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Nothing Is Sacred  (remix)

Wheel Of Fortune  (remix)

All Fall Down

A funky tune inspired by real life events.

Get Right

Progressive tune influenced by classical music and avant-garde jazz with some  saxophone improvisations.  It is important to note that this is an unfinished version, a work in progress actually.  I still need to add some flute, saxophone, voice, and guitar parts and then do quite a bit of mixing and mastering until this version is done.  I just wanted to share with you the process up to this point before you hear the finished version.

Prelude/The Fall/Phase One(Complete)/Deception/Tomb Of Sorrows

Down Easy

A spontaneous improvisation in a modern abstract expressionistic style.

Essay No. 1 (Outside A Smile Inside A Frown)  For Solo voice And extended flute technique

A spontaneous improvisation in a modern abstract expressionist style.

Essay No. 2 (Loss And Grieving) For solo voice And extended flute technique (recorded 12 04 2017)

I composed Freedom Struggle in 2017 and recorded it live at my studio in january of 2018.  It features: Zae Tinaza; alto saxophone.  Alan Cook; drums.  Nick Rawson; double bass.  Ariel Calabria; electric guitar

Freedom Struggle

Zae is an experimental and avant-garde composer, improviser, sound instillation artist, classically trained singer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator with over 40 years of experience and practice and 23 years of extensive study with some of the worlds most renouned musicians and educators such as: Bert Wilson, Mark Levine, Mel Martin, Dr. Francis Feldon, G.S. Sachdev and Maestro David P. Kyle to name a few and at American River College, Pacific Lutheran university, and Dominican University.  Being an extremely versatile as well as masterful musician zae  has performed everything from classical music, opera, avant-garde and straight ahead jazz, folk, blues, soul, and funk, progressive rock as well as metal throughout his lengthy career; and he always brings tons of energy and passion to everything he does.  Zae has performed in small clubs, concert halls, theaters, as well as huge auditoriums such as the Crest Theater and the Marin Civic Center and has recorded, performed, shared the stage and participated in sessions with musicians as varied as: Gail Muldrow (from Sly And The Family Stone, Graham Central Station, and Prince), Sam Andrews(Big Brother And The Holding Co.), Elvin Bishop, Terry Haggerty(the Sons Of Champlin), Phillip Wayne Greenlief, Ansley Dunbar(Frank Zappa), Mike Varney (Shrapnel Records), Peter Keys(P-funk), and Danny Uzylevsky, Ariel Calabria, Steve Luceno, Ryan Donnely, Cooper Schlegel, and Alan Cook to name a few.  In 1996 zae was a recipient of the Mayflower Choral Society scholarship award for exhibiting exceptional musical talent.  Zae was involved with the Marin Opera Co. from 1996-98.  He performed for the San Francisco Pocket Opera in 1997.  Zae regularly combines so called disparate elements in his music reaching back to antiquity and looking to the Native Americans as well as the Asiatic and middle eastern cultures for musical inspiration and source material.  He explores textural space and incorporates just intonation, which is an intonation system used before the tempered system in popular use today, into his compostions.  Zae's interest in microtonality has led him to the book "Harmonic Experience" by W.A. Matthieu, which he says has really helped him open up his ears and better understand the science and range of sound.  In recent years he has been composing and working with a just intonated 10 string microtonal guitar that gets 53 notes in the octave.  Every time you pick up this instrument he says it transports you to a different part of the world.  This instrument can really help one open up their worldly ears.  With a deep interest in the spiritual value of music zae has also spent a handful of years studying the healing power of sound and has taken sound healing workshops at Dominican University and the Global Institute in San Francisco.  He discovered the lost ancient solfeggio scale and has begun using the solfeggio tuning forks in his practice for a couple of years now.  Zae says "music is much more than just entertainment, it is an ancient healing art and when created with good intention and a strong will it is very powerful medicine and it's vibrations can penetrate deep into the cellular structures of life and even transform D.N.A.  Everything in life is made up of vibrations.  And, in fact, on the deepest level we are all energy beings made up of frequency waves of infinite potential".

Zae Tinaza

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