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One Hot Night

(still may do a mix or another version) 

illusive knowledge unknown 
only if you're staying
or you may never know

through the light now
will you travel far enough

in the right here
make it worth it
is it worth it

Lost Fae

"vo piangendo io tra voi" was written in response to the sonnet "Strani rupi, aspri monti, alte tremanti" by the 16th century Neapolitan poet Luigi Tansillo. “Strani rupi” is one of a pair of sonnets written in the aftermath of the volcanic eruption of the Campi Flegrei on the 29th September 1538, which dramatically altered the surrounding landscape and caused the formation of Montenuovo.

In true Petrarchan style, the poet imagines himself wandering round the post-eruption landscape, contrasting his own sorrows with the desolation that he sees around him. The guitar represents the landscape, presenting a 27 bar grid in five defective versions. The saxophone represents the poet. Its music divides the grid into five subsection, each of which makes a different journey through nine different variative types.

I composed "vo piangendo io tra voi" between May and July 2021 for the Duo Galeano/Javaid, with funds made available by Artists Scholarship North Rhine-Westphalia. The Duo gave the work’s first performance at Kraftwerk, Chemnitz on 19th October 2021.

This recording is of a performance given at LOFT, Cologne by the Duo Galeano/Javaid on March 7th 2023.

vo piangendo io tra voi

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Phrakture - Syncopated Kisses (Feathervane Remix) @ Purified Radio 361 by Nora En Pure (23-07-2023)

thank you for not discussing the outside world (2014/15)
by Nolan Krell
performed by the orkest de ereprijs
Dalma Süle - soprano
Enikő Gősi - mezzo-soprano
Georgi Sztojanov - tenor
Rob Vermeulen - conductor
recorded on February 27, 2015 at Gigant, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

thank you for not discussing the outside world

Composition Portfolio 14-15

20 Years and 81 Days (2015)

Live recordings from the 'Slotconcert' of the Young Composres Meeting 2017.
Orkest | De Ereprijs performs 16 new compositions from composers under 30 years of age all over the world. 
After a week of hard labour and rehearsals 16 beautiful new pieces and as number 17 the beautiful piece by Raphaël who was commissioned at the YCM 2016

04 Vasileios Filippou - Swash

Preludio VI, de los 24 Preluduios para guitarra.
F. Javier Ruz, guitarra

Preludio VI (24 Preludios para guitarra)

both // and
By Nolan Krell
for amplified ensemble and electronics
2017-18

Victoria Sparks - percussion and electronics
Andrew Goodlett - guitar
Madeline Hildebrand - piano and electronics
Chris Anstey - violin
Emma Quackenbush - 'cello
Nolan Krell - conducting

University of Manitoba, Tache Music Addition, Winnipeg, Canada.
March 11, 2018.

both // and

On this song, I am trying to get a Pink Floyd (underlying pulsating ambiance) vibe. Or maybe if they were jamming along with Khruangbin! Mastered by Dolby ~ Aurora to hit the Sweet-Spot!

Soultripp

Solar Flares/Sun Chaser

Solar Flares

Firebird 400 ~ Solar Flares/Sun Chaser

British composer James Erber was born in 1951 in London of an Austrian father and an English mother. After studying Music at the Universities of Sussex (BA, 1973) and Nottingham (MA, 1975), he was appointed Music Editor at Peters Edition, London. He left Peters Edition in 1979 and began work as a freelance editor, writer and translator.  Still largely self-taught as a composer, it was at this period he produced his first acknowledged score, "Seguente" for oboe and piano (1976-1978, revised 1980). The guidance and encouragement he received from Brian Ferneyhough (whom he had met at Peters Edition) prompted him to a serious study of composition, firstly with Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex (MPhil in Composition, 1983), then from 1981 to 1982 with Ferneyhough himself at the Musikhochschule, Freiburg-im-Breisgau. In 1984, at Ferneyhough’s suggestion, he made the first of five visits to the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, winning a Stipendienpreis in 1988. From 1982 to 2016, he combined activity as a composer with teaching and lecturing. Since 2016 he has been able to concentrate solely on composition. 
James Erber's work reflects a wide range of interests, including Renaissance and Baroque music, the music of South-East Asia, Jazz, blues, Mediaeval and Renaissance philosophy, Kabbalah, green politics, recent scientific developments, film noir, Jacobean tragedy, the Gothic novel and historical slang.  His music is multi-layered and complex (especially from the point of view of rhythm and form). Its complexity is, however, combined with harmonic clarity and lyricism as well as a tenuous sense of optimism and a concern with intellectual and spiritual continuity.
It has been performed and broadcast widely by soloists such as Pavlos Antoniadis, Antonella Bini, Mario Caroli, Diego Castro Magaš, Matteo Cesari, Franklin Cox, Gianpaolo Antongirolami, Gleb Kanasevich, Carin Levine, Ian Pace, Jonathan Powell, Nancy Ruffer and Michele Selva, as well as by ensembles including 175 East, the Arditti Quartet, Duo Galeano/Javaid, Exposé, ELISION, Lontano and NOISE. James Erber’s music has been recorded on NMC, Metier, Centaur Records (USA) and Convivium Records. Many of his scores are available from Composers Edition. In July 2022, his complete writings on music (1978-2021) were published by Vision Edition under the title "Fragile Continuities".