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Midji : Le Jour et la Nuit

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In collaboration with Jeunesse-Vie, TELUS and Metropolis Bleu

The song was inspired by DANS MA PEAU / IN MY SKIN, one of Blue Met's educational and social programs. This project involved a group of young women who have eating disorders (such as anorexia), and explored the concept of beauty.

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From MLO's "The Painted Lady Suite" (6/22/18) on Sunnyside Records.

The Painted Lady Suite, the debut album by the Michael Leonhart Orchestra (MLO) is inspired by the butterfly of the same name. While Leonhart was initially attracted to its flamboyant coloration and wing ornamentation, it was the butterfly’s incredible migration, which spans over six generations and 9,000 miles — twice that of the Monarch butterfly, that inspired the trumpeter/composer/bandleader to write his “Painted Lady Suite.”
 
Leonhart’s path toward the creation of MLO began in his youth. Born into a musical family, Michael was fascinated by orchestration, composition and counterpoint by the age of 10.  “I remember my mother playing all these amazing albums in the house growing up: the Miles & Gil Evans’ collaborations, Ellington Suites, Sinatra & Nelson Riddle, Quincy Jones and tons of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis,” Leonhart recalls. “While my dad Jay was out playing gigs and recording, it was my mother’s DJ’ing that was the ‘gateway drug’ that led me to discover Stravinsky, Ravel, Olivier Messiaen, Morricone and David Axelrod.” Leonhart has worked for decades as an accomplished trumpet player, arranger and composer, but it was when he took on the role as arranger/conductor for the 21-piece orchestra on guitarist Nels Cline’s eclectic Lovers album (Blue Note, 2015) that his love of conducting, arranging and composing for large ensemble was reignited. Once the album was finished, Leonhart was certain that he wanted to create a solo project in this vein, and thus the Michael Leonhart Orchestra was born.

“When creating MLO, my idea was to get an all-star mix of soloists, ensemble players and pocket-players who would be as comfortable playing Mingus and Ellington as they would be playing Wu Tang and Fela Kuti,” Leonhart says. “It was also important to me to steer clear of the traditional ‘big band’ instrumentation and have bassoon, accordion, bass harmonica and strings.” The Orchestra is comprised of a roster of some of the most sought after musicians in New York, including members of the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Maria Schneider’s Orchestra, the Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band and Antibalas. Working with these stellar musicians has given Leonhart the invaluable opportunity to workshop new arrangements of existing material, covering such artists as The Beastie Boys, Zappa and Bernard Herrmann, and new original compositions, building the repertoire in front of a rapidly growing audience.  

The Painted Lady Suite is broken into two parts with seven movements, which sonically parallel two separate migrations, one over North America into Canada and the other from the Arctic Circle over Europe into Northern Africa. Leonhart assigns different instruments and specific soloists to represent the changing climate and mood of the migration. The sonic migration begins with a mutating 21-bar phrase played by brass and woodwinds blending with violins and bass melodica as the chrysalises are shed and the butterflies take flight.

The Painted Lady Suite

The Silent Swarm Over El Paso

Michael Leonhart Orchestra - The Silent Swarm Over El Paso

4.The Horizon Master Def

Ce n'est qu'une maquette mais comment ne rien dire, ne rien faire ??!!...
A mon petit niveau, un hommage à toutes les vies enlevées avant l'heure à cause de la bêtise humaine.
Il va falloir rendre des comptes un jour au nom de l'Amour _/|\_
NO MORE !!!
RIP G. Floyd and the so many (too much) other martyrs 
:-(

Afrika Ka Pléré - Maquette - 31.05.2020

FOLLOW YOUR DREAM

Chanteuse, auteure, bassiste, compositrice. 
Leader du groupe Soley Mahogany (World, groove, soul Caribean Music)
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Afrika Ka Pléré - Maquette - 31.05.2020

NELLA CELESTE NEMORIN

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