From the album Vespers for a New Dark Age 
released March 31, 2015 on New Amsterdam Records
composed by Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli

Unsorted Classical

Modern clasic

contemporary piano

neo classicals

Neo Classicals

Classigirls

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Beach: By the Still Waters, Op. 114

By the Still Waters, Op. 114

Title : Day Has Ended
Artist : Aaron Martin / Christoph Berg
Label : Dronarivm
Release Date : September 23
Catalogue number : DR-14
Format : CD, ltd. 250
Release page : http://dronarivm.com/2013/08/28/aaron-martin-christoph-berg-day-has-ended/ 

Aaron Martin & Christoph Berg’s split called “Day Has Ended” is a piece of quiet, intimate music, interfused with daylight and covered by a soft mist of evening dreams. This album spans the course of a day until the point where night falls.

The first part, created by Aaron Martin, is a water-colour, cool and delicate. The twinkling sun reflected itself in a slow river, transparent silvery clouds sparkle and brush the heads of drowsy trees. The closer to the middle of the album, the lower goes the gentle shadow, saturating. In the second part - Christoph Berg’s one, water-colour turns into gouache. The sound becomes more full, more sensuous, it comes in waves, like breath of a sleeping man.

Just close your eyes, be all ears and you’ll feel – the night is not silent. Sweet tune of twilight and darkness full of echo, humming blue, vague voice of the strings and clear gleaming of bright stars in a velvet sky – that is the night.

It’s a perfect and severely sincere work, slightly bittered with melancholy.

Aaron Martin is a very talented multi-instrumentalist from Topeka, Kansas who has releases on such labels as Experimedia, Preservation, Under The Spire, Sonic Meditations.

Christoph Berg is composer and sound artist currently living and working in Berlin focusing on fragile acoustic chamber music compositions. Also writes electro-acoustic music as Field Rotation. He has releases on Facture, hibernate, Denovali Records, Fluid Audio.

Curated by Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq)
Cover painting "Where The Sea Once Was" by Richard Moult
Designed by Dronarivm Art

pre-order CD

Christoph Berg - Coda (taken from 'Day Has Ended' split CD)

Exclusive track taken from the upcoming album 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay' released through Hibernate Recordings.

Full review:

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/09/antonymes-there-can-be-no-true-beauty-without-decay

Pre-order:

www.hibernaterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/there-can-be-no-true-beauty-without-decay-2

Info:

Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.

With a long standing interest in music making and active listening, Hazeldine works with any influences, from his surrounding landscape to the artists he has worked with. His compositions often take on a semi-improvised structure with accidental atmospheres used as a starting point. As well as his own projects, Hazeldine also works with Marconi Union's Richard Talbot, under the name Prospector. He also works as a graphic designer, film maker and photographer, having art directed many of the Hibernate releases including our critically acclaimed vinyl series, and has worked with many other artists and labels including Facture, Field Rotation and Olan Mill.

In late 2009 Antonymes released 'Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future' on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay'. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.

The sleeve features beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram, fitting the music perfectly.


Releases 31 October 2013
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky.com)
Photography by Richard Outram and Ian M Hazeldine
Art Direction by Ian M Hazeldine 

Antonymes - The End Of Everything -ii-

If Flowers Could Dream

Schwanenlied, Op. 1 no. 1          
Heinrich Heine

Es fällt ein Stern herunter
Aus seiner funkelnden Höh;
Das ist der Stern der Liebe,
Den ich dort fallen seh.

Es fallen vom Apfelbaume,
Der weißen Blätter so viel,
Es kommen die neckenden Lüfte,
Und treiben damit ihr Spiel.

Es singt der Schwan im Weiher,
Und rudert auf und ab,
Und immer leiser singend,
Taucht er ins Flutengrab.

Es ist so still und dunkel!
Verweht ist Blatt und Blüt',
Der Stern ist knisternd zerstoben,
Verklungen das Schwanenlied.

A star is tumbling downward
Bard Suverkrop

A star falls down
from from its shimmering heights,
it is the star of love,
that I see falling there.

From the apple trees fall
so many white petals, 
the teasing breezes come
and plays with them their game.

The swan is singing in the pond,
and paddles up and down,
and the singing ever softer, 
it dives into the watery depths.

It is so still and dark,
leaf and flower have been blown away,
the star has been sputtered and scattered,
faded away the song of the swan.

Schwanenlied by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Memusica

Memusica 5 - Perupnei River

REYN - Y Tú Qué Tal [1M4]

Marking the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley's pioneering masterpiece ‘In C’, Africa Express will release the first African version of the minimalist classic, 'Africa Express presents… Terry Riley's In C Mali'. This new version was recorded at the Maison des Jeunes youth club in Bamako, Mali in 2013, and is led by young contemporary conductor André de Ridder. The album features the cream of new artists from Bamako, among them Adama Koita, Bijou, Cheick Diallo, alongside Africa Express stalwarts Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Nick Zinner. Co-produced and mixed by Andi Toma (Mouse on Mars), the album will be released via Transgressive Records on digital formats on 24th November, with a CD and limited edition vinyl following 26th January 2015.

iTunes - out 24th November 2014 http://geni.us/2mbg

CD / LP - out 26th January 2015 http://shop.transgressiverecords.com/

Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali (5 Minute Edit)

24 Etudes d'après Chopin

Etude Op. 10 No. 10 in F Major

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CONTENT: ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination. In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the 13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’, Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing’. Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, as well as Erased Tapes label comrade Peter Broderick on violin. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is not a side project – it is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of.

CONTEXT: On May 24th 2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark Linkous & his beloved Sparklehorse, on what would be their final European tour. That night Adam invited friend and colleague Francesco Donadello to see the concert, and Francesco's guest this evening was composer Dustin O'Halloran (Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ O.S.T.). Through a strange twist of backstage conversations surrounding passport cache conundrums, and love of Italian gastronomy, a curious friendship began that now has brought forth an offspring of truly curative compositions for the world to savour.

As announced by Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound the self-titled debut album of A Winged Victory For The Sullen will be released worldwide on September 9, 2011 via Erased Tapes Records (except for North America where it will be out on Kranky).

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears

Jam Jam (Let's Go)

Musical Masterworks, Season 33 | October 2023 performances recorded at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, CT featuring Amy Yang, Piano; Tessa Lark, Violin; Michelle Ross, Violin; Melissa Reardon, Viola and Alice Yoo, Cello. Learn more at musicalmasterworks.org/.

Clara Schumann, 3 Romances, Op. 11 (arr. for viola and piano)

Leni

Barbe à papa

From the album Vespers for a New Dark Age 
released March 31, 2015 on New Amsterdam Records
composed by Missy Mazzoli
performed by Victoire: Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna "Dune" Krier (keyboards), Missy Mazzoli (keyboards, electronics), Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass), Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Martha Cluver (soprano), Virginia Warnken (alto) and very special guest Glenn Kotche (percussion)
Lyrics by Matthew Zapruder
Engineered by Lawson White
Produced by Lawson White, Missy Mazzoli and Lorna "Dune" Krier
missymazzoli.com/vespers



Come On All You

From the album Vespers for a New Dark Age 
released March 31, 2015 on New Amsterdam Records
composed by Missy Mazzoli
performed by Victoire: Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna "Dune" Krier (keyboards), Missy Mazzoli (keyboards, electronics), Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass), Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Martha Cluver (soprano), Virginia Warnken (alto) and very special guest Glenn Kotche (percussion)
Lyrics by Matthew Zapruder
Engineered by Lawson White
Produced by Lawson White, Missy Mazzoli and Lorna "Dune" Krier
missymazzoli.com/vespers

Machine

Postlude

New Dark Age

Mellomtiden

David Bowie & Philip Glass - Heroes (Aphex Twin Remix)

Solatino

Mi Teresita

One from a series of 6 miniatures entitled 'Refbatch' - based on the youtube phenomenon - performed live.

Refbatch.4

FatCat Records’ 130701 imprint has played a pioneering role in the development of today’s vibrant post-classical scene. It has introduced the likes of Max Richter, Hauschka, and Set Fire To Flames, and has been home to Sylvain Chauveau, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Dustin O’Halloran. With its fifteenth anniversary approaching on 13th July 2016, 130701 is celebrating with the release of a compilation featuring eleven exclusive tracks - one from each of the artists to have graced the roster over the past fifteen years, plus three new signings - Ian William Craig, Olivier Alary and Resina - whose first 130701 albums are each set to appear this year. Curated and compiled by 130701’s David Howell, none of these tracks has previously seen a physical release.

Eleven into Fifteen: A 130701 Compilation

Quiet

Buy Record

Wild World

The Currents

fall down five times get up six (Francine Kay, piano)

I wrote this piece the week of Thanksgiving at the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota. It is released in honor of the Water Protectors--Those who have been at the camp, who have been on the front lines, and those everywhere who have donated supplies and spread awareness for the cause. I hope it will serve as inspiration to continue the fight to protect our earth and our people.

"You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise."
-Maya Angelou

Resilience

Murcof - Death Of A Forest (taken from The Versailles Sessions, 2008)

http://www.murcof.com
http://www.theleaflabel.com/murcof


Murcof - Death Of A Forest

Excerpt from Missy Mazzoli's opera Song from the Uproar.

The Hunted:Oblivion Seekers

Murcof - Ríos

Max Richter - Winter 3

Missy Mazzoli's orchestral work These Worlds In Us, performed by the Yale Philharmonia, conducted by Shinik Hahm.  For more information please visit www.missymazzoli.com.