A wonderful and fearsome array of colours, like a subterranean labyrinth or an apocalyptic vision. It holds our attention non-stop!

Beautiful work - thank you - I will listen again

Beautiful dark and ominous composition ... great build - wonderful orchestration

Monumental!  May I suggest you ask for re-posting on these two pages, they have great people listening to them: https://soundcloud.com/user-589026142 https://soundcloud.com/classical_music_repost

The tune you hear before you now was inspired by warm summer mornings, spent catching up over cups of tea with a good friend in his enchanting garden against a backdrop of birdsong.

Hortus began life as an oddly-matched jumble of bleeps and quirky beats, and was given shape and clarity when I stumbled by chance upon the sitar sample that you'll hear clips of throughout the piece. From that point on, the track steadily came together over a period of several weeks but, as with all of my song ideas that I eventually see through to completion, the original vision that inspired it remained with me right throughout the creative process.

Hortus was written and recorded during the summer of 2023 and was made entirely in Ableton Live 11, running on a Windows 11 laptop.

The artwork is by another good friend, the very talented collage artist Karl Vint, and is entitled, Looking Out For You.

Hortus

CAN I FIND IT AGAIN

Rest

Violin-bow on electric guitar, effect-pedals, unsynchronized loops, tube amps. Mellow piano in the background: someone's playing somewhere in the house during the recording. All sounds (except the piano), mixing and production: VSS. Image: Snowy bench, Berlin (photo: VSS).

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Thank you for checking out this Highlight reel of Eclectic Collective's greatest moments in the year 2023. JJ made this compilation of a bunch of our music from the past almost year. He asked us to ask a question and then answer it. Jeff kinda disregarded our questions and asked his own. So, the answers don't really match up. We thought that gives it a bit of a Spinal Tap effect. But we are all talking about things relevant to the music and the group. So, if you want to hear from us directly, this is the place to do it. The Eclectic Collective is a band of musicians who collaborate over the internet and communicate via email.
Not interviewed in this piece, but a big thank you from all of us goes to Artur of Surfers Like Us, Steve of Steve's Planet, and Chris of @cgmaness fame for their contributions to the group in 2023! Also a huge shout out to The Mysterious Decibel for adding all the great vocals our songs need.
Cast of characters:

Hosted by: StonerJazz on.soundcloud.com/6qwFQ

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary) - Bass, Lap Slide, Guitar, mandolin, synth, piano, organ @josh-clary-1
K2 and the Three - Drums, Percussion @k2andthe3
Llanpsych - Guitar, Effects @llanpsych 
TexMex Shaman - Guitar, Effects @texmex-shaman
J.J. Terrell - Keys, Synth, Organ, production on.soundcloud.com/ivM1E
MisterMark - Lyrics, Vocals, keys, drums, mix editing
on.soundcloud.com/qMWgp

The Eclectic Collective Rockumentary--Bits of Hits

The Flood Comes to Carchemish

Eye Bring Thee Dawn

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.  ― Sappho

Track list and start times:
00:00  fritz gessler – ave maria, mater dei
07:59  Paul Leonard-Morgan – Eel Warehouse (from Bodkin)
11:03  Dead Can Dance – Summoning of the Muse
15:48  Caroline Jago – Liminal
18:57  Found Tape – Everything That Is a Glowing Flame
24:04  Paul Casper – Earth Carver
32:58  RL Huber – Long Way Up
39:47  Clear Stream Temple – Age Of Terror
46:16  Delphine Dora – Samhain (excerpt)
50:21  Foreverless Eternity – Heavy Cloud I (excerpt)
54:41  A Bleeding Star – Vermilion Haze: Conversin' With My Future Shadow Self Inside A Concernin' Dystopian Maze
1:01:05  James A. McDermid – Red Waxed Tears
1:10:03  Michael Duane Ferrell – Samhuinn: Feast of the Dying Sun (excerpt)
1:16:26  Kammarheit – Kosmos
1:21:44  Porzellan – Hlaef-Masst
1:29:00  Coph Nia – Hive Mechanics
1:35:00  Zach Zinn – Eome Templebell
1:37:58  Syntropic – Oceans Beyond Earth
1:42:26  Second Thought – Optic
1:48:26  evergreen avenue – Sleeping with the Window Open (excerpt)
1:53:22  Tim Bass – Suspended Amongst Lakes
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Eclectic current – Summoning of the muse

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VOYAGE   8     -     2024

Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese
Marco Moresco, conductor

Dark Clouds, for orchestra

Composer

Biography

Vito Palumbo has been writing music since an early age. After studying at the conservatory he graduated with honors from the prestigious Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome studying with Azio Corghi. He also obtained a special scholarship personally awarded by Luciano Berio as the best graduate. In 2005 he was awarded the renowned ‘Premio G. Petrassi’ (established by the President of the Italian Republic at the Quirinale, Rome) for his compositional work.
Winner of numerous national and international composition competitions, Vito has received commissions and performances worldwide from institutions and ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Cepromusic Ensemble, Camerata Bern, Berlin Philharmonic Athenaeum Quartet, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Gävle Symfoniorkester, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Puebla, Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, Oradea State Philharmony, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, Academie de France, 'Parco della Musica', Nuova Consonanza, Festival Pontino di Musica 2021, Parade Contemporary Music Festival in Beijing, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, 'M. Botin' Foundation - City of Santander, Foundation Enescu, 'Future 99' - Crest, Montpellier International Festival, Barockmuseum Salzburg, Minnesota Marimba Festival and Conference 2010, Fondazione Lirico-Sinfonica Teatro Petruzzelli, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Italian Cultural Institute of Oslo and Belgrade and many others.
He has collaborated with great soloists such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Dan Laurin, Francesco D'Orazio, Anna Paradiso Laurin, Bahar Dorduncu, Luca Quintavalle, Mario Marzi, Niki Lada, Susanne Kessel, Duccio Ceccanti, Mats Olofsson, Ivan Donchev, Nicola Mazzanti, Nicola Fiorino, Giampaolo Nuti, Michele Marelli, Ivan Mancinelli, Christina Schorn, Michele Lomuto, Francesco Pepicelli, Tony Capula, Luis Aracama, Giulia Peri, Mario Caroli, Sante Tursi. Conductors include Lee Reynolds, Jaime Martin, Stefano Trasimeni, Magnus Fryklund, Marco Angius, Marcello Fera. Ensembles such as Ensemble InterContemporain, Camerata Bern, El Cimarrón Ensemble, Norrbotten NEO, Duo Alterno, AuditivVokal Dresden, Ensemble Conductus, Algoritmo Ensemble, New Made Ensemble, ContepoArt Ensemble, Freon Ensemble, NYKY Trio, Laborintus Trio, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Ianus Piano Duo, Dèdalo Ensemble, Stenhammar Quartet, Fiarì Ensemble, Camerata Musicale Mistà, Collegium Musicum.
His output in musical theatre has been consolidated for ten years in collaboration with the singer-actress Sonia Bergamasco.
Several important broadcasters have broadcast his works, including RAI Radiotre, Channel V Music RAI, Rai Tre, Arté France, Sky Classical, Radio France and Radio Wien.
His works have been published by Ries&Erler Musikverlag, Berlin, Suvini Zerboni, Milan, and Edizioni Musicali Rai Com, Rome.
He has released several CDs with the labels BIS Records (of which he is the main artist), Rai Trade, Stradivarius, Digressione Music, Brilliant Classics, Ars Spoletium, and Kessel Music projects.
His production in recent years has focused on large symphonic works for large orchestra. The Recorder Concerto was commissioned by Gävle Symfoniorkester and Dan Laurin, for a monographic CD for the Swedish label BIS Records.
On 17 September 2016, he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios (Studio 1) his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Musikverlag Ries & Erler, Berlin) with Francesco D'Orazio, soloist and Lee Reynolds, conductor. The monographic album was released by Bis Records and received more than 20 “5-star” reviews from the major specialized magazines in the world, and an ICMA nomination.

About the music

Starting with postmodern experiments in the first period, he after focused on some musical theater forms exploring the possibilities of the voice (melologue) researching various ways in the voice emission with the study of phonemes in many works devoted to the musical theater (Butterfly, Cinque di Cuori, Il Catalogo, Sinforosa, La machine de sons, Comuni-Canti, Les Animaux) along with some influences from his teachers (Azio Corghi and Luciano Berio) about this vocal research.
His output in recent years has focused on large symphonic works for the full orchestra. The Violin Concerto, the Clarinet Concerto, the Piano Concerto, the Recorder Concerto, the Double Concerto for Guitar and Marimba, Drops for harp and string orchestra, Fragile for electric guitar and string orchestra and Dark Clouds for orchestra, represent his full research in further possibilities of the orchestral colors and textures, but also in an organic idea of interconnected and interdependent formal moments and gestures, like a network of neural connections. In the last works, the timbre as color leads to a new idea of "sound-light", researched also with the help of electronics mixed with instrumental sounds (Chaconne, for electric violin and electronics) and thanks to a research of extended techniques also open to the orchestral writing. 
To his interest in astronomy, the goal is to research an abstract "core sound" in a unique and large movement (every work is never organized in separate movements), like eternal cosmic energy of which we are but a small circumscribed point.

Dark Clouds, for orchestra

Vito Palumbo

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