Detours

Gordon McPherson's Detours (1998-2000) concerns itself with his experiences in cars. For example, the first section, "Echo's Tape", is about a drunken taxi ride with a stranger who later became his girlfriend ("two years later we found ourselves in the same cab splitting up for the umpteenth time"). The composer "draws upon musical loves and references from genres outside the classical canon". The set is completed by Maps And Diagrams Of Our Pain, a schizoid violin and piano piece inspired by obsessive-compulsive disorders, and the supple mini-guitar concerto Born Of Funk And The Fear Of Falling.