"What better way to celebrate the first day of autumn than with the release of an upbeat, autumn-themed album?  Autumn Bells looks forward rather than back, making us miss the summer a little less.  The timing – both physical and emotional – could not be better." - Richard Allen, A Closer Listen

Bandcamp (12" Vinyl / Digital) https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-bells
iTunes (Digital) https://itunes.apple.com/album/id916385589
Amazon (12" Vinyl / Digital)http://www.amazon.de/Autumn-Bells-Vinyl-LP-Gidge/dp/B00LMPG0C4

The Spaces In Between

Huldra

Gidge - Huldra

Journey of Season is a song cycle for vocal quartet, clarinet and piano on the poetry of May Sarton. Performed by Amici Tonic Vocal Ensemble:
Cynthia Perotti, soprano
Beth Pittman, mezzo, soprano
Matt Pittman, tenor
Kevin Perotti, bass
Gail Zugger, clarinet
Philip Everingham, piano

8) My Image Is A Garden

Soprano, Felicia Chen
electronics, Bahar Royaee

Kitchen, is the result of a close collaboration with vocalist Felicia Chen.

Based on a well-known lullaby from northwest Iran, the composer deconstructs and reconstructs the folktune, moving through exploration of phonemes derived from the text, resonance space, vowel filters, and speed of airflow. Royaee supplements the lullaby with recorded sounds from a kitchen, which is an important place of family gathering in Iran. The composer envisions her mother sitting in her kitchen in Iran, thinking of her daughter. 
The text is derived from a poetry by Yadollah Royaee, who has a collection of poetries, all depicting various tombstones, for different people. The selected poetry was written for his best friends and the most famous female contemporary poet in Iran, Fourth Farrokhzad. Yadollah royaee is in exile.

“With every step of yours, I become divorced from the soil. One sip of the loam, and plowing is reminiscent of the horizon.

	با هر قدم تو از خاک دور میشوم،
یک جرعه خاک،
و شخم،
دلتنگ افق میشد.

Kitchen| for soprano, fixed media and live electronics

Rachel Braude, flute 
Charles Dimmick and Sasha Callahan, violins
Harold Lieberman, viola Leo Eguchi, cello

My Halcyon Quintet for flute and string quartet was composed in 2007 and is an 80th birthday present for Mr. Morgan Levine a good friend and a enthusiastic patron of the arts. Halcyon denotes a time of calm, happiness and tranquility all of which is achieved by living life to the fullest. Only an open and loving person can arrive at 80 still continuing to learn, grow, and appreciate life with the enthusiasm and joy of youth combined with the experience and wisdom of a life well lived.
 
Celebratory in nature the piece is fun, rhythmic and upbeat. The quintet is in four movements. The first is a lyrical introduction, the second a rhythmic scherzo, the third a slow expressive pastoral that segues into a rhythmic and joyful finale.

Halcyon Quintet Mvts. 3-4 Pastorale-Presto

Andrew List

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