Music composed by Daniele Dinaro
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Venere

Dan Carillo - guitars, percussion
Jason Rigby - soprano saxophone
John Patitucci - basses

Temple Music is a composition that unfolds over a relatively long time scale.  The composed portion of the music is played up to a point of departure for collective improvisation.  After each improvisation, the written material is played again from the beginning to a further point which serves as a point of departure for the next improvisation.  Miniatures composed for bass choir separate the end of the improvised sections from the next successive thematic statement.  A reprise of the fully composed piece, in a duet setting for acoustic guitar and bass, is played as a single continuity to close the piece.

First and foremost, Temple Music is conceived as a piece of collective improvisational music and the performance is offered as an artistic expression in the purest sense of the term.  However, the title is also a reference to the meditative, contemplative, prayerful nature of the piece, and to the influences of worship practices of many cultures.  Whether one chooses to worship God, Yahweh, Allah, the Creator, the Higher Power, the Universe, Krisha, etc., or chooses to worship in a Gothic cathedral, an Eastern Orthodox church, a mosque, a Buddhist meditation center, the courtyard of a Hindu temple, a store front neighborhood church, a synagogue, a megachurch campus, or in the great expanse of nature, Temple Music will encourage a state of peace and tranquility, and open pathways for contemplative prayer and meditation. 

Recorded at Solid Sounds Studio, Cornwall NY
Recording engineers - Lucas Carillo, Dan Carillo
Mixed by Lou Holtzman at East Side Sound Studio, NYC

Temple Music

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19 Natasha Sistrunk Robinson on Truth-telling in a Divided World

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19 Natasha Sistrunk Robinson on Truth-telling in a Divided World

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