Drinking Song

Created for the dance theatre production Return in Bochum in 1992 and recently recorded by the Acacia Quartet on the CD Blue Silence on the label Vexations840, this miniature by the Uzbek-Australian composer again pays homage to the tango. The melodic glissandos and trills as well as the irregular units with which the upper parts move over a cohesive walking bass line appear 'drunken'.