Ensemble(s): ContaQt
Artist(s): Ziporyn, Evan
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Genre: Contemporary Instrumental
Period: 20th Century; Contemporary
Catalogue No: CA-21204
Barcode: 713746320423
Release Date: 11/2025

ZIPORYN, Evan / CONTAQT: Art Decade

It’s impossible to overstate how the ambient and “art rock” oeuvre of David Bowie, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp influenced a generation; add the painterly minimalism of Harold Budd, whose own place in the firmament shimmers with gems like Avalon Sutra and, with Eno, the epic Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror, and we have all the ingredients for the exploratory wonders that permeate the aptly titled ART DECADE (after Bowie’s haunting meditation from 1977’s Low).

The album is a wide-ranging collaboration that unites composer, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Evan Ziporyn with Toronto’s renowned ContaQt ensemble, led by percussionist Jerry Pergolesi. Featuring all-new interpretations of these classics from the early ’70s psych-prog output of King Crimson, Bowie’s famed “Berlin trilogy,” and Eno’s Ambient 1-4 series, Art Decade is more than just a tribute album.

Tracklist

Fripp, Robert
Ziporyn, Evan - Arranger
Pergolesi, Jerry - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
1 Red (arr. J. Pergolesi and E. Ziporyn) 05:56
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
Budd, Harold
Eno, Brian
Pergolesi, Jerry - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
2 Not Yet Remembered (arr. J. Pergolesi and E. Ziporyn) 03:56
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
Bowie, David
Ziporyn, Evan - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
3 Sense of Doubt (arr. E. Ziporyn) 04:04
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
Eno, Brian
Bowie, David
Ziporyn, Evan - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
4 Moss Garden (arr. E. Ziporyn) 10:49
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
Eno, Brian
Bowie, David
Ziporyn, Evan - Arranger
Noseworthy, Andrew - Arranger
Pergolesi, Jerry - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
5 Neuköln (arr. A. Noseworthy, J. Pergolesi and E. Ziporyn) 04:19
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
Fripp, Robert
Pergolesi, Jerry - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
6 Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II) (arr. J. Pergolesi) 07:17
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
Eno, Brian
Fripp, Robert
Ziporyn, Evan - Arranger
Keeling, Andrew - Arranger
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)
7 Evening Star (arr. A. Keeling and E. Ziporyn) 08:38
Ziporyn, Evan (clarinet)
ContaQt (Ensemble)

Total Playing Time: 44:59