Winter

CAN'T SLEEP

music by aidan donnelly & marie blix
words by aidan donnelly
mixed by aidan donnelly

special thanks to mia, marie, richard, and rebekah for pushing me to release this
thanks to laura for the help with mixing
and thanks to my awesome sister adeline for all of the photos!

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Written and Arranged by Ross Turman

Alto Sax- Ross Turman
Trumpet- Lachie Day
Keys- Dovy Ehrenreich
Bass- James Duncan
Drums- Nick Arcari
Recorded and Mixed by Juan Zamora
Photo by Jamie Xu

Recorded at the Berklee College of Music Valencia campus in November of 2018.

Method

“The Cage” is a contemporary classical chamber piece for Flute, Alto Saxophone, Violin and Double Bass. It was inspired by a horrifying interview I came across on Oprah Winfrey’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/GVMna-2_ZM8 The young woman being interviewed spent 7 years of her childhood trapped in a dog cage by her abusive parents in a dark, cold Wisconsin basement. When writing this piece, I imagined myself as this innocent girl, and out poured fear, misery and insanity. 

This piece was performed remotely in April 2020 by Danielle Yao (flute), Fern Perera (violin), Adrienne Schoenfeld (double bass) and Ross Turman (alto saxophone)

Visual Art by Ben Turman

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Adrienne Schoenfeld

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