So Beautiful.  I can't wait to get the album!

Third Coast Percussion's second full-length album, "Unknown Symmetry," describes a very personal history of the Chicago-based ensemble from their founding in 2005 to today. The album includes the first recording of the percussion quartet arrangement of Arvo Pärt's iconic work, "Fratres;" beautiful, rarely-heard works by Peter Garland and Christopher Deane, and new music from Third Coast Percussion's own David Skidmore and former member of TCP, Owen Clayton Condon.

Skidmore's multi-movement work, "Common Patterns in Uncommon Time," was commissioned for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and architectural studio in rural Wisconsin.

Fratres - by Arvo Pärt

Have you ever thought about the fragmentary nature of ideas?  Whole narratives are compiled from a sea of information.  Perceptions are created based on which parts of the jigsaw you have been exposed to.  Sometimes, it is left to the imagination to fill in the dots.  Dialogue is crucial.  What do you think?

26 Jun 24 Thought Fragments

Luys i Luso is a unique project for piano and voices by Tigran Hamasyan featuring Yerevan State Chamber Choir conducted by Harutyun Topikyan.
www.luysiluso.com/
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ART DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CONDUCTOR
Harutyun Topikyan 
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CHOIRMASTER
Lilit Yedigaryan 
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ACCOMPANIST / CONSULTANT
Karine Harutyunyan 
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SOLOISTS
Seyran Avakyan
Jenny Nazaryan
Makruhi Khachaturyan
Aren Avetyan
Vahagn Vardazaryan
Tamara Mosinyan

Tigran Hamasyan, Yerevan State Chamber Choir & Harutyun Chkolyan - Ov Zarmanali (2)

Closer To Closure is a song from Jherek Bischoff's forthcoming album Cistern, out July 15th on The Leaf Label. 
Cistern is an album inspired by time Bischoff spent improvising in an empty, two-million-gallon, underground water tank, with a 45-second reverb decay. The unique acoustics of the space forced Bischoff to slow down and adapt his compositional approach - something which, unexpectedly, brought him back to his childhood, and the slow-pace of life he experienced growing up on a sailboat.

Pre-order now: bit.ly/CisternBC

CREDITS
Composed, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Jherek Bischoff
Recorded by Patrick Higgins at Future-­Past Studios, NY
Photography by Alex Stoddard
Art Direction by Jan Lankisch

MUSICIANS
Jherek Bischoff - Percussion 
Contemporaneous 
David Bloom - Conductor 
Vicente Alexim - Clarinet 
John Gattis - Horn 
Evan Honse - Flugelhorn 
Daniel Linden - Trombone 
Matt Evans - Percussion 
Kate Dreyfuss - Violin 
Marina Kifferstein - Violin 
Josh Henderson - Violin 
Nikita Morozov - Violin 
Nicole Parks - Violin 
Finnegan Shanahan - Violin 
Kallie Chieckhomski - Viola 
Sarah Haines - Viola 
Dylan Mattingly - Cello 
Matthew Smith - Cello 
Pat Swoboda - Contrabass 
Additional Musicians 
Serena McKinney - Violin 
Lauren Baba - Viola 
Aniela Marie Perry - Cello 

(c) 2014 Jherek Bischoff, worldwide administration by Nettwerk One Music (Canada) limited, on behalf of Brassland Projects Inc (BMI) 
(p) 2016 Jherek Bischoff under licence to The Leaf Label Ltd 
(c) 2016 The Leaf Label Ltd

Cistern

Closer To Closure

Pre-order 'The Imperfect Sea' on Vinyl, CD and DL here: http://phonofile.link/the-imperfect-sea

The iconic Penguin Cafe join the Erased Tapes family and open a brand new chapter to their unique world with new album The Imperfect Sea – out on Erased Tapes 5th May 2017.

A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes’ journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Now, their upcoming album echoes reminiscent sounds that embrace the new.

The album title refers to a saying by his father that “we wade in a sea of imperfections…”, reflecting upon the idea that beauty can be found amongst the chaos. “If there is a narrative to the album it’s coming to the acceptance of the imperfections in all aspects of life; moreover, the recognition that these imperfections and tiny randomnesses are in fact what make up the best parts”, Arthur explains. This has also been highlighted by the striking cover artwork designed by FELD under the art direction of label founder Robert Raths, resembling a lone figure adapting to and accepting its surrounding environment.

Predominantly self-composed, the new album also features covers of electronic works by Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk, along with a re-working of Simon's 'Now Nothing'. Arthur has developed from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements.

“For this album I wanted to effect a departure from where we’d been up to now. The idea was to create a musical world that would feel familiar to an audience more used to dance records but stay true to our own values. So we replaced electronic layers with real instruments: pads with real string sections, synths with heavily-effected pianos, and atmospheric analogue drones with real feedback loops ringing through a stone and a piano soundboard.”

On the day of release, the band will play a headline show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, commencing the beginning of this new adventure for Penguin Cafe.

Buy LP/CD/DL

Penguin Cafe - Cantorum

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Starless

A remix I have done recently of an amazing tune composed by Jun Miyake with vocals by Lisa Papineau. All credit goes to the original artist, Jun Miyake. This is simply my own take on the original song.

The original can be listened to either on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EECh0UVsGV8

Or can be purchased from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-after-feat.-lisa-papineau/id285168392?i=285168407&uo=4

Closer To Closure

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