A track from Anthony Bannach's experimental music album Emotionale Landschaften.  "II" features a mixture of different styles of jazz and hip-hop while still retaining the sense of experimentalism and weirdness that is found on the rest of the album which can be purchased on Itunes, Rhapsody,etc. or on the cdbaby page here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/anthonybannach1?_ga=1.38719975.517833438.1447849181


Emotionale Landschaften "II"

The eponymous track from the EP Xihu Polyphony,  a project aimed at marrying traditional Chinese sounds with minimalist and experimental compositional processes. You can download the EP for any price you feel at:  https://anthonybannach.bandcamp.com/album/xihu-polyphony

If you do download for free, please kindly pass word of my music on to others!


 Named after the famous Xihu, or "West Lake" in Hangzhou, China, the track can be at times quaint and meditative and at others bombastic and brooding, imitating its gorgeous scenery with the multiple dramatic Chinese legends the lake.  

Original photo of Xihu courtesy of  Jimmy Nesbitt. 



Xihu Polyphony

A string orchestration I did for orchestration and arrangement practice of the first prelude of Alexander Scriabin's "5 preludes" (op.74n.1).  It was good practice not only in the orchestrational, pen and paper aspect of it, but also good practice for doing a decent midi mockup for strings.  

5 Preludes Op.74 Nr.1

String Orchestra arrangement of Scriabin's Prelude No.1 (Op.74 N.1)

My midi mockup of a small piece from Bela Bartok's classic work for piano, the infamous Mikrokosmos volumes.  This piece nicknamed, "Syncopation" is well known for it's changing time signatures and, well, syncopation.  I took it as an exercise of arranging for string orchestra, because of it's aforementioned rhythmic challenges, but it's challenges in writing apt articulation and choosing how to write the strings in some of the higher passages.  

String Orchestra Arrangement of Bartok's "Syncopation" from Mikrokosmos Sz.107 Book 5 Nr.133

This is a jazzy piano arrangement I did in time for the holidays of the classic duet from David Bowie and Bing Crosby. I tried to give this arrangement a very contemporary jazz feel with lots of colorful harmony. That kind of hissing vinyl quality is deliberate, I wanted the audio of this to sound like you were listening to an old worn out vinyl record in the living room. Hope you enjoy it.