Oskar Gigele wrote the piece Er liebt sie for his magister thesis. It is a re-imagination of Robert Schumann's song Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen. The text was changed entirely by Gigele, to fit a more modern context and add current topics such as homosexuality and self-determination. Musically the piece consists of many small building elements, derived from Robert Schumann's original chords, reshaped in a modern fashion, to give an entirely new tonal experience. The order of these small elements varies and gives the piece a natural vividity and smooth flow. While the majority of the piece has a melancholic feel to it, the mood shifts to a more humorous ending, inspired by the cheerful nature of the original piece.
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Oskar Gigele - Er Liebt sie

Shittin! Poopin! (Toosii x Fivio Foreign Jersey Club Mix)

Premiered by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir on March 19th, 2022

I was first drawn to this stunning William Carlos Williams text because of the beautiful way it spoke to a phenomenon with which every Bay Area denizen is familiar: the fog. He uses the backdrop of “a grey, broken sky” to illustrate the growing distance between two people, and the landscape in which they grow inevitably apart. Their bodies and minds attract and repel each other, only for them to find themselves ultimately on different levels, at unreconcilable planes of perspective in the haunting final quatrain. The “greyness” Williams speaks of is so evocative and could symbolize many things: mental illness, divergent life paths, resentment, or simply the suffocating forces of existence with which we all grapple. In my setting, I see the greyness as the very thing tearing these people apart; the word being filled with the frustration and anguish the speaker feels at the ever-widening gap before them. The grey is not just grey but filled with all the colors of a complicated relationship coming to a close.

Will it never be possible
to separate you from your greyness?
Must you be always sinking backward
into your grey-brown landscapes—and trees
always in the distance, always against a grey sky?

                          Must I be always
moving counter to you? Is there no place
where we can be at peace together
and the motion of our drawing apart
be altogether taken up?
                                 I see myself
standing upon your shoulders touching 
a grey, broken sky—
but you, weighted down with me,
yet gripping my ankles,—move
                          laboriously on,
where it is level and undisturbed by colors.

A Portrait in Greys

"The Sailor" is Jamie Zee's first single release. This original is a blend of R&B, soul, jazz, and pop.

Personnel: 
Jamie Zee - Voice
Gabe Zapata - Producer, sax
Julian Lopez - Keys
Alex Simmons - Guitar

The Sailor

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A Portrait in Greys

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