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FLAMMABLE COUNTERPOINT

by Gary Lloyd Noland

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    CD Album of twelve works by composer Gary Lloyd Noland performed by the Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble (a one-man-band consisting of the composer and his five alter-egos: Orlan Doy Glandly, Darnold Olly Yang, Lon Gaylord Dylan, Dolly Gray Landon, and Arnold Day Longly). Total Timing: 71:14.

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    Gary Lloyd Noland – Flammable Counterpoint

    Evolution Music Press
    Reviewed by: Lee Callaghan
    January 2, 2022
    Titled Flammable Counterpoint: a Pandora’s Tinderbox of Tickletunes Op. 126, composer, songwriter Gary Lloyd Noland takes his audience on a trip into the weird, eerie, eccentric. This twelve-song full-length release features the many alter egos of this mysterious performer as he blurs the line between popular music, art, and the strange. Together with these five alter egos, Gary Lloyd Noland presents the Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble, and although that surely is a mouthful, when referring to the album credits each named musician plays their own unique instrument; the Belly Button cymbals, the Nerdy Gurdy, the Yo-Yo-Boe, and the Nose Fiddle to name just a small fraction of the sounds in store for unsuspecting listeners. OK, now bear with me, if you feel I am making fun of this, I am merely painting a portrait with words what this collection of sounds makes which truly is hard to describe. I am left mesmerized and curious at the fact that this album is surprisingly satisfying and refreshing, yet I am challenged to try and put a finger on just what I am witnessing.
    The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble opens with a Christmas tune, which for a pop album is almost unheard of. The track, Xmas Holiday Memento From Old Salzburg, opens with a familiar melody reminiscent of Carol of the Bells, yet quickly takes a sharp left and heads down the rabbit hole as it explores the bells theme while introducing beautiful piano melodies coupled with penny whistles and, is that a woodpecker? This artistic, bohemian approach to the motif of Christmas puts the listener in a light- hearted mood to be ready to undertake the journey Gary Lloyd Noland is about to take us on.
    A contrast to the seriousness of today's climate of the pandemic is explored and put into retrospect with the track, Biennial COVID Gala, a jazzy panorama that almost takes you inside the virus and offers a view from its perspective. Although this is my interpretation from this track, the piano coupled with the assortment of peculiar and curious musical droppings of sounds paints imagery of a terrible entity wreaking havoc in its wake but doing it in an unbeknown manner which seems silly and humorous all the same. The siren setting up the recapitulation really adds flavor to this track as it points to the danger and tension of this dance we are all taking. The Gala features everyone, or is the Gala in our bodies as we speak right now?
    Of all these wonderful and magically outlandish tracks, my pick for the highlight piece is the title track, Flammable Counterpoint. This track revolves around a piano dissonance that strikes a revolutionary tone. The odd-time signatures employed throughout this track and the syncopated rhythms which fall just off the downbeat give this track a Stravinsky-like quality which demands the listener to take this with more than a light-hearted approach. This track encapsulates the theme of the entire Flammable Counterpoint: a Pandora’s Tinderbox of Tickletunes Op. 126 album, a counterpoint to traditional music and pop melodies. An antithesis of modern commercialism and political thought. This track captures the non- conformist mentality and blends it with a beatnik culture shock which is truly magic.
    Although reviewing all twelve tracks of Flammable Counterpoint: a Pandora’s Tinderbox of Tickletunes Op. 126 is outside the scope of this review, other highlight tracks are; Douchonaires in Space, Tardigrade Goofaloofs, and the morose sounding, ironically comical Ice Cream Crucifixion. This album left me with
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    Gary Lloyd Noland – Flammable Counterpoint Evolution Music Press
    more questions than answers, more curious than satisfied, and more perplexed by our current state of the world than convinced we are going to be OK. Flammable Counterpoint: a Pandora’s Tinderbox of Tickletunes Op. 126 is an experimental Jazz album at its core, yet it offers just a little bit more. As Gary Lloyd Noland describes the offering as; “A Capricious Cycle of Twelve Dynamic Tone Ditties from a New- Sprung Can of Earworms”, I think it’s alright to be a bit confused, it feels good actually. Although, on the surface, this may not be an album to take very seriously by its very nature, perhaps that would be foolish. There are hidden metaphors interlaced within the chaotic anarchy of musical expression, and rich, dynamic imagery cast by its very existence. This is certainly not an album I ever thought I would want, but as we travel through the chaos which is today’s world, Flammable Counterpoint: a Pandora’s Tinderbox of Tickletunes Op. 126 is an album to help guide us out of it alive.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of DREAD MEETS DESIRE, Part Four, Op. 152, No. 4, INADVERTING VOYEURISMS, Confuzzle Box, DISSONAPHOBIC FEVER DREAMS, ENTROPIC ABANDON, 17 MUSICOSYNCRATIC QUIRKS, CROTCHETS, MAGGOTS & MOOD SLIDES from HERR DOKTOR SQUIRCLE'S INEXTRICABLE "NEW PERPLEXITY" Op. 127, HERR DOKTOR SQUIRCLE'S EXTRATERRESTRIAL EAR-BLEACHING AGENTS FOR MUSICAL CEREBS, FLAMMABLE COUNTERPOINT, and 25 more. , and , .

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1.
Xmas Holiday Memento from Old Salzburg
2.
Flammable Counterpoint
3.
Rudenoxious Interruptions
4.
Douchonaires in Space
5.
Parting Regrets
6.
Teeny Tiny Toilet Boy Brings Home Bacon from the Big Bad Zoocus Berserkus
7.
Herr Doktor Squircle's Existential Casserole
8.
Biennial COVID Gala
9.
Tardigrade Goofaloofs
10.
Macho Nerdismo
11.
Ice Cream Crucifixion
12.
Perforated Smuggards

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FLAMMABLE COUNTERPOINT (Op. 126) consists of twelve individual pieces, two of which are festive in character. XMAS HOLIDAY MEMENTO FROM OLD SALZBURG (No. 1) was composed exactly fifty years after Noland spent his Christmas holiday in Salzburg in 1971. The then fourteen-year old composer-to-be was en route to Vienna from Garmisch-Partenkirchen but didn’t make it to Vienna at the time on account of having come down with a bad case of the flu while in Salzburg. Noland lived in Salzburg for many months as an adolescent and even attended school there for a while. This piece attempts to catch the spiritual essence of the town (birthplace of Mozart) and may be viewed as a sort of musical Xmas postcard. Thus far, the better part of those who have listened to this work and spent time in Salzburg have agreed that it evokes the distinctive ambience of the town. While there has been little cause for celebration in the two years following the initial outbreak of COVID-19, Noland’s BIENNIAL COVID GALA (No. 8) was composed just a few days prior to New Year’s Day 2022 (almost exactly two years following the first reported outbreaks of COVID-19 in China in December, 2019) and, for lack of anything else to celebrate (especially in light of skyrocketing numbers of fresh new COVID cases and accelerated climate disasters worldwide), the composer felt it necessary to go through the motions of pretending to celebrate, even if by only bearing an ironic grimace on his otherwise crooked countenance, inasmuch as a forced unnatural smile is preferable to none at all.…

GARY LLOYD NOLAND was born in Seattle in 1957 and grew up on a plot of land three blocks south of UC Berkeley known as People’s Park, which has distinguished itself as a site of civil unrest since the late 1960s. As an adolescent, Noland lived for a time in Salzburg and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (home of Richard Strauss), where he absorbed a host of musical influences. Having studied with a long roster of acclaimed composers and musicians, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music from UC Berkeley in 1979, continued his studies at the Boston Conservatory (1981-83), and transferred to Harvard University, where he added to his academic credits a Masters and a PhD in Music Composition in 1989. His ever-expanding catalogue consists of hundreds of works, which include piano, vocal, chamber, orchestral, experimental, and electronic pieces, full-length plays in verse, chamber novels, and graphically notated scores such as his comic book opera Café Ritardando (Op. 89). His critically acclaimed, award-winning 77-hour long Gesamtkunstwerk JAGDLIED: A Chamber Novel for Narrator, Musicians, Pantomimists, Dancers & Culinary Artists (Op. 20) was listed by one reviewer as the Number One Book of 2018. In recent months (Autumn, 2021) Noland published three volumes of his compositions (COLLECTED PIANO WORKS: Volumes 1 & 2 and COLLECTED CHAMBER WORKS: in Varying Combinations for Piano & Strings), which are available for purchase from most major, and many independent, book retailers worldwide. Gary lives with his wife Kaori in Portland, Oregon. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com.

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE is a one-man-band consisting of composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND and his five alter egos: ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, and ARNOLD DAY LONGLY.

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releases January 15, 2022

Cover design & illustrations by Lon Gaylord Dylan (one of Gary Lloyd Noland's five alter egos). Cover photo of Gary Lloyd Noland taken at the Ernest Bloch Festival in Newport, Oregon by composer Greg Steinke in July, 1994.

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Gary Lloyd Noland (aka author Dolly Gray Landon & artist Lon Gaylord Dylan) grew up in a crowded house on a plot of land south of UC Berkeley known as People’s Park. He lived in Salzburg & Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he absorbed many musical influences. Having studied with a long roster of acclaimed composers, he has been called "one of the great composers of the 21st century." ... more

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