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Prism Quartet - Paradigm Lost '2017

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Paradigm Lost
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Album name Paradigm Lost
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Date 2017
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Size 243 MB; 1.01 GB
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If it is possible for a group with over three decades of pioneering work to
reintroduce itself, then that’s what Paradigm Lost does for the PRISM
Quartet. After a string of important and boundary-busting releases on Innova,
ECM, and many other labels, this collection firmly establishes PRISM’s
own XAS label, and offers a kind of “State of the Union” address for
the saxophone quartet.

The album title is also well-considered. If there ever was a paradigm for a
saxophone quartet, PRISM has long since dispensed with it, through a radical
re-examination of what the saxophone can do... and who it can do it with. The
quartet has worked with choirs, chamber ensembles, jazz bands, and the weird and
wild instrumentarium designed by Harry Partch. As it happens, the works on this
album, whatever their origins, are simply for saxophone quartet, but they all
come from a place of collaboration, with composers who reflect the musical and
cultural diversity of 21st century America.

The six composers featured on Paradigm Lost represent the pinnacle of excellence
in new American music. Between them, they have received virtually every major
composition award and fellowship, including the Pulitzer Prize for Music,
Grawemeyer Award, Rome Prize, Gram- my Award, Guggenheim and NEA fellowships,
Charles Ives Living Award and Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center, Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, and commissions from the Fromm,
Naumburg, and Koussevitzky foundations.

Paradigm Lost is the third release of PRISM’s label, XAS Records, founded
to advance the Quartet’s mission to share extraordinary saxophone music
with listeners around the world.

Paradigm Lost was made possible with generous sup- port from the Aaron Copland
Fund for Music, Inc.; the National Endowment for the Arts; and New Music USA,
made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Helen F.
Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

PRISM Quartet

Tracklist:
01. Prism Quartet - Paradigm Lost (13:05)
02. Prism Quartet - Fearful Symmetries (arr. T. McAllister for saxophone
quartet) (3:03)
03. Prism Quartet - I. W (6:20)
04. Prism Quartet - II. N (4:18)
05. Prism Quartet - III. S (6:24)
06. Prism Quartet - IV. E (4:15)
07. Prism Quartet - Prism (Memo 6b) (10:55)
08. Prism Quartet - Not Alone (14:03)
09. Prism Quartet - Squeeze (2:35)

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