Pulse: Transcriptions & Sources

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR at the 2002 New Zealand Music Awards.

Jack Body is a composer who has travelled to remote locations to experience his musical sources first hand.

Obsessively recording, collecting, and transcribing he has set out in an instinctive and overt way to recreate his experiences in a new musical context.

His response is visceral. He draws on a rich field of musical traditions, intrigued by their varieties of rhythm. melody, colour, and that fundamental life-force, pulse, which unites all musics, all peoples, all life.

Well known for his incorporation of 'world' influences within contemporary forms, composer Jack Body has now released a truly unique album, featuring both his transcriptions, plus a bonus disc featuring the original sources.

Performers on the project include the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand String Quartet and Budi Putra (a Javanaese artist playing the gender and kendna) as well as Japanese guitarists Nary Sato and Kei Koh.