James Rushford - Turzets LP `1980s while his use of Ethiopian

while his use of Ethiopian pentatonic scale within the Western Art Music format places his compositions in conversation with more academically minded work

1995) and the first Seconds tape (1994)

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Magical melodies

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James Rushford - Turzets LP `1980s while his use of EthiopianThe latest in a prolific string of solo and collaborative releases by James Rushford, Turzets collects a pair of new works primarily created and recorded last year while the Australian composer performer was in residence at La Becque, an art center on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The side length piece Fallaway Whisk explores hesitation in its many formsreticence of speech, sonic restraintusing live, abstracted translations of text from English to