This is a nice crossover between my ambient/field recording and jazz interests! It scratches more than one itch at the same time :-) (and it's $2.67 on Amazon)
@Germanprof The label, Leaving Records, is ironically one of the few "left" at eMusic. There was a nice pair of "studio" albums involving one or both Sams last year.
I think @brighternow mentioned this - I like it, thanks!
Heaven is a work of contemporary church music. Centrally occupied with
the subject of death, its conceptualisation was catalysed by
Spiluttini’s discovering his mother’s preparations for death. During a
visit to her home in 2015 he was led into the local church and shown the
two adjacent places she had reserved for their urns. The tracks on
Heaven together consist of an analogously personal and anticipatory
negotiation with death.
Partly derived from organ recordings made in the same church, the album
frequently enlists Arvo Pärt’s compositional method of tintinnabuli.
Aside from the thematic logic of its sacred associations, the method
suits Spiluttini’s tendency, in spite of heavy and dynamic passages, to
minimise tonal complexity. His characteristic uses of gnashing bass,
restlessly irregular pacing and serrated distortion return. This time,
they combine with pads, harps, fluttering organs and swooping choirs.
An old favourite of mine in a brand new remastered version from Morr Music:
ETA: Just in:
"Nebulae" is largely inspired by the instrumental notated musics for saxophone quartets led by multi instrumentalist-composers Roscoe Mitchell ("Nonaah" for four alto saxophones) and Anthony Braxton ("Composition 37" for saxophone quartet). Commissioned by the Philadelphia-based PRISM Quartet, "Nebulae" is an exactly notated work written for the said group along featuring optional improvising percussion (drum set) or mallet percussion. This extended version of "Nebulae" is a live performance in which I am performing on extended range glockenspiel. There is a yet-to-be commercially released recording of this composition.
Commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, Carnegie Hall, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, "Cycles of My Being" (2018) is a song cycle developed in collaboration with tenor Lawrence Brownlee (for whom the song cycle is written) and poet Terrance Hayes, both of whom contributed the texts. There are two versions of the work. The performers in this recording are Brownlee and pianist Myra Huang. The second version of "Cycles" is scored for tenor, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.
Scored for string quartet, two vibraphones, glockenspiel, and piano, "Sentimental Shards" is an original work after Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady" (1932) and John Adams' "Sentimentals" movement from his AMERICAN STANDARD (1973). This premiere performance of features members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, the wildUp ensemble, and myself (piano) at Walt Disney Hall, 8 April 2014
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2009 Heated: Live In Japan 2010 Submerged
2010 Energy Field 2014 Out Of Range
Various Tracks 2001 - 2009 nyop
2011 Pari Passu 2016 Inter Alia (Emusic)
LA street music by Sam Gendel and Sam Wilkes
I learn that Sam G. has a new album of (solo alto sax) film music:
Coincidentally, more film music on Bandcamp. I have a Rez concert coming in a few weeks
1986 Jaap Blonk / Syrinx Saxophone Quartet 2016 Jaap Blonk Leest Theo Van Doesburg
- Sarmatian Time nyop
2017 De Grote Grebbegraai nyop
2005 What We Must 2015 Starfire
2011 Magic Mountain 2011 On The Road - Recognition Mix
2018 On And On
mastering Marlon Wolterink / White Noise Studio
composed & performed by Michel Banabila
2004 Conv 2005 Time Exp
2008 Kuu 2008 Lumien
2010 Numiana 2012 Sirin
2013 Anima Ombra 2013 Siam Soul
2015 Twilight Star Channeling 2018 Jari Pitkänen & Shum
- Jää / Jég nyop
Serafima Okuneva & ɟɐɥɯᴉ ɯnɹsʎᴉp - Coldness
Partly derived from organ recordings made in the same church, the album frequently enlists Arvo Pärt’s compositional method of tintinnabuli. Aside from the thematic logic of its sacred associations, the method suits Spiluttini’s tendency, in spite of heavy and dynamic passages, to minimise tonal complexity. His characteristic uses of gnashing bass, restlessly irregular pacing and serrated distortion return. This time, they combine with pads, harps, fluttering organs and swooping choirs.
An old favourite of mine in a brand new remastered version from Morr Music:
ETA: Just in:
1976 Parallèles
2015 Yellow Bell 2015 Jacob Eriksen /Lukas Grundmann
Jasmine Guffond/Gregor Pfeffer/Martyna Poznańska
- Singing Stones nyop
2016 Jasmine Guffond / Plurals
- Jasmine Guffond / Plurals nyop
PS- this album is new to my library and was a most enjoyable addition!
Kevin Drumm - Dizzy
Released October 20, 2019
(not this Dizzy
2002 Fly
Jaimie Branch on trumpet