Tahsili Consort IV
Lusive Tunes 2000
Just what does ‘Lusive’ mean, why are Eric, Bobby & Richard ‘Out to Lunch,’ and will they really be back in about 15 minutes? Listen closely if you want to find out. Correction - listen closely even if you don’t want to find out.
Tahsili Consort continues its musical adventure with Tahsili Consort IV. Some say this is our best CD. (I tend to think that the one I'm listening to at the time is the best one.) Certainly the group asks more of the listener here. Also, the addition of violin and cello on a few of the tracks adds a new color and texture to our sound.
I contributed more solo piano improvisations to this CD than to any of the previous releases, primarily because it has become harder to get the group together to record. However, I still think of these pieces as Tahsili Consort pieces, because the playing was done in the context and under the influence of the group recordings. Just think of the rest of the group as performing very quietly.
Joining Tahsili Consort Lusively are:
Ted Bruchel Violin
Beth Curdel Flute
It’s clever, but is it art? --- R. Kipling
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later. --- M. Davis
The greatest harm is done when the thought is more important than the work. --- Leonardo
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. --- H. G. Wells
[ Yet no good artist can live without the critic within. --- Delbert Chu ]
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. --- M. Twain
[ Our music sounds better than it is. --- L. C. Threebud ]
The highest condition of art is artlessness. ----- H. D. Thoreau
[ Artlessness is a good description of much of what we do. --- Butch Elder ]
The twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me the opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. --- I. Stravinsky
[ So that’s why we are so exhausted after a performance? --- Red Lucht ]
All works of art should begin at the end. --- E. A. Poe
[ But sometimes the fun is in not knowing where the beginning will take you. --- Bruce Heldt ]