Chorus (Dusk/Dawn)

Hollie Kenniff - "Flourish (Helios Remix)"

The All Seeing-Sky
Concerto for two percussionists and orchestra
by Ioannis John Psathas
2021

Duration 22m

Written for - and dedicated to - Fabian Ziegler and Luca Staffelbach.

Commissioned by Orchestra Wellington (New Zealand), the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (New Zealand), and City Lights Concerts (Switzerland)

In resistance to the fireworks-driven mega-spectacle of recent percussion concertos (some of which I’ve written myself), I’ve scored this work for a Mozart-sized orchestra and limited the solo parts to no more than marimba (soloist 1) and vibraphone (soloist 2).

There are three movements:
1. The Portals of Dis
2. The Upper World
3. The All-Seeing Sky

This concerto is inspired by a number of interwoven concepts. The phrase The All-Seeing Sky refers to both the omnipresent technological surveillance of the 21st century, and the ‘other’ omnipresence, God in his/her/its/their myriad historical chroniclings. 

Gustave Doré’s spellbinding illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy inspired the first two movements. The Portals of Dis depicts the (imagined) inner realisation that one is actually being ferried across the river Styx, to arrive – with a great welcoming fanfare – at the gates of Dis. The musical language of this movement is evocative of antiquity, particularly ancient Greece.

After having traversed the many levels of hell the travellers in Dante’s Inferno find the hidden road that provides the way back to The Upper World – and emerge back into our world, the bright world. The unsettled nature of the ending of this movement suggests that the world we live in now has more than a passing resemblance to hell as we imagine it.

The role of the two soloists in this concerto is fluid. At times the soloists play in virtuosic unison, and sometimes their two instruments are treated as one ‘meta-instrument’. Often the two soloists are foreground drivers of the music, other times they are equal partners with the orchestra. And sometimes they take on a background role of accompanying the orchestra (at the end of second movement, for example, the two soloists are providing a warm, quietly supporting and loving minimalist underpinning for the orchestra’s final utterances).

The All - Seeing Sky 1 The Portals Of Dis

Seaside Story (tomonari nozaki / 2022)

Rust was a name I took some time after Purl, for the more intense techno tracks I was creating at times. Rust is no longer active. This track is from the album 'Transient Resurrection' ~
http://eternell.net/album/transient-resurrection

Music by Ludvig Cimbrelius

Transient Resurrection

Rust - Energy

c'était parti pour faire un morceau de jazz, ça a fini par un morceau tout court...

L'âme du Violon S'est Fichée dans Son Cœur

from Matthewdavid's Mindflight - "Ashram" is the first release in a series of modern New Age music from Leaving Records. Purchase ltd. edition cassette and digital here: http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/matthewdavid-mindflight/ashram


Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Dancing Ganesh (feat Nora Keyes)

Orla Wren - Filmscores Volume 4

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Taken from 'Suso Saiz - Nothing Is Objective'(MFM040)
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C5 - Suso Saiz - Scrub Your Ego (1:54)

Dripping Rain (from Flowering Tree, Distant Moon. Coming out on April 30, Not Not Fun Records)
https://masahirotakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/flowering-tree-distant-moon-2

The All - Seeing Sky 1 The Portals Of Dis

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