Michael Nyman – Michael Nyman (1981)

1.   Bird Anthem (from Act of God) 2:37
2.   Initial Treat (from Tree) 2:50
3.    Secondary Treat (from Tree) 1:27
4.    In Re Don Giovanni 2:48
5.    Waltz in F 5:55
6.    Bird List Song (from The Falls) 4:19
7.    M-Work 21:09

Michael Nyman Band:

    Rory Allam - clarinet
    Alexander Balanescu - violin
    Anne Barnard - french horn
    Ben Grove - guitar, bass guitar
    John Harle - saxophone
    Nick Hayley - rebec, violin
    Ian Mitchell - clarinet
    Michael Nyman - piano
    Elisabeth Perry - violin
    Steve Saunders - trombone
    Roderick Skeaping - rebec, violin
    Keith Thompson - flute, piccolo, recorder, saxophone
    Doug Wootton – banjo
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    Peter Brötzmann - bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
    Evan Parker - soprano saxophone
    Lucie Skeaping – soprano

This reissue of Michael Nyman's second album from 1981 – effectively his first with a Michael Nyman Band that included Alexander Balanescu and Roderick Skeaping – has aged well.

Its industriously cycling Anglo-minimalism, couched in strings and reeds, is redolent of early Peter Greenaway films: "Bird List Song" is lovely, silly and serious the same time, like the film for which it was written, The Falls. The serio-comic tone helps sustain the music's appeal, compared to the joylessness of much American minimalism: this is music full of affirmative bustle, aware of its lurking pomposity, and not afraid to embrace the free-jazz squawks of Evan Parker and Peter Brötzmann on "Waltz". ---Andy Gill, independent.co.uk

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