THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs UNBOUNDED CONFUSIASM, Op. 139, No. 10, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

UNBOUNDED CONFUSIASM, Op. 139, No. 10

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ANYMORE, Op. 139, No. 9, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ANYMORE, Op. 139, No. 9

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs RUN-O'-THE-NIL SHENANTICS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND, Op. 139, No. 7 (October 18th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

RUN- O'-THE-NIL SHENANTICS, Op. 139, No. 7

The 5th movement is the soundtrack to a fantasy newsreel that depicts the hopeful rapid rebuilding of Fukushima and the healthy return to life.

Silent Harvest - 5th Movement "The Rising"

Instrumental mix of "Intelligent Life" from the album "Rhapsody & Filigree."

bass, electric guitar, baritone electric guitar, nylon guitars, piano, arranging - Brian Woodbury
drums, percussion, sampled typewriter, sampled footstomps and claps, co-arranging - Jonathan Feinberg
trumpets - Chris Tedesco
violins - Sara Parkins
mixing - Dan Cubert

Intelligent Life instrumental mix - Brian Woodbury

Words and music by Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider.

Trapped in a shell, my intention is strong
With a mouthful of water, I can break through a stone
Carried on a dove, I have dropped from the sky
Now the ground is above and my goal is set high

Reach out with a kiss from my mother
Reach out just to smile at my father

Straight like a wand, my magic is simple
Sensing your laughter, the breeze makes me nimble
My colors displayed, I am ready to travel
On the back of a bee, all my children unravel

Reach Out

Sailor's Grave on the Prairie

Produced by Kimara Sajn

Recorded mostly live in realtime between 2009-2024 at Precognitive Studios, WA

All sound qualities intentional

Kim Sajn: percussion, bass, keyboards, tapes, vocals, misc

Special thanks: B.Sue Johnson, Brian Burman, Matt Baber, Mike Johnson, Dave Willey, Mike Keneally, Amy Denio, Janet Feder, John Hanavan, Amy and Alan Benjamin, Dick Heath, Deb Sears, Marina Organ, Ed Dickie and Tim Falconer

all music by Kimara Sajn 

©2024 Precognitive Music (ASCAP)

Cry Pray Dance

For The Morning Light

Goodbye Chance

Composed for the Locrian Chamber Players.

Performed by members of the Locrian Chamber Players: Erin Lesser, flute, Gregory Hesselink, cello, Blair McMillen, piano, and Anna Reinersman, harp.

Live premiere performance from August of 2008, Riverside Church, NYC

Published by APNM (Association for the Promotion of New Music).

Sultry Air, Balmy Breezes was composed in 2008 for The Locrian Chamber Players at the request of its director, my Manhattan School of Music colleague David Macdonald. The excellent players were Erin Lesser, flute, Gregory Hesselink, cello, Blair McMillen, piano, and Anna Reinersman, harp. It bears a dedication to Nils Vigeland, former Chair of the Composition Department at MSM.

In its atmospheric quality and emphasis on color, both harmonic and timbral, Sultry Air, Balmy Breezes strikes me as having been influenced by many characteristics I admire in twentieth century French music by composers such as Debussy, Ravel, and Messiaen. While I could not find an appropriate French title that wouldn’t come across as pretentious, I nonetheless allowed a bit of affectation to creep in by way of using French tempo indications and expressive markings as my homage to the tradition that inspired me. The work begins with an ascending, sweeping, and rather metallic sounding gesture that combines the piano with a harp glissando that features clashing strings. Over an accompaniment of isolated harp harmonics and other discrete sounds, the flute begins a solo that eventually will climb from its sultry lowest register to the first climax of the piece, where it is supported by lush chords in the harp, piano and pizzicato cello. (The unison doubling of chords in piano and harp is one of my favorite sonorities, one that I first came to appreciate in Britten’s Cantata misericordium.) After another upward flourish in the piano and harp and a brief reminiscence of the opening material, a faster, breezier section begins, gradually acquiring its own groove, mostly in 5/8 meter. After a couple more passionate climactic passages, this section gradually begins to dissipate, and slower music (marked Modéré) takes over, initiated by a flute trill before that instrument disappears, ceding the spotlight to the solo cello, accompanied once more by the chordal cushioning of the unison piano and harp. Just before the end, the flute — marked nonchalant — returns for its final say.

—Hayes Biggs, 2019

Sultry Air, Balmy Breezes (2008)

Funiculì Funiculà

Translated from the Neapolitan into Portuguese by Tars Cunha, with Jonathan Feinberg and Kitia Gonzaga.

Requested by Elma Mayer, in the style of Gilberto Gil circa 1968, or other Tropicalia / Psychedelia. (Not in the style of Richard Strauss or Arnold Schönberg, both of whom already did it.)

Funiculì Funiculà

A songwriters' songwriters' songwriter, and aspiring songwriters' songwriter.

Intelligent Life instrumental mix - Brian Woodbury

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