This is incredibly beautiful. Alarm will sounds work is always so amazing.

I think my mind just melted. Is that amplified strings or guitar?

How does this not have a million more listens! So so beautiful

Steve Reich refers to Caleb Burhans as "a unique, unusual, and distinctive voice" — all of which the young composer and multi-instrumentalist brings to bear on his Cantaloupe Music debut EVENSONG (July 30). Order now at iTunes and you'll get two exclusive bonus tracks: “In Time of Desperation” (with Caleb on piano) and “As Desperation Sets In” (Bill Kalinkos, clarinet and John Orfe, piano).

Featuring ALARM WILL SOUND, the TRINITY WALL STREET CHOIR and the TARAB CELLO ENSEMBLE, the recording is a testament to Burhans' versatility as a composer and the defining statement of his complex connection to the church — an “emo-classical” epic where sacred meets secular in a pure, dynamic expression of musical influences that range from classical to ambient to post-rock. While the album presents motifs from the Christian church service (book-ended with the opening “Magnificat” and the closing “Nunc Dimittis,” recorded with the Trinity Wall Street Choir), it refracts them through the modern lens of new music and the avant garde.

Order the CD, with liner notes by Grey Mcmurray, here: http://bangonacan.org/store/music/evensong

Oh Ye Of Little Faith … (Do You Know Where Your Children Are )

Written for Alarm Will Sound, amplified sinfonietta and live keyboard sampler for the electronics.

Hasta que no pueda (2023)

From as review by Garrett Harris: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/nov/09/classical-sarah-chang-bruch-barry-white/#

A dramatic reading of Sarah Chang + Bruch = Barry White from San Diego Reader

Kick off your zip-up, leather booty slippers and enjoy the latest instalment of Zoon van snooK's (Lo Recordings) Oddtronica™ radio show.
The special guest on 'Tunes For Zoon' is Warp Records' Mira Calix.

So, if you want to hear 2 hours of brand new and forthcoming releases and to find out which tenses not to use non-action verbs with, come on in...

First aired 31/03/16

ZvS links:
www.zoonvansnook.co.uk/
www.facebook.com/Zoon-van-snooK-3…timeline/?ref=mf
twitter.com/Zoon_van_snooK
@zoonvansnook

Mira Calix: http://www.miracalix.com/

1. Slackk 'Pigeons'
2. Ash Koosha 'Biutiful'
3. Cialyn 'Neuromodulation'
4. Ocoeur 'Timeless'
5. David August 'J.B.Y'
6. Jameszoo 'Flake'
7. Throwing Shade 'Underneath My Eyelids'
8. Dollkraut 'Fire' (Invisible Conga People Remix)

'Bring the Nois'
9. BeGun 'Mobasi Pt.2' (Free Download - Soundcloud)

10. Moiré 'Lines + Colours'
11. Recondite 'Warg'
12. Concubine 'Kingfisher'
13. Henri Texier 'Les "Là-Bas"' (Bonobo Remix)

'Tunes For Zoon' w/ special guest: Mira Calix
(x 5 - a surprise, you'll have to listen!!!)

19. Mira Calix 'I May Be Over There (But My Heart is Over Here)'
20. DJ Tennis 'Chirality' (Plaid Remix)
21. Mella Dee 'Deep Soul'


'Left of Field'
22. The Soft Pink Truth 'Awesome'

23. Greed 'Burning'
24. Figure Ground 'Figure Ground 09'
25. Carl Finlow 'Hyperloop'

Zoon van snooK presents: Oddtronica #10 w/special guest: Mira Calix

For the second year in a row, I composed a track dedicated to those we lost during 9/11.  This one is for them..... Bless

9-11-16 
Written, Produced and Mixed by King Britt for Cosmic Lounge Music (ASCAP) 

Equipment used:
Fender Rhodes 77
Moog Source
MiniMoog (Original)
Moogerfooger Analog Delay
Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
Roland Scooper
Roland Demora
Roland JX3P

9-11-16 - KING BRITT

violin, drones & live electronics
//
clara kim, violin
daniel silliman, electronics, production
//
recorded, mixed & mastered at woolworth studios, princeton, nj

scanner/scrawler

Medeski Martin & Wood and Alarm Will Sound have announced the release of a new collaborative album, 'Omnisphere,' due September 14 via MMW's own imprint, Indirecto Records. The collection poses a compelling question: What would happen if one of the most adventurous groups to emerge in jazz and improvised music in the last three decades were to join up with an orchestra that counts among the boldest forces in contemporary classical? The results are both expected, in the peerless level of the musicianship, and stunning, in the sweeping stylistic range of the program. But more than anything, 'Omnisphere' speaks to the respect and creative kinship shared between these two trailblazing ensembles.

Recorded live at The Newman Center in Denver, Colorado in February 2015, 'Omnisphere' fulfills a long-held aspiration for Medeski, drummer-percussionist Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood. In the earliest days of the band, they would often listen to classical and chamber music as a source of musical inspiration, conceptualizing the idea of how to merge their freewheeling improvisational jazz explorations with the more composed approach of orchestral music.   

The album's seven-track program strikes an ideal balance, with original music by members of both groups, plus new AWS arrangements of two cuts off MMW's 'End of the World Party (Just in Case)'—the title track for which was is the album's first single premiered today at DownBeat (listen and share here). That 2004 release featured the trio's trademark avant-grooves underneath an array of keyboards—including plenty of Mellotron—with pop-savvy production by the Dust Brothers' John King. On these reinventions of "End of the World Party (Just in Case)," arranged by cellist Stefan Freund, and "Anonymous Skulls," arranged by violinist Courtney Orlando, the album's atmospheric replicas of strings and choir are made real through Alarm Will Sound's rich orchestral tapestry. Think of classic soul-jazz-with-strings LPs, though on another plateau of insight and imagination.

Martin's "Coral Sea," given an impressionistic arrangement by founding AWS trumpeter Jason Price, explores "colors and hues and nuance—all these things that are barely there," the composer says. Medeski's offering, "Eye of Ra," is a 20-minute tour-de-force that reflects the panoramic scope of his influences and experience—from shades of Stravinsky and Shostakovich that underscore his training at New England Conservatory, to rollicking, hard-grooving sections that summon up the NYC downtown scene.

The lead-off composition, "Kid Tao Mammal (Unworldliness Weirdo)," was commissioned for the project and written by founding AWS percussionist Payton MacDonald, and it sets the pace for the beyond-genre music to follow: speedy, cresting waves of strings and woodwinds, with startling punches of brass; funky rhythms bolstering Medeski's psychedelic electric piano; an ambient, near-dissonant section split open by Martin's drum solo; a thrilling finale. Other works composed by AWS personnel include multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans' "Oh Ye of Little Faith...(Do You Know Where Your Children Are?)," which evokes the gorgeously emotive, slow-burning side of the Minimalists; and Miles Brown's cyclical, noirish "Northern Lights," named in part after the Detroit lounge where the bassist had a regular jazz-trio gig. Onstage, Brown called his contribution "an opportunity for me to write for my band, and for a band that I've been listening to for a long time that I know could handle some improvisation. Just a little bit,” he added, chuckling.

Medeski Martin & Wood w/ Alarm Will Sound's 'Omnisphere' is out September 17, 2018 on limited edition 2-LP vinyl and digital formats.

OMNISPHERE
Track Listing

1. "Kid Tao Mammal (Unworldliness Weirdo)"
2. "Anoymous Skulls"
3. "Coral Sea" 
4. "Oh Ye Of Little Faith... (Do You Know Where Your Children Are?)"
5. "Eye Of Ra"
6. "Northern Lights"
7. "End Of The World Party (Just In Case)"

Medeski Martin & Wood - "End Of The World Party"

A soupy blend of experimental sounds from New York's Eartheater.

For more information and tracklist head here: http://www.factmag.com/2018/10/31/fact-mix-678-eartheater/

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FACT mix 678 - Eartheater (Oct '18)

"The very model of a modern music chamber band." - The NYTimes

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