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Executive Producer - Geoffrey Armes
Producer - Tom Desisto
Mixing Engineer - Tom Desisto
Recording Arranger - Geoffrey Armes
Composer - Geoffrey Armes
Percussion, Bass Guitar, Synths, Electric Guitar, E Bow Guitar, Wond Guitar - Geoffrey Armes
Drums - Tom Desisto

The Winter Years

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Leaves

“Bloodstream” is hybrid composition encompassing several musical genres. The primitive flute and percussion that begin the piece give way to a jazz-fusion tinged cello solo which evolves to an orchestral dynamic crescendo.  Although this track was wholly created using synthesizers and samplers it would be possible to involve live performers on flute, cello, brass and percussion against a prepared electronic track. 
“Bloodstream” was written expressly for Linda Diamond and Company to be used for their 2023 season.

Bloodstream

“1924” was originally written in 2009 for a film about NYC which was never finished.   I was asked to compose a piece that sounds “Gershwin-esque” and 1924 was the result.  As you can hear, it is also an exercise in traditional orchestration and, although it is realized by sampled instruments, all of the parts could be played by real players if the budget allowed.

“1924” was also used by Linda Diamond and Company back in 2010 for the choreographed piece entitled “Cuisine Flambe”.  The original dance was performed on ice skates!

1924

Hymn to the Earth was conceived and commissioned by Linda Diamond in the fall of 2023.  It  is a pastiche of worldwide indigenous music and modern styles performed by acoustic and sampled instruments supplemented by sound design.  We wish to thank the BBC sound effects library for use of their SFX, including the wonderful recordings of Indigenous singing performed by members of the Haida tribe, an Indigenous group who have traditionally occupied Haida Gwaii, an archipelago just off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Voiceover performed by Terry Blaine.

Hymn To The Earth

The new album by Geoffrey Armes. 

The Winter Years is a musical book in which quality of life, faith, love and meaning are given acoustic substance.

A few years ago, health problems significantly diminished Geoffrey's ability to make music. One morning he was introduced by his doctor to an unwanted and spectral friend: finality. He walked away with a prescription to palliate his condition which restored full use of his hands, and music flowed back into his sinews.

This seismic shift electrified Geoffrey to action. It revealed with irresistible intensity how freedom can appear in the place of choice, when choice is removed.

We can consciously make difficulty and struggle our conduit to sublime quality of sublime life. The motivation to record this album stems from Geoffrey's burning desire to share this revelation in his music. To make it available to anyone, anywhere who may take comfort, meaning or solace.

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The Winter Years

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