Like a musical chameleon, Kramer completely shed his pop/indie skin for his next two solo releases, which were both commissioned by John Zorn for his new Tzadik label.
Coming first in 1998 (& featuring the extraordinary contributions of violist Deni Bonet) Let Me Explain Something to You About Art comprises three compositions that take the listener deep into a Proustian world of memory, loss, & longing. A wholly unsentimental meditation on aging & an imaginary soundtrack for the dying, it is quite possibly Kramer's most emotional work; an internal journey that begins in a world we all recognize as our own but ends in a Kubrickian landscape as alien to us as the final scenes of 2001; A Space Odyssey.
John Zorn stated, "Kramer has now come into his own as a composer."
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Umberto D
Odds Against Tomorrow
Jupiter & the Infinite
Next are the Greenberg variations.
Enjoy,
NØ
note: Anyone following these latest ramblings might want to hear The Fugs with Kramer on bass. You can pick up a great one: The Fugs - Songs from a Portable Forest over at Zero G Sound. If you do, tell’em Nathan sent you.
NØ
Let Me Explain Something to You About Art
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