Zeena Parkins – Nightmare Alley
Table Of The Elements, 2007 Reissue
CD
Used
Recorded and mixed at Baby Monster Studio, NYC 1992.
Tracks 7 and 13 recorded and mixed at Dessau Studio, NYC 1992.
Premastering: Studio Zoar.
Includes new artwork and liner notes by Steve Dollar
1 Sleep
2 Empty Bottle
3 Model For A Colossal Moment
4 Love Letter
5 Freak
6 Nightmare Alley
7 Wonder Woman
8 Hula
9 Peephole
10 Zig X
11 Black On Black
12 Dirt Tone
13 Out Of The Past
14 Dreamer…She Dreams
15 Haireless
New York based electro-acoustic composer / improviser Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. Using expanded techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing she has re-defined the instrument’s capacities. Concurrently, Parkins self-designed a series of one-of-a kind electric instruments. She leans into the harp’s physical limitations pushing its boundaries and impossibilities. In her compositions, Parkins utilizes collections, recombination, historic proximities, geography, tactility, spatial configurations and movement. Sonic presence and personality is revealed in explorations of subtle frequency shifts, feedback, over and under tones, melodic fragments, timbral and gestural intervals, perception, and residues.