Phil Kline Daze DVD Praised at New York Times, Stereophile, New York Magazine

New Music Reviews provides a rehash of a few reviews of the latest Phil Kline release.

The New York Times, Stereophile, New York Magazine, WNYC, and others have recently praised Phil Kline’s Around the World in a Daze (http://www.starkland.com/s2015/index.htm), a surround sound DVD released by Starkland.

In his New York Times review (http://starkland.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-york-times-reviews-starklands-daze.html), critic Allan Kozinn notes, “Mr. Kline, the electronic experimenter who deploys fleets of boomboxes to achieve his preferred textures, is hard at work.” He writes “the best pieces” include Pennies from Heaven, “an 18-minute tapestry of tactile, bell-like timbres and descending scales,” along with The Maryland Sample, “an appealingly harmonized vocal setting,” and Svarga Yatra, a “meditative string quartet score, played with an ethereal, plush tone by Ethel, that catches the ear.”

Stereophile’s Kal Rubinson also enthusiastically reviews Daze (http://starkland.blogspot.com/2009/06/stereophile-reviews-phil-kline-dvd.html). The “ear-opening adventures” range “widely from ambient recordings that are surprisingly musical, to complex constructions that emerge as lyrical.” Rubinson adds the Extras DVD contains “a fascinating interview with Kline.”