{"id":3774,"date":"2026-07-29T17:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=3774"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:23:11","slug":"sunk-45s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/sunk-45s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunk 45s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Sunk 45s\u00a0(2025)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, electric organ, and percussion, plus electronics [20:00]<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A: Low Point<br \/>\nB: Hi Cool<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A: Drift &amp; Dredge (take 1)<br \/>\nB: Drift &amp; Dredge (take 2)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A: La Poussi\u00e8re<br \/>\nB: Low Point (alternate take, varispeed)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ecxbwmOjy9Q?si=Ejbjl9Im4HChXydp\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 60px;\"><i>Sunk 45s<\/i> is a dispatch from the bottom: the below-sea-level vantage point of South Louisiana, a drainage ditch looking back up towards the rest of North America in 2025\u2014a continent in disarray in a time out of joint. Draw a curve from San Francisco to New York City that dips as low as possible without veering into the gulf and you&#8217;ll hit New Orleans, where you&#8217;ll find a 45-year-old<br \/>\ncomposer in a slump that matches that nadir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Think of these vignettes as sides on vinyl 45 RPM records that could have been dug out of bayou silt. The vintage vocabulary of the swamp blues is intact: overdriven harmonica, breathy tenor sax, tremolo and slapback guitar, a spinning organ, and a rusty drum kit. Daniel Lanois may have covered a few of these tunes in the 1980&#8217;s, throwing in an omnichord and some pristine echoes. In Ensemble Nikel&#8217;s present-day version, instruments are retuned into a microtonal haze, digital effects are run through a laptop into both amps and makeshift coffee tin speakers, and subtly stretching loops create a maze of temporal shifts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Sunk 45s<\/i> was co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust &#8211; TIME:SPANS Festival and TUP\/Philharmonie Essen &#8211; NOW! Festival. 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