Salting the Earth: The taking of Soledar, Part I in A min. Ch. VII of Ukraine: The Burning of the Phoenix Series.

#Soledar (Соледа́р) formerly known as Karlo-Libknekhtovsk (Карло-Лібкнехтівськ), is a city in Bakhmut Raion, which is located in #Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.

The Battle of Soledar began in early August, with Russian forces capturing much of the eastern half of Soledar by September, although being stalled afterwards. As of January 11th, control of Soledar is disputed, with some sources claiming that Russia's #Wagner Group were in control of the settlement, while others dispute this version.

Following the capture of #Bakhmutske by the Russian forces on 27 December, Russian sources claimed that Russian forces seized the #Dekonskaya railway station on the southern outskirts of Soledar on 4 January

The fall of Soledar may help Russian troops in their assault on the strategic Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, about 10km (6 miles) to the south west, providing them with a secure artillery position within range of the city.

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Ukraine: The Burning of the Phoenix

Salting the Earth: The Taking of Soledar in A minor, Part I (OST)

Salting the Earth: The Taking of Soledar, Part II in A min.
Ch. VIII of Ukraine: The Burning of the Phoenix
According to Ukraine, more than 100 Russian troops were killed in the battle for the eastern town during the past 24 hours. Ukraine said on Thursday its troops were holding out despite heavy fighting on a battlefield littered with bodies in a salt mining town in Eastern Ukraine, where Russian mercenaries have claimed Moscow's first significant gain in half a year.

The ultra-nationalist contract militia Wagner, run by an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin outside the main chain of military command, claims to have taken Soledar after intense fighting that it said had left the town strewn with Ukrainian dead. Russia says its forces are edging closer to capturing Soledar, a salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine, which would mark an elusive victory for the Kremlin but comes at the cost of heavy Russian casualties and extensive destruction of the territory they claim.

Moscow has held off officially proclaiming victory. "At the moment, there are still some small pockets of resistance in Soledar," Andrei Bayevsky, a Russian-installed local politician, said in an online broadcast. Ukraine has acknowledged Russian advances but Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar told a briefing on Thursday that fighting was still fierce. The Russians were "moving over their own corpses," she said. Reuters was unable to independently verify the situation. “The Russians have literally marched on the bodies of their own soldiers, burning everything on their way,” Kyrylenko said, while reporting that Russian forces had shelled a dozen towns and villages in the region in the past day.

Soledar’s fall would be a prize for a Kremlin starved of good battlefield news in recent months after losing the significant city of Kherson in December. It had barely 10,000 inhabitants before the war. Russia has failed in repeated attempts to capture the far more important nearby city of Bakhmut, 10 times as large. Across Ukraine, the front lines have barely budged since Russia's last big retreat in the south two months ago. Kyiv hopes heavy armour from Western allies will allow it to resume advances.

Russian and Western commentators alike saw attempts to shift blame for setbacks in which Russia has lost around 40 per cent of the territory it had seized since February. The Russians’ tactic in the assault on Soledar has been to send one or two waves of soldiers, many from the private Russian military contractor Wagner Group who take heavy casualties as they probe the Ukrainian defences, a Ukrainian officer near Soledar told The Associated Press. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of Donetsk, told Ukrainian state TV that 559 civilians remained in Soledar, including 15 children, and could not be evacuated. “Russia is driving its own people to the slaughter by the thousands, but we are holding on.”

When asked about Prigozhin’s victory claims, Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists: “Let’s not rush, let’s wait for official statements. There is a positive dynamic in progress.”

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Salting the Earth: The Taking of Soledar, Part II in A min. (OST)

Bakhmut: The humbling of the Valkyries in C Major, Part I. Chapter IX of Ukraine: The Burning of the Phoenix Series

In late December 2022, the battle for Bakhmut appeared to be on the brink as Russia's mercenary unit, the Wagner Group, suffered heavy losses in the city in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, according to an assessment by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Russian continues to use their soldiers as cannon fodder. In the battles for Bakhmut and Soledar alone, the Wagner Group private military company lost about 40,000 soldiers, accounting for about two-thirds of its personnel.

Putin tried to give the order to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk region by the end of 2022. It did not work. In fact, they are suffering very unprecedented losses there and attempted to switch to Soledar, where Prigozhin tried to play himself as an independent commander.

He failed: Wagner Group suffered simply incredible losses there. At the moment, about 40,000 personnel are estimated to be killed and wounded, accounting for about two-thirds of this structure.

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin responded to comparisons between himself and the monk Rasputin who treated the son of the last tsar for haemophilia, saying on Sunday his job was not to staunch bleeding but to spill the blood of Russia’s enemies.

Prigozhin, like Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, another active supporter of Russia’s war, “has positioned himself as a searing critic of military, bureaucratic and business elites who are supposedly failing Putin with their half-hearted, incompetent approach to the war”.

Putin has, in recent days, begun to see Yevgeny Prigozhin as a potential rival to his power in Russia. Given the Kremlin's history of dealing with threats to its power, this doesn't bode well for the Wagner leader.

Bakhmut: The humbling of the Valkyries in C Major, Part I

Bakhmut: The humbling of the Valkyries in C Major, Part II. Chapter X of Ukraine: The Burning of the Phoenix Series.

A former member of the private militia escaped to Norway seeking asylum. He is under tight security over fears for his life. Norwegian authorities say they have detained a Russian man who may have illegally entered the country seeking asylum on January 13. The individual in question, Andrey Medvedev, is a former member of Russia's notorious Wagner Group, a private militia active in Ukraine as well as in Africa and Syria.


Andrey Medvedev, 26, crossed the border into Norway last Friday, where he was detained by border guards. He is currently being held in the Oslo area where he faces charges of illegal entry to Norway, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told the BBC. Tarjei Sirma-Tellefsen, police chief of staff in the Norwegian region of Finnmark, said a man had been detained by a border patrol and said he had applied for asylum.


Medvedev is a former soldier in the Russian army. He later served time in prison between 2017 and 2018, before joining the Wagner Group. He was placed in charge of a Wagner division in Ukraine, where the mercenary group supplied him with around 30-40 troops every week. Mr Medvedev said he fled Ukraine in November after being informed that the group intended to extend his contract indefinitely. It is believed Mr Medvedev had taken some evidence of war crimes with him to Norway and that he intends to share his information with groups investigating war crimes in the coming weeks.


The UK's Ministry of Defense officials believe the Wagner Group makes up about 10% of Russia's forces in Ukraine, and played a significant part in helping Moscow's forces take the town of Soledar in eastern Donbas region last week. Briefly arrested upon his arrival in Norway and then released, Medvedev has or will soon be questioned by both Norwegian immigration authorities and the criminal police (Kripos), which is taking part in an international inquiry into war crimes in Ukraine. Medvedev's Norwegian lawyer, Brynjulf Risnes, told AFP his client was "willing to speak about his experiences in the Wagner Group to people who are investigating war crimes".

Bakhmut: The humbling of the Valkyries in C Major, Part II

Nawala sa Pangasinán in B♭ minor, Part I - Chapter I of the New Antiquities Series

Brand New Antiquities Series

Nawala sa Pangasinán in B♭ minor, Part I

The 5th movement is the soundtrack to a fantasy newsreel that depicts the hopeful rapid rebuilding of Fukushima and the healthy return to life.

Silent Harvest - 5th Movement "The Rising"

This is a 'jazz' version for flute and rhythm section from the opening of my 13th symphony.

From #13

'Stepchild' is based on elements from John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps', 
a kind of looking thru the looking-glass at an evocative side of Coltrane's harmonic voyage.
Solos: Bevan Manson, piano; Phil O'Connor, clarinet; MB Gordy, percussion.
Members of the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted by Jeffrey Schindler:
Tom Boyd, oboe;
Catherine Del Russo, Eng. horn
Violins: Amy Hershberger, Eric Hosler, Susan Rishik, Neil Samples, Joel Pargman, Irina Voloshina, Alyssa Park, Margaret Wooten, Alwyn Wright, Raphael Rishik, Nancy Roth 
Violas: Pamela Goldsmith, Vicky Miskolczy, Carol Kleister-Castillo, Alan Busteed 
Cellos: Andrew Shulman, Maurice Grants, Diego Miralles, Steve Velez 
Bass: Don Ferrone, Sue Ranney, Stephen Dress

Stepchild

Conflict, whether brought on by neglect (Angry winds fostered by climate change bring fire to the Ventura hills), or an insatiable drive for power (almost any war), is avoidable, but what is the answer?
We know the results before they even happen....
(Solos: Amy Hershberger, violin; Luca Alemanno, bass; Bevan Manson, piano; Bernie Dresel, drums) Also: Nancy Mathison, bass clarinet; Geoff Nudel, alto saxophone; Nick Agdag, bassoon; Irina Voloshina, violin)

Fire Horizon

Almadraba is an Arabic word; it is a sustainable fishing method first practiced by the Phoenicians at the cost of Andalusia for over 3000 years. "Traveling Through Water" is the title of this song after the journey of the bluefin tunas from the North Atlantic to the Mediterraneo Sea, crossing the Gibraltar Straight. All the music was inspired by the almadraba and almadraberos from Zahara de los Atunes, in Andalusia, Spain. The album features legendary bassist Ron Carter.

Almadraba

TRAVELING THROUGH WATER

01 TRAVELING THROUGH WATER

"El Ronqueo," the instruments evoke the sound of knives rubbing on fish bones.

EL RONQUEO

07 EL RONQUEO

Christmas Night

Recording with Jinjoo

Summertime - WHOSE VERSION IS THIS??

A Jazz Thang in "3" starts...Then suddenly it's a Jazz-inflected Chorale of voices

ALnWOOD  LEGIT(Draft) 3 Thang(2023)

Commissioned for  the film by artist Mildred Howard  "The Time and Space of Now"  2021

Om Monk

Born in the island of Hispaniola; I am a Software Engineer, Private Researcher, Writer and Self-Taught musician & composer (Classical/Jazz fusion) based in North-West Alberta, Canada. I play Piano, Alto Sax & Latin Percussion. All the compositions in this channel are improvisations. That is, they are Conceptualized, Compossed , Arranged & Performed, for better or worse in real time, in a single take. What you hear is these compositions being born, taking form, as-it-happen. There may be some minimal re-arrangement, editing and/or  post-processing; but the nature of the original composition remains intact.

I am fluent in English, French, Italian & Portuguese. (and others, at novice level) I have a deep and wide musical palette. As long as the music moves me, I am all for it. My current area of research is Machine Learning, IoT, and Autonomous Heavy Equipment. Check out my portfolio on medium at https://albromani.medium.com 
Checkout my YouTubeChannel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCibMYBWb7MF5v5iV3teRnFQ
Listen, Comment & Repost freely. Much Love y'all ❤️

Professional musician, composer and vocalist, toured with Joe Jackson, singer-songwriter in NYC, sang opening credits on TV series "Cold Case" . Ahh---aahhh.

CHRIS BROWN, composer, pianist, and electronic musician, makes music with self-designed sonic systems that include acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, interactive software, computer networks, microtonal tunings, and improvisation. His compositions are designs for performances in which people bring to life the musical structures embedded in scores, instruments, and machines.

With all the recent Corona Virus issues, I, like so many musicians all over the world, have lost most of my work since there are no live gigs for the time being. If you feel led to support in some fashion, I would greatly appreciate it. Woody is a Musician/ Bassist/ Songwriter/ Arranger/ Producer/ Vocalist/ Music Director currently w/Gary Puckett and the Union Gap and Music Director for Ebenezer Baptist Church in Cordova, SC...Woody plays and performs in many styles, but is a Jazz artist

Bevan is active as a composer/arranger/jazz pianist in L.A. and Albuquerque. He has received composing commissions from Sierra Chamber Music, the Pacific Philharmonic Foundation, the San Francisco Symphony,  the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, clarinetist Gary Gray, and L.A. Chamber Orchestra violist Victoria Miskolczy, among others.

He wrote and conducted string arrangements for saxophonist Gary Smulyan at New York's Blue Note jazz club, and recently wrote string arrangements for Manhattan Transfer singer Cheryl Bentyne’s new Sondheim album, of which JazzTimes Magazine commented that “ a kaleidoscopic, edge-of-sanity Comedy Tonight that, courtesy of arranger Bevan Manson, blends Baroque courtliness with Big Top buffoonery.” He recently produced and wrote arrangements for L.A. singer Cathy Segal-Garcia’s new album as well. 
(If you want to contribute to Bevan's upcoming orchestral album for next year, Paypal is the place: bevanmanson@gmail.com  or see below. Thanks!)

Bevan’s new (mostly) trio album, ‘The Jazz Cave’, has just been released on the Meistero Music label this August.  Also arriving soon is a jazz/studio orchestra CD and a classical CD as well.

His music has been featured in several major films, including Morgan Spurlock’s movie, ‘The Greatest Story Ever Sold’. His music has appeared in several TV series including‘Breaking Bad’.
He has written scores for several independent films including ‘Banya’ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T58KWe_fcUI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghqD10WF1mc), ‘Killian’s Chronicle’, and ‘The Imported Bridegroom’. 

He also worked on the theme song for the TV series ‘Parks and Recreations’, and has appeared on-camera as a sideline musician on other shows such as ‘House’, ‘My Boys’, ‘JAG’, and ‘Numbers’, among others.

The Washington Post called his Piano Quartet “powerfully polyrhythmic…also with sweet lyricism”.  The piece received an American Music Center (now New Music USA) grant.

Other works of his include a violin sonata, woodwind quintet, woodwind trio, a symphony, string quartets and trios, choral music with orchestra, and music for solo woodwinds.  He is a founding member along with Ed Neumeister and Gernot Wolfgang of the Improvisatory Minds composers group.

 His ‘California Concertino’ was premiered by Katherine Fink of the Brooklyn Philharmonic with Paul Dunkel conducting, and also performed by L.A. Chamber Orchestra flutist David Shostac with the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony.

New tracks tagged #jazz/Classical