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Cloud Atlas

Gene Pritsker (a Foreshadower and Very Us Artist) was lead orchestrator for the Cloud Atlas soundtrack. Afterwards, he composed a symphony based on this music by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil. On Nov. 11, 2012, the MDR Symphony Orchestra performed the world premier of Gene's Cloud Atlas Symphony at the 2012 Impuls Festival in Hall, Germany. This is what it sounded like.

Cloud Atlas Symphony by Gene Pritsker

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A Case For Shame is from the new @Moby album 'Innocents', more info here: http://moby.com/innocents

Official video: http://youtu.be/j00LQHkwA5k

Moby - A Case For Shame (Thom alt-J remix)

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

Buy 'Innocents':
Deluxe CD: http://smarturl.it/innocents2cd?IQid=soundcloud.description
iTunes LP: http://smarturl.it/innocentsitunes?IQid=soundcloud.description
Double Gatefold LP + CD: http://smarturl.it/innocentslp?IQid=soundcloud.description

Hear more from 'Innocents':
http://innocents.moby.com

Moby on 'Going Wrong':

“This song is just delicate. It starts delicate, and stays delicate – even when it expands a little bit, it still has this quality of warmth and delicacy. It never needs to become ironic and cynical and step back and see what it’s doing; it’s just this little jewel box of a song.”

Innocents

Going Wrong

Buy & Listen

A brand new 30min ambient track by Moby, included as part of the 'Small Room' DJ mix on the 'Destroyed Remixed' album, out on May 1st

All Sides Gone

B-Side from 'Miami'. Also features on the deluxe iTunes LP version of 'Total Life Forever'.

iTunes

Wear and Tear

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 2
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 2

Cloud Atlas Symphony - Movement 3
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 3

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 5
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 5

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

Cloud Atlas - Sextet (extended version)

"Farmers in Japan" from Thus:Owls second album Harbours.

The groupʼs cinematic, dark and emotional art-folk hits you in the gut and brings
your focus to what lays deep inside. With an eclectic line-up surrounding the
Montreal-relocated Swedish songstress Erika Angell and Montreal guitarist
Simon Angell (Patrick Watson Band), Thus:Owls emerge from two of the most
prolific and cutting edge corners of the world to create a sound both novel and
captivating.

Their sophomore album "Harbours" was recorded in the French countryside, in a
castle on the banks of La Seine. When it was released in Sweden last October,
the press used words such as "ingenious" and "masterpiece" to describe it.

Farmers in Japan

"White Night" from Thus:Owls second album Harbours.

The groupʼs cinematic, dark and emotional art-folk hits you in the gut and brings
your focus to what lays deep inside. With an eclectic line-up surrounding the
Montreal-relocated Swedish songstress Erika Angell and Montreal guitarist
Simon Angell (Patrick Watson Band), Thus:Owls emerge from two of the most
prolific and cutting edge corners of the world to create a sound both novel and
captivating.
Their sophomore album "Harbours" was recorded in the French countryside, in a
castle on the banks of La Seine. When it was released in Sweden last October,
the press used words such as "ingenious" and "masterpiece" to describe it.

White Night

40 Changing Orbits for chamber orchestra by Gene Pritsker
performed by Absolute Ensemble, Kristjan Jarvi Conductor at the Bremen Musikfest

40 Changing Orbits

The Poison Tree (David Lynch Remix)

Moby - Porcelain

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.

Cloud Atlas Symphony - Movement 6

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