Club Crawl by Gene Pritsker
for chamber ensemble and DJ. 
Performed by Absolute Ensemble, 
feat. Mr. Switch, Kristjan Jarvi - conductor
at Bremen MusikFest 2017

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Club Crawl

Variations On Japanese Melodies  for violin and orchestra 
movement 1 - Sakura, Sakura
by Gene Pritsker
performed at the Parnu Music Festival in Estonia by the Riga Sinfonietta with Anne Akiko Meyers - violin and Kristjan Jarvi conducting

Variations On Japanese Melodies - Sakura, Sakura

Orchestra Music REEL

Dodecamountainphonic II  by Gene Pritsker
performed by the Outreach Orchestra at the Outreach Festival 2013

Dodecamountainphonic II

'A Remark You Made' by Joe Zawinul, arranged for string quartet by Gene Pritsker. performed by the Absolute Ensemble in Bremen, Germany.

A Remark You Made (Joe Zawinul) arr. Gene Pritsker

Sound Liberation's new album 'Days' on Composers Concordance Records 
Release March 2014. 

Sound Liberation is an eclectic group that performs music encompassing a diverse range of musical genres. The new album 'DAYS,' focuses on r&b and hip-hop, with songs and raps that are still new, eclectic and span the world of sound but emphasize the two popular genres. The singles: 'Breath' and 'Need' feature the fabulous vocals of Chanda Rule. These songs are influenced by r&b, rock, chamber music, and hip-hop rhythms and incorporate the groups musical philosophy, developed by band founder Gene Pritsker, which is based upon "ending the segregation of sound vibration (i.e. musical Genres)". Hip-hop anthems like 'Rap Sense', 'Loan Shark' and 'Capitalism Running Wild' are taken from Gene Pritsker's hip-hop-chamber opera 'Money'. The title track 'Days' is a dupstep remix of a song form our last album 'Open Up Your Ears & Get Some' while 'What Shall I Do' is a voice, guitar and string quartet arrangement of a song from that same album. 'Closer to Me than My Own Breath' is an aria form Pritsker's chamber opera William James Varieties of religious Experience'. 'Fake' and 'Tragic' are hip-hop jams based on orchestral samples. The last 2 tracks on the album are from a live concert at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC.

“When a composer gets into R&B/Rock/Pop you expect something interesting. And with Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation you get it. this is some startlingly original music. I am very encouraged when I hear music like this."
- Gapplegate Guitar & Bass Blog writes in Nov. 2010

“Sound Liberation display a level of multi-instrumental virtuosity and imagination that makes middleweight prog acts seem positively pedestrian by comparison. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea for sure but for the open-minded muso, there’s weeks and weeks of musical nourishment to feast upon in these thirteen tracks.“
- Jodi Mullen, This is Not A Scene 2012

"The future belongs to Sound Liberation . . . even if takes a while to get there"
- Frank Bender- Ragazzi online magazine, March '09

Sound Liberation - DAYS Sampler

'Oh Come To The Window' by Gene Pritsker (based on "Deh vieni alla finestra" from Mozart's "Don Giovanni") - performed by Sound Liberation

Oh Come To The Window

Better Now 
Sound Liberation  

COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE RECORDS
COMCON0078     Release:  6/3/2023  
Bar Code: 682500379765

Sound Liberation’s 9th studio album, ‘Better Now’, continues the bands eclectic musical exploration. Sound Liberation's musical philosophy, developed by band founder Gene Pritsker, is based upon "ending the segregation of sound vibration (i.e. musical Genres)". The group incorporates its philosophy by performing compositions that encompass a diverse range of musical genre, heavily influenced by hip-hop and rock rhythms. This enables one to hear elements from classical music to Jazz to music of various cultures at a Sound Liberation show.

On ‘Better Now’ Gene Pritsker’s compositions explore soul, hip-hop, modern jazz, cross over classical, blues, r&b, jazz fusion and more. Recorded over a period of two years in various locations and studios, some tracks recorded remotely some in a studio station. The album takes you on a no holds bar genre defying journey that is the defining style of Sound Liberation. 

https://naxos.lnk.to/Better

Track List:
1. Quarantine Bues 	-  Music: Gene Pritsker
	Franz Hackl - trumpet
	Gene Pritsker - guitar
	Clemens Rofner - bass
	Simon Springer - drums 	

Mixed by Gene Pritsker 
Mastered By Velizar Iordanov

GENRE: JAZZ FUSION
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2. Time Does Not Bring Relief 
-  Music: Gene Pritsker, Words: Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Adriana Valdés -voice
	David Banks - voice	
	Gene Pritsker - guitar 
	Franz Hackl - trumpet
	Paul Carlon - sax
	Jose Moura - bass
	Joe Abba - drums 

Mixed and mastered By Ehab Omar

GENRE: NEO SOUL / CROSSOVER CLASSICAL
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3. Outside 	-  Music: Gene Pritsker & David Banks, Words: David Banks 	
	David Banks - voice			
	Gerry Brown - drums
	Lynn Bechtold - violins/viola
	Gene Pritsker - piano 

Mixed and Mastered  by Gene Pritsker 

GENRE: SOUL/R&B
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4. Better Now -  Music: Gene Pritsker, Words: Gene Pritsker / David Banks 				David Banks - voice	
	Gene Pritsker - rap / piano
	Gerry Brown - drums 

Mixed by Gene Pritsker 
Mastered By Velizar Iordanov

GENRE: HIP-HOP
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5. Path 						 - Words & Music: Gene Pritsker
	David Banks - voice	
	Lynn Bechtold - violins 

Mixed by Gene Pritsker 
Mastered By Ehab Omar

GENRE:  POP / R&B
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	Sadness Expensive Prayer 		
6. No I'm Not Allowed To Touch The World	
		-  Music: Gene Pritsker, Words: Erik T. Johnson 
7 Unreachable Light			
		-  Music: Gene Pritsker
8 The difference Unhappiness			
		-  Music: Gene Pritsker, Words: Robert C. Ford
	Adriana Valdés -voice
	Erik T. Johnson - poet/narrator
	Gene Pritsker - guitar 
	Franz Hackl - trumpet
	Melissa Slocum - bass
	Gerry Brown - drums

Mixed by Gene Pritsker 
Mastered By Velizar Iordanov

GENRE: MODERN JAZZ
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9. I’m On A Lucky Streak With You		- Words & Music: Gene Pritsker
	David Banks - voice	
	Gene Pritsker - guitar 
	Larry Goldman - bass
	David Cossin - Drums
	Solos by: 
	Greg Baker, Jacob Horowitz, Tom Halpenny, - guitar,  Petro Krysa - violin

Mixed and Mastered  by Gene Pritsker 

GENRE: BLUES / ROCK
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10. Vivaldi’s Hot House 	 - Music: Gene Pritsker/Antonio Vivaldi/Tadd Dameron
	Lara St. John - violin
	Gene Pritsker - guitar
	Wayne Dumaine - trumpet
	Colin Brookes- viola 
	Grace Ho  -  cello  
	Melissa Slocum - bass
	David Rozenblatt - drums 

Mixed and Mastered  by Dan Weiner

GENRE: CROSSOVER CLASSICAL / JAZZ
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10 Vivaldi's Hot House

PATH

4 Better Now

3 Outside

2 Time Does Not Bring Relief

1 Quarantine Blues

'What Occured In The Light Goes On In The Dark' 
for solo cello
performed by Dan Barrett from the album 'Solo-Duo-Trio-Quartet-Quintet: Chamber Electronic Music of Gene Pritsker'

In “What Occurred In The Light, Goes On In The Dark” I was interested in writing counterpoint for the cello. The main melody gets treated as a fugue subject, without really becoming a full fledged fugue. The material of the last section is first hinted at in the first slow section laid between the cracks of counterpoint, it is then fully developed to the end when the first melody comes back to climax the work to its finish

'What Occurred In The Light Goes On In The Dark'  for solo cello

Cancer Ward for percussion quartet
by Gene Pritsker
performed by Talujon Percussion Quartet

Gene Pritsker chamber

Cancer Ward

Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa Arr. Gene Pritkser

My chamber arrangement of James Browns Super bad as performed by the Absolute Ensemble from the album 'Fix' on Enja Records 

Super Bad arr. by Gene Pritsker

OUTREACH ORCHESTRA '08
 Come On In My Kitchen                                   
by Gene Pritsker
Franz Hackl and Lew Soloff (Trumpets), Mike Keneally (Guitar), Thomas Kugi (Sax), John Clark Horn), Gene Pritsker (Guitar/Rap), Dave Taylor (Bass trombone), Bryan Beller (Bass), John Sass (Tuba), Marco Minnemann (Drums), Adam Holzman (Keyboards)
performed at the Outreach festival '08 in Schwaz Austria

Come On In My Kitchen

Just Make It Babe Make It for flute and piano 
This piece is based on the poem Making It by Charles Bukowski 

ignore all possible concepts and possibilities ---
ignore Beethoven, the spider, the damnation of Faust ---
just make it, babe, make it:
a house  a car   a belly full of beans
pay your taxes
fuck
and if you can't fuck
copulate.
make money but don't work too
hard --- make somebody else pay to
make it --- and
don't smoke too much but drink enough to
relax, and
stay off the streets
wipe your ass real good
use a lot of toilet paper
it's bad manners to let people know you shit or
could smell like it
if you weren't
careful


Just Make It Babe Make It

The aria 'Is There Someone Else' from the chamber opera 'Manhattan in Charcoal ' by Gene Pritsker poem/libretto by Jacob Miller 

'Is There Someone Else' from the chamber opera Manhattan in Charcoal

Saxophonist Yaacov Mayman joins composer, DJ, Guitarist Gene Pritsker aka Di.J. Noizepunk for an album that blends jazz standards, hip-hop beats, electronic grooves, contemporary compositions and improvisation. The Mayman/Pritsker Project features Yevgeny Lebedev on Keys and Aleksandra (Mogilevich) Mayman on drums. The compositions ‘Gas Choral II’ features Borislav Strulev on cello. Composers Concordance Records is excited to release this eclectic album with compositions by J.S. Bach, George Gershwin, Herbie Hancock, Yaacov Mayman, Gene Pritsker, Juan Tizol. 

Mayman Pritsker Project - Sampler

No Conviction, A Hope And That Is All 
for 2 violins by Gene Pritsker
Gregor Kitzis & Hajnal K. Pivnick - violins
Performed as part of 'Gene & The Violinists 
The violin music of Gene Pritsker' at 
Gallery at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday, Feb. 18th 2016 


No Conviction, A Hope And That Is All

'We Are Spinning Our Own Fates' by Gene Pritsker 
For string quartet, bass, tabla, Di.J. 

Berliner Camerata Sting Quartet:
Olga Pak, Leila Akhmetova - Violins, Yann Merker - viola,
Jens Domeyer - cello, Paul Kleber - bass , Bodek Janke -tabla, 
Gene Pritsker -  conductor

Performed at the 2016 XJAZZ Festival, Emmauskirche, Berlin, Germany 

We Are Spinning Our Own Fates

'Money & Politics' 
from the chamber hip-hop opera Money by Gene Pritsker
Featuring Dave taylor - narrator
With: 
David Gotay  - cello				
Franz  Hackl - trumpet		
Gene Pritsker - guita
Greg  Baker - guitar
Mat  Fieldes - contra bass
David Rozenblatt - drums

“Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then you will find that money cannot be eaten. “ - Cree Indian Prophecy 

“Money is now considered the single most important factor in our electoral process. Ideas and issues take a backseat to the bottom line.” - Amy Goodman

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” - P.J. O'Rourke

“The sort of money that is spent in politics, it is not possible for common citizens, normal people to fight elections.” - Imran Khan

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not 
clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhow

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato

'Money & Politics'

Club Crawl by Gene Pritsker
for chamber ensemble and DJ. 
Performed by Absolute Ensemble, 
feat. Mr. Switch, Krisjan Jarvi - conductor
at Bremen MusikFest 2017

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Club Crawl - 3. Jazz Open Jam

Club Crawl - 2. Fashion Runway

Club Crawl - 1. Latin Quarters

'Fear & Nasty' from 'Trump - a Di.J. Concerto' by Gene Pritsker
performed  at the 2017 Impuls Festival in Halle, Germany 
at Steintor-Varieté hall. 
Gene Pritsker -  Di.J. with the MDR Symphony,  Ulrich Kern - conductor.

'Fear & Nasty' from 'Trump - a Di.J. Concerto

I Knew A Woman from POETIC SUBJECTS ETERNAL
by Gene Pritsker 
poetry: Theodore Roethke
For baritone and Sampelstra
performed by Charles Coleman

I Knew A Woman

Latvian ReMix - by Gene Pritsker aka Di.J. Noizepunk

Latvian ReMix

No Truth - a hip hop song by Gene Pritsker (based on Bach's Cantata No. 106)
Gene 'Noizepunk' Pritsker - rap, Dave 'Criminal Cello' Gotay - rap/cello, James Gotay - Rap, Charles ' Das Krooner' Coleman - voice, greg Baker - guitar, Mat Fieldes - bass, Dave Rozenblatt - drums, Pablo Rieppi - percussion.

Open Up Your Ears And Get Some

No Truth

Transfigured Swing by Gene Pritsker based on Arnold Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht
Performed by The Outreach Orchestra

Transfigured Swing

Berlin Suite by Gene Pritsker
Movement 2: 'You are crazy, my child. You must go to Berlin'
Performed by Absolute Ensemble
Michiyo Suzuki - clarinet
Daniel Schnyder - sax
Charlie Porter - trumpet
Christophe Schweizer - trombone
Vesselin Gellev - violin
Lucio Amanti - cello 
Gene Pritsker - guitar
Kristjan Randalu  -piano 
Mat Fieldes - bass
Damien Bassman - drums
Kristjan Jarvi - conductor

'Berlin Suite' Movement 2: 'You are crazy, my child. You must go to Berlin'

Plane by Gene Pritsker
for Viola, Cello and Contra Bass

Performed at the Iron Composer 2014 competition by Scott Dixon (bass), Laura Shuster (viola), Heidi Albert (cello),

Iron Composer 2014

Plane

Cloud Atlas Symphony - Movement 1
for orchestra
Music by Gene Pritsker
based on music from the film 'Cloud Atlas' by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil

Performed by:
KRISTJAN JARVI & THE MDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

AT THE 2012 IMPULS FESTIVAL IN HALLE, GERMANY
Nov. 11, 2012


Cloud Atlas Symphony Movement 1

Cloud Atlas Symphony - Movement 4
for orchestra 
Music by Gene Pritsker 
based on music from the film 'Cloud Atlas' by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil

Performed by: 
KRISTJAN JARVI & THE MDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

AT THE 2012 IMPULS FESTIVAL IN HALLE, GERMANY 
Nov. 11, 2012

Cloud Atlas Symphony - Movement 4

Cloud Atlas Symphony - Movement 6
for orchestra 
Music by Gene Pritsker 
based on music from the film 'Cloud Atlas' by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil

Performed by: 
KRISTJAN JARVI & THE MDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

AT THE 2012 IMPULS FESTIVAL IN HALLE, GERMANY 
Nov. 11, 2012

Cloud Atlas Symphony - Movement 6

'EroicAnization'  for Di.J. and chamber ensemble
by Gene Pritsker 
based on Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony 
performed by ensembleKONTRASTE, 
conducted by Hans Rotman, 
performed at Tafelhalle, in Nuremberg, Germany
In 6 movements 
EroicAnization 
1 Eroica Erupted 
2 Eroica Extracted
3 Erotic Eroica
4 Eulogy Eroica 
5 Erroneous Eroica
6 Eka Tala Eroica

Eroicanization (live)

'Quotes' from the hip-hop chamber opera 'Money' by Gene Pritsker
feat. Melanie Mitrano -soprano and Charles Coleman - baritone
with the Sound Liberation Chamber players
Franz Hackl - trumpet, Dave Gotay - cello, Gene Pritsker, Greg Baker - guitars, Mat Fieldes - bass, 

'Quotes' from the hip-hop chamber opera 'Money'

Sorrow Like Pleasure Creates Its Own Atmosphere 
for flute and Smaplestra

performed by Margaret Lancaster
from the album 'Samplestra'

Sorrow Like Pleasure Creates Its Own Atmosphere

Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J./producer Gene Pritsker has written over 900 compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
	He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, including the Absolute Ensemble, Adelaide Symphony, MDR Symphony, The Athens Camarata, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn, Shanghai and Berlin Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Riga, Orchester des Pfalztheaters, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Anhaltische Philharmonie, ensembleKONTRASTE as well as such soloists as Anne Akiko Meyers, Lara St. John, Kathleen Supove, Sarah Chang, Martin Kuuskmann, Tim Fain, Borislav Strulev and Simone Dinnerstein. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, Including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wrote additional music and composed his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony’.
	The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolving the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Classical Music Sentinel writes:  "His expressive reach is so wide as to encompass everything from ethno/techno, rock/jazz fusion, classical opera and more, and it all seems to be effortlessly integrated within his anima and comes out through different facets of his persona. You could almost see him as a modern day renaissance man.” 
	Raul DaGma writes in his article ‘Gene Pritsker: Varieties Of Musical Experience’: "Gene Pritsker is a modernist at heart. If there is something new to be said to describe an old form or even a formless old thing – as old as yesterday, that is – this extraordinary musician will be among the first to say it…All of his music is of the highest quality, audacious and witty, joyous and elevated, and incomparable to anything written and recorded. In all of this Gene Pritsker has created a singular vocabulary, spoken not only by someone deeply schooled in music, but also in history, theology and philosophy."
	Organizations he is associated with include:  Co-director of Composers Concordance & Composers Concordance Records, co-founder/guitarist of Absolute Ensemble and artist-in residence at the Austrian Outreach Festival. Gene Pritsker's music is published by: Falls House Press, Gold Branch Music, Periferia Sheet Music & Calabrese Brothers music. Recorded on: Col Legno, Enja, Eutrepe, Wergo, Innova , Composers' Concordance Records, SONY Classical, and Capstone record labels.

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