"Love to love your strings, baby" is an affectionate homage to disco strings.  I've taken inspiration from Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra, from the New York, Philadelphia and many other symphony orchestras, and the great arrangers who had a role in developing the disco sound.  My piece takes motifs and fragments from the golden era of disco and weaves them together with my own original themes to present a fantasy montage.  The title refers, of course, to the 1975 Donna Summer hit "Love to love you, baby."  It was composed for, and is dedicated to the Camerata of St. Johns.  Many thanks to the Australia Council for the Arts for their generous support.

Camerata of St. Johns string orchestra, Brisbane.
Performed 14th December 2013 at Queensland Conservatorium.
Created with generous support from Australia Council for the Arts. 

www.erikgriswold.org
www.camerata.net.au

Love To Love Your Strings Baby (2013) - Camerata of St. Johns string orchestra

'Crocodile' - from Rogue

'Swimming' from Rogue

Bells

Written for solo prepared piano, this is my version of the Cuban guaguanco rhythm, from the piece "Three Latin Rhythms". It was recorded for my album "More than my old piano" as well as Gabriella Smart's album "Chinese Whispers". It was the theme music for ABC Classic FM's coverage of the ICSM World Music Days in Sydney 2010. Gabriella Smart also recorded this for Move Records.

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Guaguanco - from Three Latin Rhythms (2002)

This Land is Mine (arr. Neal)

Heather
by James Wilkinson 
( & Steve Heather)
Strings: Neal

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Afterall - from the staged theatre work 'Permission to Speak', produced by Chamber Made, directed/conceived Tamara Saulwick, sung by Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis, Josh Kyle, Ed Fairlie

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Annie's Violence - from the staged theatre work 'Permission to Speak' produced by Chamber Made, directed/conceived Tamara Saulwick. Sung by Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis, Josh Kyle, Ed Fairlie.

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Guaguanco - from Three Latin Rhythms (2002)

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