NUMBER 24 ON BILLBOARD CLASSICAL CROSSOVER CHART AUGUST 2005 The long-awaited followup to their acclaimed all-Steve Reich debut, Alarm Will Sound, the young 22-piece new music band featuring voices, strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussionists, takes on twisted techno master Aphex Twin in Acoustica. Alarm Will Sound, who the NY times calles 'the future of classical music,' has, with a cadre of 10 arrangers, painstakingly recreated and rethought Aphex Twin's legendary electronic work for an all-acoustic band. From creative new transcription ideas to using non-standard 'classical music' instruments to ensuring that all four drummers are kept busy with Aphex Twin's unimaginably intricate beats, this sounds like no CD you've heard before. With bonus remixes of the remixes by the emerging Berlin-based techno master Dennis DeSantis.
