Brody. Yet it sounds more physical than technical. It reminds me somehow of the distant and lonely sound world of Vladamir Ussachevsky’s musique concrete of the 1960s, except that Brody’s sounds attract the ear more–no surprise after 40 years of technological development. Brody’s real inspiration is Xenakis, to whom be dedicates Syllepsis, the longest and most recent piece. Over the course of a quarter of an hour, it builds up several layers, creating a white heat of intensity that only barely subsides in the last few seconds.”
– American Record Guide; 1/1/2004; Josh Mailman