Rick Cox (1952)
All the While Toward Us
Maria Falling Away
Beige 2
The Years in Streams
Long Distance
All the While Toward Us II

Rick Cox, Jon Hassell, Thomas Newman, Chas Smith, Jeff Elmassian

Six elegant, dark, sensuous soundscapes in which emotions seem to bubble just below cool surfaces. Much of this harmonically rich and texturally subtle music features composer/performer Rick Cox‘s innovative and idiosyncratic electric guitar playing techniques (which include the use of preparations and unusual objects setting the strings in motion). Other performers joining him on this CD are celebrated composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell, popular film composer Thomas Newman (piano), and composer/performer/instrument designer Chas Smith (pedal steel guitar). [CD and folder in jewel case]