This track is the 11th and last movement of the upcoming theatrical album dubbed "A Place Glowing a Brilliant Red" about a future human society on Mars.

Storyboard of this tune is as follows:
A Martian ship in the future is exploring Earth (these Martians actually descend from Earthlings but are unaware of their ancestors) . As they come close to Earth with their spaceship they send data and other messages back to Mars. 

Soon they realise Earth's orbit is full of artificial garbage and they are hit by one of the metal objects stuck in a practically infinite orbit. They fall and burn up in Earth's atmosphere. They say their last goodbye to Mars whilst realising this is actually where they come from, therefore they are ashes and dust.

For those interested, a strong reference for the album is Jared Diamond's book Collapse and Robert Zubrin's dreamy idea of a Terraformed Mars.

The soloists are Andrew Linham on Clarinet and Sam Warner on Trumpet.

Mimika MME is a multicultural London based modern jazz orchestra. It has been described as a mixture of Sun Ra, Balkan music, theatre, Duke Ellington and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Their lead vocal has been dubbed the "Croatian Flora Purim" and one of the reviews called their musical style "Balkan Space Jazz".

Mimika played on the London Jazz Festival 2012, the Olympic Festivals, and regularly gigs on London's underground and overground scenes.

Maja Rivic - vocals
Andy Hall - trumpet
Sam Warner - trumpet
Patrick Kenny - trombone
Andrew Linham - clarinet
Daniel Woodfield - soprano and alto saxophones and clarinet
David Turay - soprano and alto saxophones
Rob Milne - tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
Marin Galan - tenor saxophone
Leon Bovell - baritone saxophone 
Theon Cross - tuba
Rohit Nijhawan - guitar
Leon Rosten - piano
Andres Castellanos - bass
Troels Lund Sorensen - drums
Shama Rahman - narration

Music, lyrics, narrative and concept by Mak Murtic

Special thanks to the awesome recording and mixing crew Gabor Halasz and Martin Merenyi!
http://www.martinmerenyi.com/

FInd Mimika:
http://www.makmurticensemble.com
http://www.facebook.com/makmurticensemble
http://www.youtube.com/makkreol

The tune was recorded in various studios and bedrooms in London, UK.

Mimika - The Earthlings (From A Place Glowing A Brilliant Red)

Savanna Preference

Track from Grand Union Orchestra album 'The Song of Many Tongues', by Tony Haynes, featuring Gail Anne Dorsey (voice) and Rick Taylor (trombone). The composition and its background is discussed by Tony Haynes in his monthly Blog. Direct link: http://wp.me/p1EvPu-uc

By The Waters Of Babylon

Composed Faruk Banjska
Lyrics Bajram Kafu Kinolli
Recorded Homebasesound
Place Kosovo
Gipsy Groove

www.gipsygroovemusic.com

Milice

Chillin'

Dr.Smeđi Šećer - Ča Wah Wah [MIK rare grooves 1965-1981]. 

OŠTIJA! Nakon 4 godine potrage dovršio sam jedan kolaž inspiriran mojim krajem i vrelom raritetnih ploča lokalne festivalske karavane Melodije Istre i Kvarnera. Nakon što sam jednom prilikom ubrao masni 'Ča je more' break na festivalskom singlu proširio sam potragu na ostala izdanja i začudio sam se koliko je bilo funky numera na ovom festivalu u prošlosti. MIK je specifičan festival, ponajviše zbog korištenja lokalnog melosa i poprilično psihodelične istarske ljestvice, a onda i zbog toga što su festivalske ploče izdavane u malim nakladama i mogu se pronaći samo na MIK lokalitetima. Između masnih grooveova i brejkova ima naravno i onih momenata koji čine MIK, MIK-om. Ala šu!

Dizajn Bernard Blašković [Prema rješenju za MIK 71', legendarnog Jugoton cover majstora Ivana Ivezića]

Toni Kljaković - Dobro nam prišli 
Josipa Butorac - On ni tvoj 
Toni Kljaković - Ča je s nami 
Aldo Galleazzi - Kroz godišća ča odzvanja 
Mirko Cetinski - Lipa moja Marija 
Ivo Pincetić - Ja sam čakavac 
Grupa 777 - Ča je more 
Ljiljana Budičin-Manestar - Šparoge smo brali 
Radmila Karaklajić - Di cvita ružmarin 
Ljiljana Budičin-Manestar i Roland Šuster - Oj Labinko i Labinjon 
Aldo Galleazzi - Marija 
Radojka Šverko - Zimmer frei 
Ivo Robić - Kad se doma vrnem 
Milka Lenac - Sirena 
Vilim Ivica - Soldi 
Milka Lenac - Ča mi godi

Dr.Smeđi Šećer - Ča Wah Wah [MIK Rare Grooves 1965-1981]

Pagan II (1996)  	 	

12 mins. for orchestra (3 picc.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - piano, percussion (5) - 16.14.12.10.8)  
First performed by the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Naohiro Totsuka, Tokyo City Opera Concert Hall Tokyo, November 1997. 

A BBC Radio 3 broadcast with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies followed in February 2000 (this recording).     

For me, Pagan II is undoubtedly the most frightening, austere work I have ever composed. It is a personal glimpse into the abyss. The music has a ritualistic feel to it, as if some huge arcane and barbaric ceremony was being witnessed, and the participants of the ceremony were being, in turn, entranced through hypnotic 'dance', and brutalised through music which is violent, both rhythmically and harmonically. Pagan II is not intended to be a desolate pronouncement on our future, rather a glimpse of the unthinkable. Both Pagan I and II can be performed as a complete work. 

PAGAN II (for orchestra (1996)

Ambience demo

Unreleased album recorded with Matthias Daneck on drums and Bernd Haitzler on bass.
Recorded around 1997.


Laura

Stroke Of Midnight.WAV

Mak Murtic is a London and Zagreb based saxophonist, multiinstrumentalist and composer. His main projects are Mimika Orchestra and Truth ≠ Tribe. He also plays in bands Antenat, Maja Rivic Septet and occasionally guests in various other groups. He is a freelance composer and arranger writing for various ensembles, most frequently for the Croatian Radio Television Big Band but also for films and theatres.

Mimika is a London and Zagreb based alternative world concept jazz ensemble.

Truth ≠ Tribe is a Zagreb based alternative world rock jazz quartet.

Mimika - The Earthlings (From A Place Glowing A Brilliant Red)

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