Fanfare: “poetry and mystery” heard in Phil Kline’s "Around the World in a Daze" surround DVD from Starkland

In the latest issue of Fanfare, Robert Carl reviews Phil Kline’s Around the World in a Daze DVD. He finds that “the whole thing breathes with a certain poetry and mystery.”

Carl writes that The Housatonic at Henry Street, which uses recorded ambiance near Kline’s home on New York’s Lower East Side, “is a very rich and evocative piece, a haunting Ives tribute/elegy.”

Phil Kline (L) and Tom Steenland
check out the ambiance at the corner
of Henry and Rutgers in New York

He next mentions the “ravishing vocal harmonies” found in The Wailing Wall.

Carl then remarks that the “tour de force” Pennies from Heaven “starts as a trickle and becomes a downpour, creating textures of great complexity, yet always clear and direct in its impact.”

He concludes that Daze “has attractive and entertaining things throughout, and sometimes it really takes off.”

Read more about Phil Kline’s Around the World in a Daze DVD.

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