American composer and performer known for cross-cultural compositions that incorporate Thai folk music and the khaen; released Epilogue For A Dark Day on Tzadik (2004).

Performs on the khaen (Lao mouth organ); album Epilogue For A Dark Day was released on Tzadik in 2004; work combines field research in Southeast Asia with Western compositional techniques; performs and records his compositions.

The available review praises Christopher Adler's Tzadik release Epilogue For A Dark Day for its deep research, use of the khaen, and skilful fusion of Thai folk elements with Western compositional techniques. The critic highlights the album's live pieces and the suite-like 'Pan-Lom'. Recommended for listeners of experimental and world-influenced contemporary music.

For:Listeners of experimental, avant-garde and world-influenced contemporary music; those interested in Thai folk instruments and cross-cultural composition.

 I will not repeat the tedious historiographical process on the local music schools, a process that elsewhere (despite myself) has made my review work irreparably soporific; I merely wish to point out the release by Tzadik (in 2004, I am a bit late) of that extraordinary avant-garde work that is Christopher Adler's "Epilogue For A Dark Day"; at first glance, he is not a character that makes an impression: intellectual eyeglasses and the air of a know-it-all boring lecturer, more or less the appearance that some site users imagine for yours truly (who instead has a beard and hair down to his shoulders, but let's not digress...); and indeed, he is truly a professor, holding a Composition professorship at San Diego University, where he is making an impact with a research path that (I am not afraid to say) has very few equals: from New York to Tokyo, his name is becoming increasingly familiar to insiders and beyond, for his bizarre yet formidable ability to... combine European scholarly harmony and Thai folk music; but in a completely "heretical" and anti-linear way, faithful to an absolutely individual path.

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