REVIEWS OF CONCERTS AND RECORDINGS
BY FRANK PERRY.
"A master, with a true understanding of sound."
Richard Williams (Melody Maker)
"The brilliant percussionist Frank Perry has recorded a
meditative album of improvisation, predominantly for bells and gongs (Deep
Peace), an experience as therapeutic as it is musically rich, and played
in a manner so respectful of sound that your hearing becomes instantly more
discriminating."
John Fordham,
The Guardian. 9.7.198
"This strong and beautiful music is produced by many
varieties of bells and gongs, but with no electronics. The title of the music
has been taken from an old Gaelic prayer." DEEP PEACE
"The composer's own mystical experience of an angelic visitation
inspired him to write this unique music, for "petalumines", or bells
of metal invented by Mr. Perry. The piece is very spatial and expands the
consciousness. NEW ATLANTIS.
"These zodiacal pieces were inspired by the Himalayan paintings of
Nicholas Roerich. Oriental bells, gongs and Tibetan ‘singing bowls’
contribute to the variety of sounds. This is a rare experience that clears and
heightens the consciousness." ZODIAC.
All taken from Hal Lingerman's
book Lifestreams.
"A percussionist’s abandonment of the simple metronomic duties
(basic time-keeping) need not lead to a formless rattle around the tom-toms,
as these two albums so clearly demonstrate. Frank Perry and roger turner
concern themselves with the tonal possibilities of percussion, both having
dispensed with the formalities of conventional kit. Beyond this, there are no
similarities in approach. Perry boasts a vast array of metal and glass
percussion, both ancient and custom-made, with the capacity for long
resonance. He has developed an interest in meditational music, the products of
which have sounded uncomfortable in the confines of group performance (in the
jazz and improvised music circles) thus this solo album is long overdue. ‘Deep
Peace’ is a formidable achievement, the product of a unique vision.
Perry slowly develops a labyrinth of sound, which, although improvised, has a
strong sense of direction. At times it is difficult to believe that so much
tonal diversity can be coaxed from such limited means. Utilising a range of
metal and glass percussion, he builds on their natural resonance to create a
music of serene beauty and power, sounds humming into infinity and building
into neo-choral sequences. Highly recommended."
City Limits. Dave Illic.
"His music is very unlike anything else that is
available on the New Age music scene. Frank Perry is the original New Age
musician."
Roy Whenary (Dawn Awakening
Music) on ‘The Works’ BBC Radio 4
"Whilst most music reaches obviously for our emotions, the music
of Frank Perry reaches for our subconscious in an effort to heal us."
Toyah Wilcox (interviewing
Frank) for BBC Radio 4 series "The science of sound."
“It was an unusual night at London’s Wigmore Hall. But
then the Wigmore Hall is an unusual place. Looking more like a luxurious
funeral parlour than a concert auditorium. Large vases of flowers flanked the
stage.
It was in this slightly grim setting that Music Now presented a fine
concert, the first time that the Wigmore Has opened its doors to improvised
music. Yet somehow the formality of the place ill-suited the warmth of the
sounds created by Frank Perry’s solo percussion.
Perry began the show, obscured as ever by a massive frame hung with
literally hundreds of gongs, cymbals, bells, brandy glasses, African drums,
pieces of scrap metal, and somewhere in the middle of it all, a drum kit.
Perry more than any other percussionist I’ve ever heard, has a really
profound understanding of sound, obviously conscious of the importance and use
of so-called silence.
If anything, when Perry plays is closer to John Cage indeterminate
music than it is to “jazz”. In the course of a one-hour continuum, there
were probably as many moments when Perry wasn’t striking anything as when he
was. But rather than doing the Ornette Coleman thing of counterpointing
silence with explosive noise, Perry’s approach was to bring the volume level
right down, so that at times it was difficult to distinguish between sound and
the absence of sound.
And hearing the fragile beauty of these textures made the thought of
heavy 4/4 drumming seem suddenly obscene”.
Steve Lake Melody
Maker 15 – 12 – 1973 reviewing Wigmore Hall concert.
"The genius of esoteric sound has created a miracle."
Dave Lawrence, manager Nada
Records review of DEEP PEACE.
"This record is a long awaited recording of the
meditative percussion music of Frank Perry, whose musical equipment consists
of 400-year old Zen Buddhist Densho bells, Ming dynasty Chinese temple bell,
various Kyeezees (Burmese meditation gongs, none less than 50 years old),
Japanese and Chinese bell trees, Chinese Buddha gongs, Burmese chime bowls,
Chinese gongs, Paiste orchestral tuned gongs and symphonic gongs, Paiste
sound-plates and sound-discs, Tibetan, Indian, Swiss, Japanese and Chinese
bells, Tibetan invocation cymbals and meditation cymbals. Quite an array!
It is impossible to do justice to this 'music for meditation' through
words, for the experience is in the music itself. Suffice it to say, that on
hearing 'Deep Peace’, it is as if the whole world, and not just the
human ear, stops to listen and comes alive to its subtle vibrations. The
music conveys the experience of another dimension of reality hidden beyond ‘outer’
form, so that the vibrations of its sound resonate with and invoke a response
from the natural vibrations that live around us - the music of the spheres. In
the LP’s accompanying booklet, Frank Perry states that “…the Sun and
Moon principles, which form the basis of this work, are each dependent one
upon the other in their inseparability; being here representative of the
Eucharistic Christian Sacraments.”
The cover of the record depicts a beautiful mandala by Frank,
representing the planet Jupiter and the title is taken from an old Gaelic
prayer: “Deep peace of the running wave to you. Deep peace of the flowing
air to you. Deep peace of the quiet earth to you. Deep peace of the shining
stars to you. Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.”
So wrote Bill Anderton (editor) Solunar (Mind,
Body & Spirit magazine)
"The sounds and the music on this record are quite simply,
staggering. It's not so much what you actually hear in it, as how over and
above that it genuinely communicates a sensation of immense space and, yes, of
peace through sharing and listening.
Frank Perry is a percussionist who for many years has worked outside
any mainstream idea of drumming and percussion. He has long been more
interested in the spiritual and mystical aspects of sound, reaching back to a
way in which music played a role in religion now virtually buried in the West.
This is a long way from Sixties spaced-out music - listen to the record
and it is clear that Frank Perry has been on some long deep journeys and has
thought through exactly what the sounds mean to him and how he wants to make
music with them.
He builds up sound with a wide range of bells, gongs, chime bowls,
glass bowls, Tibetan invocation and meditation cymbals and his own home-made
discs. It is not so much drumming as calling a sound from one of these
surfaces - either deep and dark or ethereally high and thin.
Each succeeding sound, bowed or struck, exists both as a single
isolated action and also in relation to what has come into being, so that each
newborn sound stands stark for a moment and then melts into an eerie mass of
sound motion.
Frank Perry has spent many years finding out about how sounds can
induce or represent deep states of consciousness - this record is a result of
some of these years. The music is close to the feel of Tibetan music or any of
the ceremonial music heard from the East and it too has the sense of healing
of which music should have.
The most fantastic thing about this music is that it makes no demands,
except to slow down and accept patterns of openness and beauty. It is an
invitation - unspoken, unforceful - to one individual's vision and his
spontaneous improvising with the material he has gathered.
Try it - there are not many chances like this one."
Hannah Charlton (Melody
Maker review of DEEP PEACE. 23.5.1981.
"The music of percussionist Frank Perry is a prime
example of meaningful experience through art. His recording of MUSIC FOR
MEDITATION is of two compositions, "MOUNTAIN SUNRISE and COMMUNITY: I
AM IN YOUR HEART”, that are played on gongs, bells, chimes, bowls, pipes and
many other unusual percussive instruments. The emphasis of this music is on
the sound, in the same way that the emphasis of a mantra is on its sound and
not necessarily its content. This recording is more than a mantra for
meditation however, as the compositions have definite structure and symbolic
meaning within the structure. These pieces are music that not only consists of
individual vibrations of great beauty, depth and invocative power, but there
is also a completeness in each work that is a reflection of the relationship
between microcosm (each individual sound) and macrocosm (the complete work).
It takes Frank two hours to set up his percussion, which rather limits the
venues at which he can play. But to produce a single tone from a bell or gong
in which can be heard the song of orchestras and celestial choirs is the
reward that emanates from the source of this music to both musician and
listener."
Bill Anderton (editor) for New
Life magazine Volume 1, No. 2 July/August 1977.
Haunting, otherworldly, evanescent, ethereal; any attempt
to describe the experience of this album exposes the limits of my vocabulary.
Frank Perry improvises upon a symphonic array of Eastern bells, gongs, and
glass bowls to create a work of eerie tranquillity and breathtaking harmonic
richness. Compositionally, this album is more satisfying than Henry Wolff and
Nancy Hennings' comparable work with Tibetan bells - in a very real sense one
is drawn into an internal journey. No piece of music since Fripp and Eno's
"An Index of Metals" has had such a profound consciousness-altering
effect upon me."
Michael Draine OP magazine US
review for DEEP PEACE July/August 1983.
"Perry boasts a vast array of metal and glass percussion, both
ancient and custom-made, with the capacity for long resonance. He has
developed an interest in meditational music, the products of which have
sounded uncomfortable in the confines of group performance (in the jazz and
improvised music circles) thus this solo album is long overdue. "Deep
Peace" is a formidable achievement, the product of a unique
vision. Perry slowly develops a labyrinth of sound which, although improvised,
has a strong sense of direction. At times it is difficult to believe that so
much tonal diversity can be created from such limited means."
David Illic for City
Limits 5-11-1981.
"Improvised music often takes on a nervous, hyperactive
style that appeals to people of similar disposition. The music of Frank
Perry, an ingenious if somewhat fey percussionist who emerged in the
late-hippie era, is now refined to such a degree that he is content simply to
strike his specially constructed gongs ("Petalumines") every few
minutes and let their glowing resonances vibrate on and on. Not exactly
action-packed, of course, but if you have the patience Perry's true
musicianship is abundantly clear - he cherishes and appreciates beautiful
sounds."
John Fordham review of
"NEW ATLANTIS" for the Guardian.
Deep Peace consists of two
long tracks, Deep Peace of the Flowing Air to You and Deep
Peace of the Son of Peace to You, which sound like the result
of many hours of meditation. Side one commences with a sustained frequency,
which has a very healing quality. Gradually other sounds are brought into
play, forming a sonic interface of vibrating metal and glass, slowly changing.
A good accompaniment to watching the clouds float by in the sky or any similar
activity!"
Review from One Earth magazine (Findhorn community August '81).
"Over the years Frank Perry has collected a percussion kit of
gongs, bells, cymbals and drums from all over the world; he has added to it
instruments of his own devising. To see this kit delights the eye; to hear
Frank Perry play it refreshes the soul.
For this work he uses only bells, gongs, cymbals and sound plates,
mainly of Tibetan and oriental origin. One of them is 400 years old and
several are over fifty years old.
His music has developed as an expression of his own meditation; to
listen to "Deep Peace" is to share his meditation.
The resonances of a great Japanese gong are gradually built up until
the vibrations capture and still the mind, holding it caught in a shining
moment: delicate small bells dance across this web of sound: the mellow sound
of softly struck cymbals and the clear bright notes of small hand gongs and
bells in metal and glass weave in and out of the underlying shifting, ebbing,
flowing resonances. The recording is as superb as the playing.
Simply to sit and relax to this music will indeed bring Deep Peace to
those who are fraught or weary; as an adjunct to meditation, it aids the
development of the true meditational state, helping one to transcend the
everyday state of consciousness. Its effect in group meditation is profound.
The disc is accompanied by a 2,000-word article by Frank about the
spiritual inspiration of the music and describing some of the instruments used
in it."
Jean Williams for Aquarian
Arrow No. 11 Summer Quarter.
DEEP PEACE is a solo album by Frank Perry; a percussionist devoted
to a contemplative, visionary lifestyle who constructs complex sound textures
that function on many levels of existence and perception. This Album is very
well recorded, and captures the sonic microstructure of Frank’s work.
Frank's record, and his masterly weaving of sound textures elicited from his
array of metallic percussion instruments deserves more analysis than I have
time or space for at present."
Paul Burwell for Performance magazine June/July '81.
"Many members of the London Lodge and at New Lands will already have had
the opportunity of listening to Frank's unique music at one of the concerts he
has given in the Lodge. But now many more have the opportunity to hear his
deeply inspiring music played on his own carefully built-up collection of
instruments. These include 400 year old Zen Buddhist Densho bells, a Ming
dynasty Chinese temple bell, Burmese meditation gongs, Tibetan invocation
cymbals and many other bells and gongs.
He takes the title of his record (the music on the record is all
improvised, in response to the attunement with the divine Source and all
sound), and Frank takes his title from a Gaelic Prayer, familiar to many:
Deep Peace of the running wave to you
Deep Peace of the flowing air to you
Deep Peace of the quiet earth to you
Deep Peace of the shining star to you
Deep Peace of the Son of Peace to you.
This quality of peace certainly enfolds the listener, who is taken on
an inward journey towards the centre of all life and peace, becoming more and
more attuned to the great sound, the OM, the common denominator within all
life.
For those who can respond to this unique music, this record will be an
invaluable aid to meditation, and is highly recommended for Frank's own
dedication illumines every sound, drawing forth an answering note of response
in the listener's heart. He has been a student of White Eagle's teaching for
many years and is dedicated to the brotherhood work."
Jenny Dent for the White Eagle magazine Stella Polaris.
"Frank Perry is at the very forefront of exploration using
such sounds."
Composer Lawrence Ball
for Index of Musicians.
"And Perry makes the overtones and harmonics of bells and gongs
hang in the air like smoke rings.......Perry's work is tranquil and spacious
as meditation, and with as much of an inclination to magnify the minutest
details of sound."
John Fordham, TIME
OUT magazine.
"The most beautiful sound-structure I've ever seen. A kind of
pulpit formed by metal frames hung with dusky bronze, brass and silver
instruments. His improvisation is not the amazing kind, it has no spontaneous
extravagances neither is it whimsical. Whilst long-term timing is easy going,
short-term timing is delicately managed. Perry builds up a texture with a few
carefully matched sounds and the odd repeated pattern, then leaves it for
another."
Adrian Jack for Music and
Musicians.
"His solo performance at the Arts Centre was a spellbinding event.
He was surrounded by an awesome collection of various bells, gongs and other
non-membrane percussion instruments from which he coaxed eerily beautiful
sounds. The gentle, hypnotic nature of the music was a perfect reflection of
Perry's own spiritual philosophy."
The Cornishman. Performance.
"He is the only truly melodic and harmonic percussionist I've ever
heard. I must admit I think there's a touch of genius about him."
Keith Tippett (jazz
composer/pianist) Hampstead & Highgate Express.
Dave Gelly, for New Music
Express says: "Frank Perry is a master at juxtaposing small,
frail sounds which have you straining to catch their subtle nuances."
Review for album Ovary Lodge (RCA/VICTOR) and especially for
Perry's solo piece.
"Coaxing ethereal sounds from ancient bells, gongs, chimes
and bowls, Frank Perry is not so much a musician - more an explorer."
David Haith Bournemouth
Advertiser.
"Amid the hustle and bustle of the Mind and Body exhibition at
Olympia in 1977, I came across an oasis of peace and stillness; Frank Perry
was using his vast array of percussion to create an atmosphere of
contemplation, and I found that I was able to stand quietly and let the noise
of the rest of the exhibition fade into the background. This was the start of
my interest in Frank Perry's music.
Frank Perry's music is delicate, and with a wide range of tonal
quality, the sounds being allowed their own time and space. This is music that
requires the listener to allow time; time for the music to speak.
Music has as many frontiers as there are musicians and listeners; it is
thanks to musicians like Frank Perry - who pursue a specific, but often
changing goal, doing their best to prevent pressures from diluting the quality
of their effort - that music which is less obvious, less immediate, is able to
grow and flower."
Eddie Franklin-White
for Sounds International magazine.
"His motivations are different from those who make
music for the sake of making music. He is more like a monk singing plainsong,
for whom the music and the worship are intertwined. He is psychic. "Like
me, my father was a trance medium, and at the age of 16 I started doing
portraits of people in the other world and gave them away to people whose
spirit guides they were. I had started to play drums, and immediately these
experiences took place, they transformed my music. I had to find new bottles
for new wine."
The new bottles took the form of solo
performances in which the notes struck bear a complex relationship with the
Theosophical and Rosicrucian beliefs which he holds. Spelling this out to an outsider is rather like explaining the
details of the Trinity to someone who has never heard of Christ; it is
something to do with the seven globes of existence corresponding to the seven
octaves of the piano, and with representing colours by sounds. All of this is
not, to put it mildly, along orthodox lines as laid down by the Royal College
of Music; for a start, one of his helpers in his music has been a "Shamanistic
Tibetan who lived on earth several thousands of years before Buddhism came to
Tibet."
Jonathan Sale for The Guardian.
"Frank
Perry's tapes are all very unique. They are unique chiefly because they
entirely bypass normal musical considerations as they are aimed at the
meditator, and not the prerequisites of the commercial market. Anyone who has
seen Frank Perry's percussion kit, which is more complex than anything else I
have ever seen, and includes dozens of bells, gongs, glasses, bowls,
windchimes, and things whose names defy easy recognition, such as Petalumines,
Ufoms and Nectarine, Planicervs, really cannot fail to be impressed, if not
totally intrigued. His music, or sounds, are highly evocative, and are
reminiscent of nothing else on Earth - except, perhaps, esoteric Tibetan
Temple Music, which of old was used to induce very deep and lasting trance
states, leading to initiation. The effect of his music is both unbelievably
ancient as well as futuristic, and can only be said to depict other states of
reality and other levels of consciousness. The sounds are also unbelievably
pure. Recorded at the White Eagle Temple at Liss. Listening to these tapes one
doesn't get all excited, nor does one dance up and down - that's not what they
are about at all. One listens, one meditates, and one allows oneself to be
transported beyond the normal confines of time and space, while opening one's
consciousness to the Spirit. Frank Perry is a pioneer into dimensional
realities which have not yet been explored by contemporary music, and in that
he stands alone."
Vee Van Dam (editor) Spiral magazine.
"Anyone lucky enough to have heard Frank Perry chanting or playing
his singing bowls, gongs and many other unusual instruments will know that
they have listened to a master of the art."
Editor
for FOUNTAIN magazine.
"I have listened to several records like this one. There is no
melody, no chords, no apparent rhythm, very little happening - just stillness
and sounds. How to judge if not by feeling! I enjoyed it. Some gong and bowl
albums are simply off. This one is not. Long tracks and quite a few surprises.
Music for meditation. Sounds that sometimes go to the edge of our hearing
habits - they are meant to. Quite an interesting sound trip."
Daniel Perret for KINDRED
SPIRIT magazine reviewing BELOVODYE . Volume 1. (The
Illumined Road).
"Frank Perry's offering is a slow-moving album full
of shifting sounds, mostly the resonances of gongs, singing bowl, Chinese
Buddha bells and Noah bells. Perry uses these instruments to open a gate to a
world of stillness beyond the transience of time, but always alive with the
drama of each moment. A masterful album."
Brian Lee for i to i
magazine. Jan/March '94. Belovodye.
"Why is it percussionists are producing the most radical
re-evaluation of sound? A couple of months ago we had what I regarded as the
most interesting album of the year - Mickey Hart's Planet
Drum in which the Grateful Dead drummer gathered together distinguished
colleagues from different cultures to produce a fascinatingly varied and
exciting all-percussion album. Now that has been topped by a solo album from
the British musician Frank Perry. I was going to call him a percussionist but
that would give a completely wrong impression because Frank creates a totally
absorbing universe of sound that extends far beyond the idea of the percussive
and plugs your imagination directly into his. If ordinary music is like
painting, then this is sculpture. Frank's music is created in part from an
immense number of gongs, whose sonic richness does for me what Keanu Reeves
does for young women, Tibetan bowls whose clarity creates a sound you seem to
be able to walk right into, and other vibrational exotica. As a composer - for
this music, though improvised, is very structured - Frank Perry must rate as
one of the most original of the later 20thC, for he has developed a coherent
language of rhythm and pitch based not on metrical parameters but on the
organic value of the sounds themselves. That may seem a rather daunting
description set down in cold print. But experience it for yourself: this
record shares that unique property of truly great art of communicating both on
a very direct emotional level but of reserving an esoteric depth, for those
who care to apply their minds as well as their senses. We are told that Belovodye,
'the land of White Waters' is the Russian equivalent of Shambhala, the
mythical kingdom of the spirit. This is the first part of a two disc set which
represents a journey from the world of the senses to the mystic perceptions of
inner consciousness and is in part inspired by the paintings of Nicholas
Roerich. I know that practically every New Age album promises you this trip,
so the claim is a little devalued, but the difference, my friends, is that
this one delivers."
Mike Steer (editor)
for Catalyst reviewing Belovodye.
"Frank Perry is one of Britain's most prominent
composers and percussionists. His sonic textures are exquisitely subtle,
psychically potent, deeply contemplative and, above all, extraordinarily
beautiful. This album ZODIAC is music to awaken one's deepest and
highest universal consciousness, based upon pulsating, intertwining harmonic
overtones - the result; sheer aesthetic indulgence! Meditative
masterpieces."
Mantra Music.
"The British composer Frank Perry, also from a jazz
background, has similarly abandoned the intellectual musical traditions of the
West and has found his music through his response to the sheer sound quality
of the instruments he uses: gongs, bells and singing bowls, in fact all manner
of sacred percussion. Although his music is typically still, allowing the
sound of each instrument to speak and to resonate in its own time, it has a
fiery quality, perhaps coming from the birth of the metal. It is through this
tension of fire and stillness that a space is created which allows the deepest
meditation states to be reached.
Frank's latest album on the Isis label BELOVODYE - LAND OF WHITE
WATERS is space music, inner space that is, transporting the listener to a
peaceful realm of truth and goodwill, Belovodye, the Russian version of the
mythical land of Shambhala. Also now available is Frank's earlier album ZODIAC
which is a depiction in an astonishing range of the energy of each of the
twelve astrological signs.
With the music of Frank Perry we are at last approaching a sense of the
music as a universal language that relates beyond culture and musical style to
something deeper. For although all the streams of western music - classical,
rock and jazz - have responded to the influence of the music of other
cultures, jazz maybe, being music improvised from the quality of the moment,
is the form best fitted to allow the listener space for their own journey to
inner stillness."
Brian Lee for CADUCEUS
magazine Issue 23 Sound Healing.
"Frank Perry raised the vibrations to even greater heights during
his demonstration of Tibetan Singing Bowls and lecture on "Sound, Healing
& Meditation" the meditation at the end of this talk was both
powerful and revitalising."
Pam Collard, organiser for
Salisbury Festival of Light on World Healing Day, reviewing the Day.
"Tibetan bowls and a choir of bells - with Frank Perry; a
rare and special experience of touch, meditation and sensitive co-operation
with an acknowledged master."
Review of workshop at Gaunts House.
"But of course not all free music inclines to the explosive and
the chaotic, and, though both play under the vague umbrella of the free style
(in fact there’s no such thing, “free” has more to do with attitudes
than individual techniques), I doubt that there’re two drummers on the
planet as different as Han Bennink and Frank Perry.
In Perry’s world there appear to be no approximations. If the kits
played by Bennink and Lytton sometimes appear to be almost random heaps of
scrap metal, Perry’s looks more like a Christmas tree or some delicate
oriental sculpture. It takes a couple of hours to assemble, moreover, being
pieced together from literally hundreds of percussion instruments, ranging
from Chinese drums and tambours up to rows of suspended brandy glasses and
finger cymbals.
Perry, incidentally, believes (wait for it) that his body is
intermittently controlled by other-world entities who are attempting to bring
their message to Earth through his music. Apparently, he also enlists the aid
of a Tibetan lama from the spirit world who guides him in his choice of
instruments.
Whatever these beliefs give Perry’s music religious (some might say
pseudo-religious) connotations. His sound has a meditative poise and
tranquillity.”
Steve Lake for Melody
Maker Jan 1977.
“His solo gigs can be like the crystallisation of all the natural
sounds you've ever heard...the sounds that he draws often seem to have more in
common with the meditational bells of Tibet, or the ethereal time-suspending
qualities of the Balinese Gamelan."
Steve Lake for Melody
Maker.
"I had not heard this music until I was asked to write this article. A copy arrived at a time my partner and I had put aside for meditation and study. So, without reading the liner notes other than to observe that it was connected with a journey, we played it, sitting by the light of one candle. The first impression on us both was that Track One related to so much of Frank's previous music which we know and love; the floating bells, the spaces the 'hanging' near silences: however from Track Two onwards ('A higher way opened') there is an almost Wagnerian richness with voice and percussion some of which I find on the edge of uncomfortable. This is most assuredly not a veiled criticism; for me that arts are at least in part about keeping our perceptual nerve ends alive; part of a 'cutting edge.'"
Eddie Franklin,
for Contemporary Music Review.
"Frank Perry, an accomplished performer on resonant metal instruments, performed with centred conviction on Tibetan singing bowls, including overtone chanting. He then presented Hovhaness' 11th Symphony All Men Are Brothers as accompaniment to paint