Glassworks: Translucent Blue Vinyl LP Archie Shepp but the odd textures

but the odd textures

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Glassworks: Translucent Blue Vinyl LP Archie Shepp but the odd texturesThe usual stuff is here: arpeggio versus ostinato, ostinato versus arpeggio. And as always, the Philip Glass Ensemble's synthesizers double their woodwinds. But Glassworks is the most pleasant craftwork ever from the great minimalist exploiter six warm pieces that approach the spirit of minimalist pioneer Erik Satie. Only instead of Satie's lyrical to antic jumps, Glass creates the ruminative to excitable kind. "Opening"'s softly rolled piano melody