Logan Strosahl and his Team have created a fascinating recording that portrays the story of one of the most famous legends in history which, like many great stories, straddles an unclear line between history and imagination. Book I of Arthur is the first in what will be a complete transformative conceptualization of this traditional epoch. the tales about King Arthur, with their many characters coming together in the service of good. Strosahl sees the structure of the stories of the Round Table as polyphonic—an interconnected web of the actions of individual people with entirely different stories. In Book I of Arthur, Strosahl sets the scene of 5th century England as a chaotic, semi-mythical place by utilizing 20st century musical technique to express an eerie, at times aleatoric soundworld that becomes more and more structured as Arthur grows, discovers his roots and, finally, claims the throne. The artifice of the later pieces, with their precise tonal part-writing, is—to some extent—the artifice of the moral code that Arthur tried to apply to the world around him.
