About:
Weather Systems II continues Steven Schick’s monumental traversal of works for
percussion that he has brought into this world, and then championed.
Reynolds’s Here and There, on a Beckett text, is included in a newly released
album set from Islandia Records. Schick writes that “purely instrumental
passages — parsed in characteristic Reynolds virtuosity — alternate with unadorned
recitations of the text … the ultimate project of the piece [is] — bridging the
unspeakable gaps that Beckett proposes: between the mother and the grave, between
here and there, now and then. Reynolds creates his own bridges, between the bright
clarity of a music of knowing … and the mistiness of a music of longing … music
that … is among his most intimate and immediate."
