Compositions on CD                            
                                           
 

Recent work:

Things You Must Do To Get To Heaven (Innova 664)

                   
                           
Sixteen Sesterces
 
Arrival of the Crows
 

"Moorefield's excellent and varied discography just grew by one…I can wholeheartedly recommend having this music around your house." -Sequenza 21
 

"Full of inventive gestures and unorthodox timbral juxtapositions. **** ½." -All Music Guide
 
"Brings together ambient electronics, alluring microtonal slides and earthy rhythmic pulsation that packs a direct emotional kick." -Detroit Free Press
 
                                           
             
                         
Distractions On The Way To The King's Party (Cuneiform Rune 56)           The Temperature In Hell Is over Three Thousand Degrees (Tzadik 7026)          

The Emily XYZ Songbook, with poet Emily XYZ (Rattapallax)

  
               
No Warning   Wish I'd Thought Of It Sooner       Possession
  The Temperature In Hell Is Over 3,000 Degrees, Fourth Movement           Slot Machine
       

"Studied yet surprising, brainy yet bloodthirsty. Virgil Moorefield sets a horn section against a trio of fine, fiery guitarists."   Guitar Player

"Gives an impish, dissonant spin to a big band sound...variety, forward drive, and a sharp wit."  New York Times

    "What made the performance absorbing was its easy, confident compromise between composition and improvisation.The music always had a sense of forward motion and free invention; you could hear these excellent musicians listening to one another." New York Times                                 

 

          

"XYZ's readings-- along with Virgil Moorefield's compulsively catchy electronic musical settings-- demonstrate her real powers for all to hear. A breakthough." Publisher's Weekly

"Bravura poetry in a bravura production, with speed-veined hard'n'tight drum'n'bass electronica by Virgil Moorefield. This is the CD of the year!" poetry.about.com

 
scores in pdf format:

Siamese Kits, Joined At The Kick (for two drummers, 2003)

studio recording: drumming

Things You Must Do To Get To Heaven

 No Warning (from Distractions, 1994)
1. Five On Six

2. Crosstalk
3. Eightball In The Corner Wormhole
4. Sixteen Sesterces   Wish I'd Thought Of It Sooner (from 3,000 Degrees,1997/2004)