Mixtape #013

"saf" by Kee Avil from the album Crease
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Produced by Kee Avil and Zachary Scholes
Recorded and mixed by Zachary Scholes at Concrete Sound Studio in Montréal QC
Mastered by Guy Hébert at Concrete Mastering in Montréal QC

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"As is the Inward Suspicious Mind" is taken from the last verse of Elizabeth I's French Psalter poem "No Crooked Leg, No Blearéd Eye", and was written for solo soprano, loop station, digital delay processing pedal, and various plugin effects. This poem was written when Elizabeth I (then Princess) was taken prisoner at the Tower of London by her half sister Queen Mary Tudor, in fear that the young Princess was supporting Protestant rebels in England. "As is the Inward Suspicious Mind" musically quotes "Dansereye (1551) - Den I Ronde 'Pour Quoy" (Tielman Susato), which was also used as source music in the 1998 motion picture film "Elizabeth".

"As is the Inward Suspicious Mind" was recorded in Notting Hill, London, with Soprano Emily Thorner on 28 December, 2021.

As is the Inward Suspicious Mind

الإخفاء - الشهوة والسعار
Lekhfa - El Shahwa Wel Soaar (Lust and Savagery)

كلمات ميدو زهير - متاحة على يوتيوب
Lyrics: Mido Zoheir (Translations available on Youtube)

ألحان و توزيع -  compositions and arrangments:
Maryam Saleh - Maurice Louca - Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
مريم صالح - موريس لوقا - تامر أبو غزالة

ألبوم طهي ببطء على مدى ثلاث سنوات وأربع إقامات إبداعية مزجت أساليب الموسيقيين الثلاثة بشكلٍ سلس، وشكلت صوتهم المشترك المتجانس. بدأ الثلاثي بتأليف الأغاني قبل كتابتها، ثم عثروا على لغتهم المشتركة في قصائد الشاعر المصري العامي ميدو زُهير،.

يأتي كل من مريم صالح وموريس لوقا وتامر أبو غزالة من خلفيات مختلفة مكرَّسة في الموسيقى العربية البديلة، لكن دروبهم استمرت بالتقاطع فعملوا إلى جوار بعضهم البعض مستقين من مصادر الإلهام ذاتها، كتقديمهم ترجمات مختلفة لموسيقى المهرجان المصرية. خلال السنوات الماضية، تنقَّل الموسيقيون سويةً بين استوديوهات تسجيل في القاهرة والاسكندرية وبيروت وعمان خلال رحلة بحث عن صوتهم المشترك، وجاءت النتيجة في الألبوم المشترك، الإخفاء.

انتجت الألبوم شركة مستقل بدعم من الصندوق العربي للثقافة والفنون (اّفاق)

Three musicians who came of age in 1990s Cairo, their disparate paths in music intersect a couple of decades later when they’re drawn to each other’s work, and agree to meet at a seaside cabin in Alexandria, followed by residencies in Amman, Cairo, and Beirut to create and record a new album.

Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca and and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, names that have turned heads in alternative Arabic music with solo albums and conspicuous collaborations, with Lekhfa they give birth to an off kilter sound where layers of grit and beauty intertwine in and around the dystopian poems of their contemporary Mido Zoheir, whom they've dubbed the fourth member in this creation and one of the most talented Egyptian poets of their generation. 

The album is produced by Mostakell with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)

Credits:

مريم صالح و تامر أبو غزالة : غناء
موريس لوقا: إيقاعات الكترونية، الكترونيات، سينثسايزر، كيبور، سلايد جيتار، جيتار، هارمونيوم
تامر أبو غزالة: أعواد، بزق، مزمار، غناء، سينثسايزر، كيبورد، سينثسايزر باص، جيتار الكتريك، باص جيتار
خالد ياسين: درامز وإيقاعات
محمود والي: باص جيتار
غلاف الألبوم: رسم و تصميمات جورج عزمي، خطوط وتصميم أحمد حمود.
تسجيل: جواد شعبان وموريس لوقا وتامر أبو غزالة وخيام اللامي في استوديو وان هيرتز، بيروت – لبنان.
مزج: خيّام اللامي في استوديو وان هيرتز، بيروت – لبنان، أغنية عايز أوصل من  مزج خيّام اللامي وأدهم زيدان.
ماستر: جون دينت في استوديو لاود ماسترنج، بريستول – المملكة المتحدة

Khaled Yassine: Drums, Percussions|Mahmoud Waly: Bass Guitar|Maryam Saleh: Vocals |Maurice Louca: Percussion & Beat Loops, Electronics, Synths, Keys, Slide Guitar, Guitar, Harmonium|Tamer Abu Ghazaleh: Ouds, Buzuq, Mizmar, Vocals, Synths, Keys, Synth Bass, Electric Guitar, Bass |Shadi El Hosseiny (Track#10): Electric Piano| Paed Conca (Track#5): Clarinet| Trad Trad (Track#5): Clarinet| All Lyrics by Mido Zohair| All compositions & arrangements by Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca, and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh | Illustration & Artwork: George Azmy |Cover Design & Fonts: Ahmed Hammoud |Recorded by Jawad Chaaban, Maurice Louca, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, and Khyam Allami at One Hertz Studio, Beirut – Lebanon| All tracks Mixed by Khyam Allami at One Hertz Studio, Beirut – Lebanon.| Ayez Awsal mixed by Khyam Allami and Adham Zidan.| Mastered by John Dent at Loud Mastering Studios, Bristol – UK.

Lekhfa الإخفاء

El Shahwa Wel Soaar

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Pentamerone pour quatuor à cordes, 1 MVT.
-Quatuor Béla

Pentamerone- Le premier jour

New York City based composer, pianist and video artist Brian Mark has been hailed as an "attractive and intelligible" artist (Boston Musical Intelligencer), whose work is "compelling" (London Jazz News), and "preserves the vibrancy and relevance of contemporary art music" (New York Examiner). The American Composers Forum esteemed Brian as an "intelligent, modern composer who employs many media elements and does so with marked idiosyncrasy and depth”, and his concert programming has recently been described as “a fluid approach to presenting new music in fresh contexts and juxtapositions” (The New Yorker).

Brian’s music have been performed by many notable ensembles, such as the BBC Singers, Psappha Ensemble, Chelsea Symphony, Ensemble Signal, Atlas Ensemble, MikroEnsemble, Brave New Works, Choral Chameleon, both the Ligeti and Esterhazy String Quartets, Juventas Ensemble, Dither Quartet, members of the London Symphony Orchestra, among many others. His works have been presented around the world in festivals such as Bang on a Can, MATA, Oregon Bach Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, Atlas Festival, Spitalfields Music Festival, i=u, June in Buffalo, Tutti Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the highSCORE Festival.

Brian has recently been awarded a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council.  He has also received multiple awards and grants from the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program/Jerome Fund, New Music USA, the Grammy Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ASCAP and SCI, New London Singers, Ross McKee Foundation, Florence Gould Michael Iovenko Memorial Fellowship, the BMI Henry Warren Film Scoring Award, and was very highly commended for the 2016 Alan Bush Prize.  He has been featured as a composer-in-residence with the Chelsea Symphony, the Bizarre Noir Theatre Company, and was awarded multiple artist residencies at the I-Park Artists’ Enclave, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation.  He has received an Honorable Mention from the 2015 American Prize in Orchestral Composition, and recently was awarded one of the top ten prizes from Mozaik’s Philanthropy’s “Future Art Awards” Competition for works created in response to COVID-19.  In 2019 Brian also received a fellowship to study Korean Music at the National Gugak Centre in Seoul.   

As a composer for film, his music for the Independent Short Film Misunderstood, directed by Pablo Herrán de Viu, was exhibited at the 2009 Screen Loud Film Festival in New York City, and the 2010 Festival Internacional de Cine Pobre de Humberto Solás in Habana City, Cuba. His collaborative work Sublime Oasis, commissioned by the East London Dance Company, was showcased at the 2012 Spitalfields Hidden Gems Dance Festival.

From 2009-2011 Brian was the Co-Artistic Director and Founder for DETOUR, a composer collective and New Music Ensemble, which was featured as “one the top five new music events of 2011" from New York’s Classical WQXR. He has also collaborated with UK’s record label Nonclassical as a concert curator, featuring emerging composers and artists throughout London and abroad. In addition, he was appointed as an Associate Member for the London Symphony Orchestra’s Composer Soundhub Scheme from 2015-2017, which culminated of his first video installation performance comprising of members from the LSO.  His curated concert series Ensemble in Process made its debut at the Iklectik Creative Space in Southeast London on 15 May, 2017.

Brian had completed his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Gary Carpenter.  He is also a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Berklee College of Music, and Boston University.  He has received a graduate certificate in film scoring from the University of Southern California, and has also studied with Philip Cashian, Samuel Adler, David Conte, David Garner, James Russell Smith, and Howard Frazin.