ince the 1960s, composer, performer and humanitarian Pauline Olivros has influenced American

music profoundly through her work with improvisation, eletronic music, myth and ritual. Her

work emphasizes attention strategies, and many credit her as the founder of present-day meditative

music. In Primordial/Lift, Ms. Oliveros engages a more aggressive, electric sound with assistance from

fellow minimalist Tony Conrad and Gastr del Sol's David Grubbs. Within a strategic modulation processed

through a low frequency oscillator, Conrad's violin, Grubbs' harmonium, and Oliveros' signature accordion

drone and enthrall. As the composer writes: "The guiding metaphor of Primordial Lift structures the musicians'

performances, mirroring the resonate frequency of the earth and its acceleration from 7.8 to 13hz and

beyond. In 1994 the frequency was already at 8.6 and 13hz will be achieved by 2010, at which point the

magnetic fields of the earth will pass through a zero point and a polar shift will occur. The acceleration

from 7.8 to 13hz is 'Primordial'; 13hz and beyond is 'Lift'."

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"In their hushed intensity and breadth of vision, Pauline Oliveros' works for accordion and spatial processing

(or actual physical reverberant spaces) have become a benchmark, even if relatively unlauded, of American

music in the last half of the 20th century."

—DUSTED

"On some level, music, sound consciousness and religion are all one, and she would seem to be very close to

that level ... Few composers can summon such gentle majesty."

—THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Oliveros' music makes you listen afresh to the simplest sounds."

— VILLAGE VOICE

RELEASE DATE: JULY 11, 2006

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