Third Coast Percussion's second full-length album, "Unknown Symmetry," describes a very personal history of the Chicago-based ensemble from their founding in 2005 to today. The album includes the first recording of the percussion quartet arrangement of Arvo Pärt's iconic work, "Fratres;" beautiful, rarely-heard works by Peter Garland and Christopher Deane, and new music from Third Coast Percussion's own David Skidmore and former member of TCP, Owen Clayton Condon.

Skidmore's multi-movement work, "Common Patterns in Uncommon Time," was commissioned for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and architectural studio in rural Wisconsin.

Fratres - by Arvo Pärt

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~Gustave Courbet - "L'Origine du monde" (1866)

György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna (1966)

Sonata in A Major, Op. 13; IV. Allegro quasi presto

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater RV 621: Stabat Mater Dolorosa. Largo

Over several years, Guenter Schlienz has graced labels such as Constellation Tatsu, Sacred Phrases, S.I.N.K. CDs, SicSic, Preservation so we are very excited here at Rural Colours to be added to that list with his latest work Peace.

After noticing that several friends had begun to end emails marked 'Peace', Guenter Schlienz, ever full of questions, started to ponder on the meaning of the word in this context.  Around the same time he started to read Henry Miller's book 'The Collossus of Maroussi' and was intrigued by a couple of paragraphs devoted to exactly this question: what is "the meaning of peace". He came to the conclusion that there is much more to "peace" than just the absence of war.  The albums track titles are words by Henry Miller, and the work is Guenter's humble attempt to gather sounds and atmospheres around those lines.

Using modular synths combined with tape loops, analog and digital delays, vintage electronic organ and guitar, Schlienz works within a romantically inward looking framework, creating music that comes from deep within.  His compositions reflect themes of tenderness, alienation and homecoming and feature a range of guest musicians including Masako Kamikawa (piano on  'Reverberation of the Pandemonium') and Niko Lazarakopoulos (guitar on 'Faint Whispers') and even an anonymous busker from the streets of Stuttgart on 'Who Put the Demons There?'

inspired by henry miller's book "the collossus of maroussi". / "i never knew the meaning of peace until i arrived at epidaurus ".

Artwork by Katie English / This is rural colours 82
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Guenter Schlienz / Peace (Snippets)

Arnold Schönberg - Pélleas Und Melisande Op.5 (1903)

Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Wind on Water

Mashup made  in a sleepless night, two songs merged together and it comes a new, intriguing and fascinating song, I hope you enjoy!  Deep ambient,  for open-minded listeners .

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto & Jack DeJohnette -  Disturbed Anatolia

G.I. Gurdjieff - チベット・ダンス (excerpt)

The Gutter

In May 1913, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, composer Igor Stravinsky, and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky unleashed an artistic tsunami whose shock waves are still being felt a century later. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was visceral, violent, garish, primitive in its explosion of polyrhythms, dissonances, and shrieking orchestral effects.
Hugh Wolff, Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Director of Orchestras, and the New England Conservatory Philharmonia celebrated the centennial in this performance recorded April 24, 2013 in Jordan Hall, Boston.

Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps -  The Augurs of Spring  Dances of the Young Girls

New England Conservatory educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world, drawing on the talent and deep reservoir of experience of our distinguished faculty. We are dedicated to inculcating the highest standards of excellence and nurturing individual artistic sensibility and creative growth. Understanding that music is one of the transcendent expressions of human civilization, NEC aspires to ensure it a central place in contemporary society. Additionally, we present over 1,000 free concerts a year in our world class performance spaces which include historic Jordan Hall.

Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps - The Augurs of Spring Dances of the Young Girls

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