John Adams
Road Movies

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Track Listing

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1	Road Movies: I. Relaxed Groove	4:47
2	Road Movies: II. Meditative	5:34
3	Road Movies: III. 40% Swing	4:53
4	Hallelujah Junction: Movement I	7:12
5	Hallelujah Junction: Movement II	2:38
6	Hallelujah Junction: Movement III	6:35
7	China Gates	4:28
8	American Berserk	6:00
9	Phrygian Gates: Part 1	14:23
10	Phrygian Gates: Part 2 (A System of Weights and Measures)	3:25
11	Phrygian Gates: Part 3	7:31

News & Reviews

Friday, July 16, 2010

Huffington Post: John Adams's Music a Perfect Fit for "I Am Love"

The new film I Am Love, featuring the music of John Adams, has now opened in movie theaters across the US, with still more to be added in the coming weeks. The Huffington Post says that wonderful as it is, what "was truly powerful was the music used in the film." The Arts Desk calls the soundtrack album "an excellent single CD introduction to one of our greatest modern composers," complete with "impulsive, inventive and melodically rich post-systems gems."
Friday, July 9, 2010

NPR: John Adams Adds "Richly Textured" Soundtrack to "I Am Love"

The film I Am Love features the music of John Adams, which plays an important role in the "sumptuous, operatic, and swooning" film, says NPR's Fresh Air. Director Luca Guadagnino "suffuses everything with beauty, be it Yorick Le Saux's fluid cinematography, the richly textured music by John Adams or the outfits especially designed for Swinton by Jil Sander and Fendi." Variety features an article about the director's love of Adams's music. The Epoch Times praises the soundtrack as a "collection of some powerful music by an important voice in American music."

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About this Album

The New York Times praised the “freewheeling violin and piano work” of Adams’s “traveling music.” The Oakland Tribune says the other piano-based pieces collected here “thrillingly exhibit the kinetic rhythmic excitement that always placed Adams above the so-called minimalists.”

Credits

MUSICIANS
Leila Josefowicz, violin (1-3)
John Novacek, piano (1-3)
Nicolas Hodges, piano (4-8)
Rolf Hind, piano (4-6, 9-11)

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman
Road Movies recorded September 2, 2002, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
Engineered by Judith Sherman
Assistant Engineers: Hsi-Ling Chang
Editing assistant: Jeanne Velonis
All other pieces recorded July 28-29, 2003, at Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London
Engineered by Geoff Foster
Assistant Engineers: Chris Barrett
Mastered by Judith Sherman
Piano Rental: Mary Schwendeman (New York) / Steinway & Sons (London)
Leila Josefowicz appears courtesy of Philips Classics.

Design by John Gall
Cover photograph by Deborah O’Grady

Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz