Conspicuous songs from state of the art to state of the union with collisions of jazz, classical, rock, pop, funk and soul only rarely knocking each other over, reaching towards or pitifully falling short of irony and wit.

More music...

Back to the piano:
facebook.com/share/p/17Ryoavidp

Blissful Behemoth
(homage to Gentle Giant):
soundcloud.com/blissfulbehemoth/sets

"Burt on the brain"
(tribute to Burt Bacharach):
facebook.com/share/p/1F4ttheyD4

Mining the pop reserves:
facebook.com/share/p/162ZDig7uC

Wind-down relaxation:
on.soundcloud.com/UD6L6B3mEqegJf7B9

More virtual concertizing:
facebook.com/adamlevinmusic/posts/3614903578536336

virtual concert

Music & lyrics by Adam Levin
w/Wendy Boulding ('So Alive'), Elena Rye Pellicciaro (poetry source for 'Do You Feel It?'), & Joe Lobell ('Modern Mind' poem in 'Islands, Part One: Pandora's Box')

Keyboards: Adam Levin, Danny Obadia (solo on 'So Alive') & Tomas Stark (organ on 'Words on the Wall')
Percussion: Adam Levin & Jay Mark
Vocals: Wendy Boulding ('Do You Feel It?', 'So Alive'), John Eyre ('Words on the Wall'), Brenda Hettmansberger ('Words on the Wall'), Adam Levin ('Family Portrait') & Peter Stoller ('House on a Hill', 'While Sunlight Slipped Away')

Arranged, produced & mixed by Adam Levin
w/contributions by the performers

Engineered & mastered by Jay Mark
w/Ant Bowles ('Words on the Wall' lead vocal mastering edits), Danny Obadia ('So Alive' engineering & programming) & John Weathers ('Words on the Wall' lead vocal engineering)

Additional works:
soundcloud.com/Levin-Boulding/sets (pop/soul/jazz with Wendy Boulding)
soundcloud.com/BlissfulBehemoth/sets (jazz/classical/rock by Blissful Behemoth)
soundcloud.com/Levin-Stark-Eyre-Hettman/sets (pop/progressive rock)
soundcloud.com/levin-collab/sets (collaborations in all genres, incl. cover songs)



ALBUMS (partial list)



Adam Levin...

Islands:
soundclick.com/bands3/?bandID=1245099&content=albums

TLU2:
soundclick.com/bands3/?bandID=1245099&content=albums

Blissful Behemoth:
differentdrummusic.com/BlissfulBehemoth.htm
cdbaby.com/BlissfulBehemoth

Things Left Unsaid:
differentdrummusic.com/things_left_unsaid.htm
cdbaby.com/adamlevin2



Adam Levin with Wendy Boulding...

A Different Page:
differentdrummusic.com/A_Different_Page_CD.htm
cdbaby.com/adamlevin4

Live(OnTape):
differentdrummusic.com/liveontape.htm
cdbaby.com/adamlevin3



Compilations...

Essentials:
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

et al.:
differentdrummusic.com/et_al.htm
cdbaby.com/adamlevin1

See It (DVD):
differentdrummusic.com/See_It.htm

Adam Levin

Adam levin

(Works selected for submission and acceptance to the Long Island Composers Alliance)

Music & lyrics (c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)
w/Joe Lobell ('Modern Mind' poem in 'Islands, Part One: Pandora's Box') & Elena Rye Pellicciaro (poetry source for 'Do You Feel It?')

Composed, arranged, produced & mixed by Adam Levin
Engineered & mastered by Jay Mark

Vocals:
Wendy Boulding ('Do You Feel It?')
Adam Levin (spoken words in 'Islands, Part One: Pandora's Box')
Peter Stoller ('House on a Hill')

Descriptive notes: differentdrummusic.com/LICA_submissions.pdf
LICA: facebook.com/adamlevinmusic/photos/a.1931234856903225.1073741833.1733949763298403/2033041616722548/?type=3&theater
facebook.com/licomposersalliance | www.licamusic.org

Additional works and genres:
soundcloud.com/adamlevin/sets/adamlevin (all genres)
soundcloud.com/BlissfulBehemoth/sets (jazz/classical/rock by Blissful Behemoth)
soundcloud.com/Levin-Stark-Eyre-Hettman/sets (pop/progressive rock)
soundcloud.com/Levin-Boulding/sets (pop/soul/jazz with Wendy Boulding)
soundcloud.com/levin-collab/sets (collaborations in all genres, incl. cover songs)

Related tracks...
'Things Left Unsaid' solo piano rendition: soundcloud.com/adamlevin/things-left-unsaid
Full-length 'Islands': soundcloud.com/levin-collab/islands-modern-mind
Islands Suite: soundcloud.com/adamlevin/islands-suite
Islands, Part Two: Needle's Eye: soundcloud.com/adamlevin/islands-part-two-needles-eye

LICA submissions

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Albums:

TLU2
soundclick.com/adamlevin/?albumID=1611&content=albumInfo

Essentials
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

One of the challenges often put to composers is, try something different or “outside of the box”. As habitual artists, it’s easy to slip back into comfortable, predictable tendencies or trademarks. This piece was a concerted (pun unintended) rebellion against my own inclinations, pursuing a more minimalist path instead, even if I didn't completely get there. It was later set to ballet and choreographed in performance.

"...a fine contrast between the darker sound of the bass and crystal clear keyboards turns it into something magical."
- On-Reflection

"...the crystalline 'Mantra'...initially an attempt at bare-bones minimalism, the embellishments of this musical mandala take it – and us – from its Reich-ian roots into the sublime territory that is Adam's own."
- Peter Stoller

(Prior listener responses at soundcloud.com/adamlevin/mantra1)

Mantra

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Albums:
I  S  L  A  N  D  S  .  .  .
soundclick.com/adamlevin/?albumID=1608&content=albumInfo

TLU2
soundclick.com/adamlevin/?albumID=1611&content=albumInfo

(Prior listener responses at soundcloud.com/adamlevin/chrysalis1)

Chrysalis

Flo Rida Ft. Robin Thicke & Verdine White - I Don't Like It, I Love It

Lock Away -Adam Levin ((Moombah)) 100Bpm Dj Carlo Remix

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Solo piano rendition:
soundcloud.com/adamlevin/things-left-unsaid

Albums:

TLU2
soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=1245099&albumID=1611&content=albumInfo

I  S  L  A  N  D  S  .  .  .
soundclick.com/adamlevin/?albumID=1608&content=albumInfo

"...one of his most sinuous, sensuous melodies gets a rich, intimate jazz (a la Levin) treatment. And check out the great bass work!"
- Peter Stoller

"...amazing arrangement and performance...the short, quirky harmonic shift still sounds great..."
- Ian Smit, Monkeyworks

"...lovely...delicate and touching! This instrumental brightened up my day...a wonderfully appropriate name for this tune....The bass is much to my liking in this tune, it adds such a lovely flavor...nicely done..."
- On-Reflection

Following an unsettling, extended period of music left unwritten, unfinished or undeveloped, this piece was its culmination, nearly three years sporadically in the making. An earlier, melodic flute part was taken over by portions of the acoustic piano, upright string bass and electric guitar parts in this arrangement. Although conceived as an ensemble work, there is also a solo piano rendition. (Among its projects, the piece is the namesake for writer-actor Kathryn Sanders’ play, in which it was featured alongside other instrumental works of mine.)

Things Left Unsaid

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Fanfare

Peter Stoller, vocals
Adam Levin, keyboards

Music & lyrics by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)


Albums:
Blissful Behemoth
differentdrummusic.com/BlissfulBehemoth.htm

Essentials:
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

"A colourful and moving melody, dreamy harmonies straight from the heart of prog rock and a naturally pleasant voice are the elements that make this piece of music simply delightful. There's some sweet sincerity about it that just makes you want to listen to it again and again...strong and tender...and its key changes are delightful!"
-- On-Reflection

While Sunlight Slipped Away

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Albums:

Blissful Behemoth
differentdrummusic.com/BlissfulBehemoth.htm

Things Left Unsaid
differentdrummusic.com/things_left_unsaid.htm

Essentials
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

DVD: See It
differentdrummusic.com/See_It.htm

Lying (in my Sleep) (live)

Music & lyrics by Adam Levin

Adam Levin, keyboards
Peter Stoller, vocals

(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)


Lyrics:

In a house on a hill lie the remnants of a life
gone without a rhyme or reason and nobody asks why
There are letters half written and opened books half read
but nobody's there to finish any page that was left

It's outlived everyone who once planted on its ground
They once filled its rooms with music; now there isn't a sound
No one seems to know why they each fell from its mound
or why no one's left to climb the steps that lead to the house on the hill

There's a house on a hill that, through every change, stays blind
with its grand facade untarnished, standing frozen in time
like a ghost that's still waiting for someone to return
But the keyless doors they left through locked behind in the house on the hill

House on a Hill

John Eyre, vocals
Adam Levin, keyboards
Tomas Stark, organ

Recorded in Wales (John Eyre, assisted by John Weathers & Ant Bowles), New York (Adam Levin, assisted by Jay Mark), and Sweden (Tomas Stark)

Music & lyrics by Adam Levin
(c) (p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Album: Essentials
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm


"Outstanding...beautiful and touching.... lovely chord progression...  a real singer's song... delightful, warm voice... bittersweet aftertaste... certainly has a face, and it's a beautiful one...really moves me...

So finely lyrical, so touching, so subtle... delicate and subtle colours of emotion... a full palette with both sunrise tones of the birth of a feeling and its darker shades of sadness at the feeling's sunset... A language that speaks to every heart."

-- On-Reflection

Words on the Wall

Wendy Boulding, vocal
Adam Levin, keyboards

Music by Adam Levin | Lyrics by Elena Rye & Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin & Elena Rye Pellicciaro (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

(Based on the poem 'Thoughts' by Elena Pellicciaro)

Albums:
A Different Page
differentdrummusic.com/A_Different_Page_CD.htm

Essentials
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

"I keep coming back to hear 'Do You Feel It?'  It's so beautiful and sad, it brought me to tears... beautiful music."
- Thomas Piercy, classical clarinetist-conductor-vocalist

This song owes its existence to a poem by Elena Rye that I happened to hear her recite. Despite the poem’s lack of meter, it immediately suggested a musical form to me and lent itself to lyrical adaptation. Using the poem as a guide and structure, I composed music directly from it, editing and tailoring the poem into lyrics and song form without sacrificing essential content (although Elena is the ultimate judge of that!) Some music derived from words in the poem proved even more effective and emotional without them and became instrumental passages, further demonstrating that poetic and lyrical forms and criteria can be as different from each other as poetry and music are.

In this rendition, my musical collaborator Wendy Boulding contributed to its pacing, phrasing, and ebb and flow, in addition to her vocal performance.

Do You Feel It?

Wendy Boulding, vocals
Adam Levin, keyboards
Danny Obadia, sampled flute & percussion

Music by Adam Levin & Wendy Boulding | Lyrics by Wendy Boulding
(c) (p) Adam Levin & Wendy Boulding (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Albums:
A Different Page
differentdrummusic.com/A_Different_Page_CD.htm

Essentials
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

"...awesome and inspiring...sweet angelic voice, powerful deep lyrics. What a positive impact!....completely captivated me. It gave me such an inspiration! Like a breath of fresh air!"
- Walter Clark, jazz keyboardist-vocalist

So Alive

I. Inspired by the Sound of Your Own Voice
II. Verbalosity
III. Family Discussion

Music & lyrics by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Albums:
Blissful Behemoth
differentdrummusic.com/BlissfulBehemoth.htm

et al.
differentdrummusic.com/et_al.htm

Blissful Behemoth / et al.

ver bal o sis

Adam Levin, keyboards
Wendy Boulding, John Eyre, Adam Levin & Peter Stoller, vocals

Songs by Adam Levin
w/Wendy Boulding ('So Alive') and Elena Rye Pellicciaro ('Do You Feel It?')