John Luther Adams IlimaqGlenn Kotche, percussion

The dead shall live, the living die,And music shall untune the sky.

—John Dryden

In Inuit tradition the shaman rides the sound of the drum to and from the spirit world.In Ilimaq the drummer leads us on a journey through soundscapes drawn from thenatural world and from the inner resonances of the instruments themselves.

My own musical journey began with rock drumming. And all these years later, inGlenn Kotche, I’ve found the drummer I always imagined I could be.

—JLA

Mixed and mastered by Nathaniel ReichmanRecorded by Patrick Burns

Studio producer: Doug Perkins

Ilimaq was commissioned by Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas, Walker Art Center, Stanford Live at Stanford University, and Duke Performances at Duke University.

Ilimaq is published by Taiga Press (BMI) ©2015 and distributed by Theodore Front Musical Literature.

Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia WolfeLabel Manager: Bill Murphy

Cantaloupe sales manager: Adam CuthbertArt direction: Jim Fox

Photography: Dennis Keeley, from the series “In between Something and Nothing”

DVD menus: John Brown @ cloud chamberDVD authoring: Michael Fossenkemper

Special thanks to Scott Deal for his indispensable contributions to the long evolution of Ilimaq.

Glenn Kotche thanks: Miiri, Robert and Eileen Kotche, Wilco, Marc Greenberg, Matthew Duvall, Kathy Panoff, Jenny Bilfield, Philip Bither, Aaron Greenwald, Ben Levin and all atTMM, and Shure microphones.

For more about everything you hear on this CD, visit johnlutheradams.com, glennkotche.com, and cantaloupemusic.com. To get specially priced advance copies of all our new releases, join the Cantaloupe Club at club.bangonacan.org, or join our digital subscription service at drip.com/cantaloupe.

Ilimaq

01 Descent 02 Under the Ice 03 The Sunken Gamelan 04 Untune the Sky 05 Ascension

Instrumental and electroacoustic soundscape composed by John Luther Adams

Performed by Glenn Kotche, drum kit and percussion

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