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Max LL - Selected Works

the first single from my new album "ghosts of the floating world," out soon w/ chilledcow!

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youtube: https://bit.ly/2P6dNrS

parts written by Kalaido, performed by: 
kennebec - guitar
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pearlpixel - oboe
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mastered by jodhi mather-pike
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Kami

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. Director Shaunak Sen (Cities of Sleep) explores the connection between the kites and the Muslim brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.

A Broken Ecosystem

Nature Love

Love Song (After JE)

Love Song (After JE) (Edit)

I wrote Departures after spending half a year in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran. This composition features several sounds I captured during my travels, including various Azans (muslim call to prayer).

Artwork by http://husaruk.com 
All music composed and produced by Max LL 
If you wish to license this track for a project, please get in touch through email.

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Departures

Get the album: music.maxll.ca/album/orchestral-works

All music composed & orchestrated by Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis

"Movements", "Adagio No. 1" and "Adagio No. 2" performed by the Sofia Session Orchestra conducted by Lyubomir Denev Jr.

"Passage" performed by Budapest Scoring Symphony Orchestra featuring members of Concerto Budapest

Cello in "Closure" performed by Sheila Hannigan

Additional performances by Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis

Mastering by Dave Collins

Album art & photography by Maude Plante-Husaruk 
husaruk.com 
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Orchestral Works

Closure

Ingo Wegener - Ut Aeternitatis Aeternitatis

This piece will be part of my upcoming album Golestan (the follow-up to Collecting Sounds Around the world)that I'll be releasing on September 6th. 
Get the album here: https://maxll.bandcamp.com/album/golestan

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Remembrance

Get the album: http://hyperurl.co/golestan

Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/husaruk/golestan

This album was inspired by reflections and memories from my time in Iran. 

All music composed by Max LL 

Featuring performances by Reza A., Ziya Tabassian, Bashir Faramarzi, Omar Abou Afach, Shahab Asgharzadeh & The Sofia Session Orchestra. 

Album Artwork & Photography by Maude Plante-Husaruk 

Mastering by Harris Newman 

I'd like to thank all the amazing people that inspired me along my journey: Narges, Shahab, Reza, Nahid, Zoya, Arash, Parinaz, Parham, Sana, Maryam, Hamid, Nastaran, Keivan, Sally, Saughar & Amir, Nahid & Amin, Shiva, Zahra, Vahid, Amir, Eva, Klaus, Felix & Christina, Khayrina, Lalmo & Mona. 

Golestan (Persian: گلستان‎ Golestȃn "The Flower Garden", "Land of Flowers") 

The words that are spoken and sung throughout the album are from a nameless Hafez poem: 

"To me a rose-tinted cheek from flower garden of the world is enough;
From this meadow the shade of that flying cypress is enough; 

May I and the company of the deceitful folk be far! 
Of all earth's treasures a cup of wine to me is enough; 

The palace of paradise for good deeds is bestowed, 
To me, drunken and a beggar, the cloister of Magians is enough; 

Sit beside the brook and watch the passage of life, 
To me the image of passage of life to watch is enough; 

Look for the cash in this world and the pain, 
If these don't satisfy you, to me the profit and loss is enough; 

The darling is with me, why should I desire more? 
The pleasure of discourse with my dear darling is enough; 

For God's sake send me not to paradise from your door, 
For in this world the head of your street to me is enough; 

Hafiz! it is unfair to complain about the watery flow of fate, 
The nature like water, and moving gazelles to you is enough;"

Golestan

Get the album: http://hyperurl.co/golestan

Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/husaruk/golestan

This album was inspired by reflections and memories from my time in Iran.

All music composed by Max LL

Featuring performances by Reza A., Ziya Tabassian, Bashir Faramarzi, Omar Abou Afach, Shahab Asgharzadeh & The Sofia Session Orchestra.

Album Artwork & Photography by Maude Plante-Husaruk

Mastering by Harris Newman

I'd like to thank all the amazing people that inspired me along my journey: Narges, Shahab, Reza, Nahid, Zoya, Arash, Parinaz, Parham, Sana, Maryam, Hamid, Nastaran, Keivan, Sally, Saughar & Amir, Nahid & Amin, Shiva, Zahra, Vahid, Amir, Eva, Klaus, Felix & Christina, Khayrina, Lalmo & Mona.

Golestan (Persian: گلستان‎ Golestȃn "The Flower Garden", "Land of Flowers")

The words that are spoken and sung throughout the album are from a nameless Hafez poem:

"To me a rose-tinted cheek from flower garden of the world is enough;
From this meadow the shade of that flying cypress is enough;

May I and the company of the deceitful folk be far! 
Of all earth's treasures a cup of wine to me is enough;

The palace of paradise for good deeds is bestowed, 
To me, drunken and a beggar, the cloister of Magians is enough;

Sit beside the brook and watch the passage of life, 
To me the image of passage of life to watch is enough;

Look for the cash in this world and the pain, 
If these don't satisfy you, to me the profit and loss is enough;

The darling is with me, why should I desire more? 
The pleasure of discourse with my dear darling is enough;

For God's sake send me not to paradise from your door, 
For in this world the head of your street to me is enough;

Hafiz! it is unfair to complain about the watery flow of fate, 
The nature like water, and moving gazelles to you is enough;"

Howraman

Divisions

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US based pianists / keyboardists extraordinaire Jacob Pavek & Philip Daniel have teamed up on the new collaborative project BLOMMA. Their eponymous debut LP is fun and fresh from start to finish, with tunes built on a layering of rhythmic pianos, synths and electronics. We're very stoked to be releasing this luminous piece of music with them to warm this North American winter.

The record drops on February 28th, but the first taste is out now! You can listen to the lead single 'Morrow' in all digital outlets and pre-order the record from our Bandcamp store : https://orcd.co/blomma-morrow

All Music Composed by Philip Daniel and Jacob Pavek
Mixed by Philip Zach
Mastered by Bruce Templeton
Strings by Laurels String Quartet

BLOMMA

Morrow

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BLOMMA - Morrow

Meryem

Deeply

Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti join forces on their collaborative album ‘u,i ’,  a brilliant exploration of mediated modern communication and a timely release that strikes a powerful resonance with our recently heightened experiences of connection and isolation under pandemic conditions. ‘u, i ’ was recorded over VOIP (voice over internet protocol), using the technology as both creative tool and conceptual frame.

Recorded in Berlin and Montreal and the strange virtual space in between, ‘u,i’ was pieced together between 2017-2019, though its genesis dates back fifteen years, to when Olivier and Johannes began dreaming of a network-based studio that could bridge the 6,000 km geographical distance between them. When early public forms of VOIP such as Skype appeared in the early ‘00s, the pair quickly took to the platform to talk and exchange ideas. Whilst it enabled the building of both a friendship and musical collaboration, they quickly noticed its limitations. Poking fun at its often distorted and unintelligible transmission quality, they began accumulating recordings of its strange sonic by-products. As the pair increasingly used VOIP through the years, the musical potential of these recordings and the concept behind ‘u,I’ began to emerge. Spending more time together online than in the same physical space, they noticed their personal experience was widely shared. With contemporary lives increasingly atomised, social interaction is becoming more and more mediated. Meanwhile, an explosion of personal video feeds has given us access to millions of intimate lives online, a raw and fragile glimpse on human existence. This new paradigm gave Olivier and Johannes the idea that it might be possible to build the narrative of a whole life via disconnected fragments posted online.

A reflection on human existence glimpsed through the prism of VOIP, 'u,i' encapsulates our vaporized social existence via a multitude of disconnected ghostly fragments and offers a bittersweet celebration of our interconnection – simultaneously close and detached. Ultimately, the album itself is a dichotomy – it mourns this gap whilst at the same time recognising it as the sole reason for its existence.

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Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - Drifting

Sometimes when playing organ preludes and postludes in church, I improvise on rap songs. Sometimes I start with something else (say, for example, motives based on my own interpretations of "redemption" or "jubilation" or "cupcakes") but the journey ends up, somewhere along the way, in the loopy-oriented terrain a rap song or vice versa. 

Most people listening out in the pews more often than not have no idea what sources I quote at the time (depending on who's out there, of course), but the most intriguing part of the exercise is that people of all stripes seem to like the pieces, and have said to be "moved" by them in ways unconventional and far away from a song written for, say, a club. 

There is little material intervallic and harmonic difference between a song played on the organ and a song played through a DAW after all; meaning is ultimately ascribed through timbre and context. This fact testifies to the power of a delicately placed recontextualization and is proof of an "everyday sacred"  contained in even the most deceivingly simplistic 4/4 riffs and 12-bar bass lines.  

A 2013 Gate Production. 
Composed and Performed by Kara-Lis Coverdale in Montreal, Quebec. 

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Puttukas(organ postlude)

Composer & Songwriter - Collecting sounds around the world. http://maxll.ca

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