Young Adelaide percussionist Nicholas Parnell delivers a tour-de-force of percussion skill and technique, exploding with infectious rhythms and kaleidoscopic colours in this, his debut CD.A program of percussion music which impresses with its musicality and tunefulness is refreshing. We are accustomed to associating percussion with qualities of explosiveness and rhythmic force, and indeed these are the qualities for which percussion has mostly been utilised in western music, the splash of cymbals and the thwack of the bass drum adding grunt to orchestral textures.This album features works by a range of composers, most notably, three works by leading Japanese percussionist Keiko Abe. This is a colourful and exciting array of music.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. KEIKO ABE: Tambourin Paraphrase
2. KEIKO ABE: Wind Across the Mountains
3. ISAAC ALBENIZ: Asturias
4. MATTHIAS SCHMITT: Ghanaia
5. NEBOJSA JOVAN ZIVKOVIC: Generally Spoken It's Nothing But Rhythm, Op. 21 (I)
6. NEBOJSA JOVAN ZIVKOVIC: Generally Spoken It's Nothing But Rhythm, Op. 21 (II)
7. NEBOJSA JOVAN ZIVKOVIC: Generally Spoken It's Nothing But Rhythm, Op. 21 (III)
8. KEIKO ABE: Wind in the Bamboo Grove
9. NEY ROSAURO: Rhapsody (I - Molto Lento)
10. NEY ROSAURO: Rhapsody (II - Allegro)
11. NEY ROSAURO: Rhapsody (III - Vivo)
12. NEY ROSAURO: Rhapsody (IV - Meno Mosso)