Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Albums:

TLU2
soundclick.com/adamlevin/?albumID=1611&content=albumInfo

Essentials
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

One of the challenges often put to composers is, try something different or “outside of the box”. As habitual artists, it’s easy to slip back into comfortable, predictable tendencies or trademarks. This piece was a concerted (pun unintended) rebellion against my own inclinations, pursuing a more minimalist path instead, even if I didn't completely get there. It was later set to ballet and choreographed in performance.

"...a fine contrast between the darker sound of the bass and crystal clear keyboards turns it into something magical."
- On-Reflection

"...the crystalline 'Mantra'...initially an attempt at bare-bones minimalism, the embellishments of this musical mandala take it – and us – from its Reich-ian roots into the sublime territory that is Adam's own."
- Peter Stoller

(Prior listener responses at soundcloud.com/adamlevin/mantra1)

Mantra

(live performance)

Wendy Boulding, vocal
Adam Levin, piano
Steve Wirts, saxophone

Music by Adam Levin
Lyrics by Peter Stoller & Adam Levin

(c) Adam Levin & Peter Stoller (Different Drum Music | ASCAP)

Feeling What I Feel

(live)

Wendy Boulding, vocal
Adam Levin, piano
Steve Wirts, saxophone

Music by Adam Levin & Peter Stoller
Lyrics by Peter Stoller & Adam Levin

(c) Adam Levin & Peter Stoller (Different Drum Music | ASCAP)

Album: Live(OnTape)
http://differentdrummusic.com/liveontape.htm

DVD: See It
http://differentdrummusic.com/See_It.htm

Let It Go

Wendy Boulding, vocals & piano
Adam Levin, keyboards

Music & lyrics by Wendy Boulding
(c) Wendy Boulding (All rights reserved)

Feathers Everywhere

Wendy Boulding, lead vocals & piano
Adam Levin, keyboards, vocals

Music & lyrics by Wendy Boulding
(c) Wendy Boulding (All rights reserved) 

Midtown Meditation

Music by Adam Levin | Poem by Joe Lobell
(c)(p) Adam Levin & Joe Lobell (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

"Really cool. Jazzy and advanced. The poem framed by the music. Very hip rendition. Exhilarating. I forgot how good the poem is. Your feeling musical exposition (not backdrop but surrounding) multiplies the poem. Your reading is, in a nutshell, cool. Makes me want to do a full album with you (a big project I know) of my poems and your musical expositions and turning the album into a show."
- Joe Lobell

(Full-length) 'Islands':
I. Pandora's Box (including 'Modern Mind')
II. Needle's Eye
III. Testament
soundcloud.com/levin-collab/islands-modern-mind

(Condensed) 'Islands Suite':
soundcloud.com/adamlevin/islands-suite

Islands, Part One: Pandora's Box (including 'Modern Mind')

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Album: Islands
soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=1245099&albumID=1608&content=albumInfo

Islands, Part Two: Needle's Eye

(live recording)

Adam Levin, lead vocal & piano | Ellen Weiss, vocal

Music by Brian Wilson | Lyrics by Tony Asher

God Only Knows (live recording)

Music by Adam Levin
(c)(p) Adam Levin (Different Drum Music / ASCAP)

Albums:

TLU2
soundclick.com/adamlevin/?albumID=1611&content=albumInfo

Essentials
differentdrummusic.com/Essentials.htm

"It’s so cosmic…dreamily atmospheric…like a changing face of the sky.  There’s some subtle emotion about it…something beyond words."
- On-Reflection

Groundless

Adam Levin songwriting collaborations with Wendy Boulding ('So Alive', 'Say It'), Joe Lobell ('Islands' Part One: 'Pandora's Box' w/'Modern Mind'), Elena Rye Pellicciaro ('Do You Feel It?'), Tomas Stark ('Still') & Peter Stoller ('My Old Girlfriend', 'Our Perfect Love', 'Let It Go'), and performance collaboration with Ellen Weiss ('God Only Knows')

Islands, Part One: Pandora's Box (including 'Modern Mind')

Levin Collaborations

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