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Eleni Karaindrou - Adagio (From the Movie-Landscape in the Mist)

Balakirev's transcription for solo piano of the slow movement of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto. Chopin wrote it when he was still a teenager. Precocious bastard.

Chopin (arr. Balakirev) Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 11  Romanza

Produced by Joe Kearns and Chris Ketley
Engineered and Mixed by Joe Kearns
Assisted by Andy Cook
Mastered by Naweed Ahmed
Recorded and Mixed at British Grove Studios
Mastered at Whitfield Mastering

Arranged by Chris Ketley, Joe Kearns and Ellie Goulding
Vocals and Guitar by Ellie Goulding
Piano by Chris Ketley
Violin by Izzy Judd
Cello by Caroline Dale
Programming by Joe Kearns


Ellie Goulding - All I Want (Kodaline Cover)

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Musical Energy: A Transformational Journey via Digital Violin. A special collection of magical performance moments captured during Dixon's recent North American tours.

I am so excited to share this music with you! It has now been 2 years since I left the corporate world to followup this dream full-time, and likewise 2 years since my last CD. So much has changed - it's a completely new world, and I feel like the luckiest person alive! I am so grateful to you all for listening and spreading the word, and to the folks that create the spaces where I can share what I do live.

Special thanks to my Love, Leslie "Light Bearer" Blackburn - you are my goddess, my sweetie. I am honored to be your Jade Dragon.

- Dixon

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The Forest (live looped electric violin)

Alchemy (live looped electric violin)

Free Time (live looped electric violin)

Space Journey (live looped electric violin)

Undercurrents (live looped electric violin)

Kali (live looped electric violin)

Noir (live looped electric violin)

Love's Joy (live looped electric violin)

Jade Dragon (live looped electric violin)

when the violin talks

M. Geddes Gengras - "Ishi" June 24th
180g 12" tip-on _ CD & digital include 40min bonus 'Vigil'
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mgg/ishi

“No dream, no wildest nightmare, prefigured for Ishi a city crowd, its clamor, its endless hurrying past to be endlessly replaced by others of its kind, face indistinguishable from face.”

- Theodora Kroeber, from Ishi: In Two Worlds


M. Geddes Gengras has inhabited the Los Angeles experimental music scene for the last 7 years, bouncing through various bands, monikers, and a critically acclaimed collaboration with Sun Araw and The Congos. The producer perhaps shines most brightly, however, when left to his own bespoke devices. His solo work is largely based in modular synthesis, comfortably straddling a variety of forms while remaining rooted in a deep affinity for the limitations of analog electronics and a keen ear for timbral manipulation.


Ishi finds the producer diving headlong into beautiful, sprawling ambient explorations and deep, mystical drone. Its title is the name given to “the last wild Indian” in North America, who emerged in 1911 at the age of 49. Hidden all his life in the wilderness of northern California, Ishi spent most of his life completely unexposed to the modern world lurking just beyond his own timeless reality. His only exposure to the “civilized” world came from Gold Rush settlers, whom he watched massacre and disease each and every member of his family and tribe, until he alone remained. When he was found, communication between the miraculous survivor and this strange new world was understandably difficult and frightening— but the knowledge gained through the process proved invaluable.


Sometimes the most effective and direct means of communication and understanding exist outside of human language. Gengras’ highly expressive instrumental record reveals itself via sweeping tonal gestures and striking, intensely colorful washes of heavily processed electronic sound. “Ambient” is insufficient to describe the uniquely evocative soundtrack presented here, a lushly nuanced sound world generated directly from the deeply personal relationship between one man and his meticulously cultivated machines.


“The record is about the schism that exists between the world we live in and those stuck on the margins of it— perpetual outsiders and their quest to understand the torrent of information they are constantly subjected to. I was directly inspired to these pieces by two people in my orbit who died this year, one accidentally and one not, both of whom suffered this affliction and eventually lost their lives to it. The music was a reaction to these losses and a sort of offering of something peaceful but at the same time respectful of the conflict and dissonance of life, with movement always in the distance. I look at it as music for passage between different realms, conscious & un, this world & another, layers of reality... ISHI is a metaphor for that— the man who walks into our world understanding none of it but forced to live in it regardless. This is somewhere in between a prayer and a lullaby for him and for the rest of them, but also something for those of us left behind.” - M. Geddes Gengras

M. Geddes Gengras - Passage

The collaboration between Quixotic and The Human Experience expands beyond the sonic experience and into the mixed media world. Quixotic blends world class music with performance art, using cutting edge visual projections with aerial, dance, and fire ballet to convey mysterious and beautiful worlds. On this release, Quixotic's own live band collaborated with David Block's cinematic compositions to create a synesthetic explosion on the senses.

Over the course of two years, Block worked with Shane Borth (Violin/Viola) and Anthony Magliano (Hang Drum/Percussion), sending files back and forth, receiving direction from Borth and Magliano as to what kind of musical landscapes they were envisioning for the performance.  Finally, "From The Outside Looking In" was born.

The album weaves together sounds from around the world.  Listeners can expect a palette of sensual, global, organic-electronica, fit for one of the most mesmerizing performances on earth.

ABOUT "QUIXOTIC" - CREATIVE VISION:
 
Art that enchants, invigorates, and awakens the imagination has always been born of the rule breakers, and no one is breaking the rules more joyously, more fervently, than Kansas City’s own Quixotic. A melting pot of dance, aerial acrobatics, projection mapping, high fashion, and original live music, Quixotic is a cornucopia of mystical majesty that enraptures audiences who have never even dreamed a night at the theater could be so much fun. Sleek dancers pushing the boundaries of athletic artistry soar across neon skies that encompass and envelop traditional and non-traditional venues, bathing structures and painting new nature on old, in a vivid fantasy world. Evocative tribal electronica sets the stage for the visual panoply of color and agility in flight. Even the aural accompaniment blurs the lines between stylistic worlds, blending organic instrumentations of lush strings and primal drums with digital symphonies of programmed beats and bellowing subsonic frequencies.

Founded in 2005 by renowned graphic designer, percussionist, and artistic director Anthony Magliano, and joined a year later by award-winning lighting and theater technology guru Mica Thomas, Quixotic’s mission statement was to tear down the walls that cloistered each discipline of the arts, unleashing a flood of new ideas that would wash away the staid norms of traditional theatre performance. It is the joint vision of Magliano and Thomas that has taken the loose collective of avant garde trendsetters and molded them into what the New York Times branded an “innovative circus [company].” This ultra-modern, multi-sensory experience shatters antiquated notions of “a night at the ballet.”

The stunning and surreal environments that set the scene for this experimental movement troupe has aligned its performers with the most progressive acts in the electronic music scene (Dave Tipper and Shpongle, among others), but its undeniable grace, transcendent athleticism, and dogmatic dedication to haute couture also allows Quixotic to flawlessly complement the Kansas City Symphony.

The raw power, immersive experience, and sheer mesmerizing artistry of Quixotic Fusion cannot be conveyed through words, nor can audio or video alone capture the magic of an intense, firsthand glimpse of the collective in action. To truly get a sense of what it is to leave the earthly realm and enter a digital landscape of breathtaking wonder, where the bounds of genre—and gravity—have no meaning; you have to be there to believe it.

Quixotic & The Human Experience - Ot Du Shi (Whitebear Remix)

With squelchy delight, Shanti Planti is proud to release the first premier of a two part VA – Rhythm Code. Featuring 15 producers from the USA, France, UK, Australia and New Zealand, this VA is soaked in dreamy eastern instrumentals, squidgy crunches and soul shaking bass lines. Rhythm Code showcases a mind expanding stew of psydub and midtempo treasures. Each track was donated without intention of individual profit but in means to support expansion and to help sustain the auditory collective, Shanti Planti.

Credits:
Mastering by Saxon Higgs 
Album Art by Tom Chant 

Sixis & Shwex - Continuity Field

As a new step in my journey, this past year I’ve made the leap and created my own record label entitled “Orphic Recordings.” It’s currently a small team, but we’ve got big visions and big plans, and I want to invite you on this journey with us. 

In celebration of this, as a starting “Hello,” I’m also giving away an unreleased track which was originally going to be on the album, but didn’t make the final cut. 
Visit the Orphic Recordings Facebook, and keep your eyes peeled, as we’ll also be peppering the page with a few exclusives in the comings months.

Thank you all so much for your constant support and energy - you’re a driving force behind a genre of music that I genuinely feel is the future of music to come. 


"End Silence" is coming… Early November. 

https://www.facebook.com/orphicrecordings
http://www.orphicrecordings.com

Sincerely,
Cryptex 


Beginning

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Recorded live during the DAMNED show in Detroit in October 2014, which is an amazing "exhibition of enlightened darkness" that I've been honored to be a part of since it's inception (see http://www.thatdamnedshow.com).  In addition to stunning visual art, there are performance vignettes throughout the evening by some of the areas most creative and talented performers.  I highly recommend the event - there really isn't anything else like it in the country.

I provided the musical backdrop for each of the performances this particular night, and the music was entirely improvised based on the energy each vignette suggested.  Towards the end of the evening I co-created with a dear friend, Ms. Chantal, of Masala Dances (see http://masaladances.com), who provided a stunning movement performance...while covered in mud.  The effect was amazingly dramatic and the audience was mesmerized - although it was actually freezing cold for her!  It was truly a magical artistic moment, I'm thrilled that the audio recording of it turned out, and I'm honored to share it with you.

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I am so grateful and honored to be sharing musical energy full-time now as a performing artist! I left the corporate world at the end of 2010, having chosen to pursue my authentic calling. I feel more on path and alive than ever! I love it AND it’s really hard work... and I could use your help! I am offering this track for free, and if you can afford more than that, it greatly helps me on this path! Other ways you can help are listed at http://www.dixonsviolin.com/support-dixon.html

Thank you so much for your support!

- Dixon

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Many thanks to Chris Switzer for capturing the image above from the live performance!  Visit Chris Switzer Photography at https://www.facebook.com/cswitzerphoto

Liquid Earth (live looped electric violin)

This was recorded Live at Bamm.Tv studio in San Francisco.  Such an amazing process collaborating with all of these amazing human beings.  Check the live video at www.HumanExperienceCreations.com

From my new album "Harmonic Transformation" 

Download the entire 14 song album at
www.HumanExperienceCreations.com

The Human Experience - WHEN I GROW UP (Feat Amae Love Live from Bamm)

I was just practicing tonight and felt like recording one of the pieces.  Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2, or otherwise known as 'Quasi una fantasia' or the 'Moonlight Sonata'.  I recorded this on a Steinway D and mastered it in my mastering studio www.alpinemastering.com  

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Classical Piano Pieces Volume I

Moonlight Sonata

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Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Glenn playing on a Steinway D)

مشينا

Remixed - Head Pond (Tantrum Mix)

In dedication to the Neurovation Comp and charity: water - Here is my newest original track, "Breaker" - It's a combination of glitch hop, dubstep, with a little shake up of something new.

This, along with a heap of amazing originals are included on the comp, and 100% of the proceeds will be going to charity: water. Check it out here!

http://gravitasrecordings.com/psymbionic-presents-neurovation/


 Keep it glitchin' 

-Cryptex

Glitch it/Buy it now

Cryptex - Breaker [OUT NOW]

arr. by trubaduo
violin:Anıl Gündoğan
guitar:Murat Bozyiğit
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El valse (Eleni Karaindrou)

زار - فيلم ميكروفون - صوت فى الزحمه

Mohamed Fouad Mhtar Ana - محمد فؤاد محتار أنا

Mohamed Fouad Maak - محمد فؤاد معاك

This is the first song from my upcoming EP collaboration with "Rising Appalachia".  If you dont know who they are, I recommend that you educate yourself swiftly as they are the JAM;  Beautiful, elegant, sultry sisters from the South.  

Leah and Chloe play Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar, and create eloquent vocal harmonies that melt my heart.  We met 4 years ago in India and have reconnected to blend our sounds together.

They compose original music as well as traditional music from around the world.  This song "Sunu" is an african/appalachian fusion piece.  

We have had several rag tag recording sessions around the US (pictures coming soon hehe) and have had some of the most fun I have ever had in my life collaborating.  The Joy I have in my heart when I create this music is inexplicable in words.  This project makes me feel bliss.  

We're working on a full live performance also which is....dare I say.... mucho legendary

Love,
David 

Our 6 song EP "Soul Visions"

SUNU

A Thousand Years (guitar cover)

You've never heard violin like this!  The world's premier visionary violinist, Dixon's life mission is to inspire people - and he has done so across North America, including giving four TED talks/performances, over ten years at Burning Man and Electric Forest, plus radio, TV, and film appearances.  A former technology leader and symphony violinist, Dixon walked away from a distinguished career to follow his dream full-time, and invented a whole new music genre.  Dixon now improvises on a 5-string electric violin with a looping system he developed to create an all-live one-man symphony, guided by his remarkable personal story of life transformation.

Alchemy (live looped electric violin)

Dixon's Violin