Star Maker Fragments - TAK ensemble and Taylor Brook - Full Album

1. STAR MAKER FRAGMENTS I - INTRODUCTION (0:00) II - PEOPLE OF THE OTHER WORLD (6:13) III - OTHER WORLD MEDIA (15:16) IV - THE TASTE OF GOD (20:32) V - STARS (26:02) VI - MUSICAL UNIVERSES (31:03) VII - BACK TO EARTH (40:32) 2. STAR MAKER POSTLUDE () Taylor Brook’s “Star Maker Fragments” sets excerpts of Olaf Stapledon’s groundbreaking 1937 novel “Star Maker.” Most notable for the invention of the many-worlds model of the universe, the novel focuses on a human narrator that is transported out of their body to become a disembodied viewpoint that travels through space and time. Brook evocatively renders Stapledon’s descriptions of imaginary societies with his sweeping and transcendentally detailed microtonal lines. Implicitly critiquing the rise of global authoritarianism in both music and text, Brook relishes in Stapledon’s empathetic and thoughtfully pacifistic lens. This stunning concert-length work wea