New works for oboe etc....dedicated to Noah Creshevsky - dear friend and
wonderful composer who just passed away at the end of 2020 just as
these pieces were being finished - he will be missed.
Composed in 2003 and revised and remastered in 2020.
Canadian comedian/musician, well known from the 1960's on. Metro's popularity peaked in the period encompassing the mid-1970's through the 1980's, after the release of the surprisingly popular "Metro's Eleven Days From Christmas" album in 1975.
My Dad must have picked these up at the now defunct Radio Shack as he was a frequent visitor. My last additions to my Xmas rotation and it's back to the alphabet. 1983 A Gift Of Christmas 1983 Christmas Party
The artists featured here were pioneer recordings artists whose
names were well known in the era they lived. They helped start what is
now known today as the record industry. They were popular artist in
their time, and their records sold well in an era when movies were
silent and radio and television did not yet exist. Of all things Christmas, nothing is more traditional than the singing of carols and songs....
On
October 30, 1889, banjoist Will Lyle made history by recording "Jingle
Bells", the very first Christmas record. Although no known copies of
this record survive, one of the earliest vocal examples of "Jingle
Bells" does survive on an Edison brown wax cylinder entitled, "Sleigh
Ride Party". It was made a decade later and is reissued here for the
very first time in this collection. These songs and monologues from the
original vintage recordings capture the essence of the Christmas spirit
as it was in the opening two decades of the 20th Century.
So
gather up the family, wind up the phonograph and take a trip back in
time to the early 1900's and celebrate the holidays with the "Voices of
Christmas Past".
This has been a real slow grower for me. Did not like it at first listen. I am realizing that my mental expectation of what a Wil Bolton album would sound like was one culprit - this is rather different from his other stuff. The more I listen, the more I like it - it's becoming a favorite by slow degrees.
New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records release Tristan Perich’s Drift Multiply on November 13, 2020, as part of the partnership between the two labels. Drift Multiply is available to preorder now.
Drift Multiply, Tristan Perich’s largest work to date, is performed by fifty violins and fifty loudspeakers and is conducted by Douglas Perkins. Scored as one hundred individual lines of music, the piece blends violins and speakers into a cascading tapestry of tone, harmony, and noise. The violins perform from sheet music, while the speakers are each connected to custom-built circuit boards programmed to output 1-bit audio, the most basic digital waveforms made of just ones and zeroes. “I am interested in the threshold between the abstract world of computation and the physical world around us,” Perich explains.
Journalist Ben Ratliff wrote, “Drift Multiply uses ingredients which have become well-known in Perich’s work: strings or one-bit tones entering a section in layers of evenly-spaced notes or drones; quickly advancing depths and densities; harmony spreading across the space of the music in flickering, cascading, or wave-like motions; white noise, rendered in pulses or fields of sound.” He continues, “Steve Reich has been a fan since hearing 1-Bit Symphony. ‘I started listening to it, and I thought, my gosh … In some ways it reminded me of [Stravinsky’s] Petrushka. Who would think of electronic chips as summoning up anything as beautiful, musically, as that?’” Drift Multiply premiered at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine for the 2018 Red Bull Music Festival. In 2019, it traveled to the Netherlands for Big Idea #01, where Lucinda Childs was commissioned to create a new large-scale dance to Drift Multiply, performed by 66 dancers in front of the live music.
New York–based composer Tristan Perich’s work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics, and code. The Wire describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live. His follow-up circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony, has received critical acclaim, with the Wall Street Journal saying “its oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth.” The New York Times called his latest circuit album, Noise Patterns, “techno for silicon-based life forms.” As an electronic musician, he has performed internationally, from Sonár, MUTEK, and the Barbican to the National Gallery of Art and The Kitchen. As a composer, he has received commissions from Sō Percussion, the LA Philharmonic, Vicky Chow, and more, as well as an award of distinction from Ars Electronica for his work for violins and 1-bit electronics, Active Field. As a visual artist, his audio installations, video works and machine drawings have received commissions from the likes of Rhizome and L’Auditori in Barcelona, and his artwork has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, VOLT Festival, the San Diego Museum, and bitforms gallery.
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1972 Christmas With Johnny Mathis And The Ray Conniff Singers /
Christmas With The Ray Conniff Singers And Johnny Mathis
1975 Christmas Festival
Composed in 2003 and revised and remastered in 2020.
Marco Oppedisano, el. guitar and el. bass.
In honor of the late Noah Creshevsky 1945-2020
Out Your Ear (ASCAP)
www.marcooppedisano.net
1975 Metro's Eleven Days From Christmas
1983 A Gift Of Christmas
1983 Christmas Party
Of all things Christmas, nothing is more traditional than the singing of carols and songs....
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music #3 2005 ε-Menge
trk 18 - Teilmenge 35 C
2006 ζ-Menge 2011 Soirée
2015 Ornamente (Zwischen Null Und Eins) 2020 Glasgow 03/09/1999
Emusic Bandcamp
Jimi Hendrix - Merry Christmas And Happy New Year EP!
2006 Amateur Universes
1982 Lone Rhino 1989 Mr. Music Head
1999 Salad Days 2004 Side One
Atlantide
1976 Atlantide
Atoll
1974 Musiciens - Magiciens 1975 L'Araignée-Mal
1977 Tertio
1996 Spanks For The Memories
Teenage Fanclub _ songs from Northern Britain
2002 Asleep Many Years In The Wood 2004 Joji
1979 Christmas 1979