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Yearly Archives: 2003
Jens Joneleit: Chamber Music
Jens Joneleit is a modern composer who explores a range of moods and human expressions in avant-garde musical settings. This recording, featuring some of his chamber works written between 1998 and 2001, takes listeners on a musical journey that’s both … Continue reading
Special EFX: Party
Special EFX’s latest recording "Party" finds the jazzy instrumental group going in yet another musical direction – into the world of smooth, funky club music. Guitarist-composer Chieli Minucci wrote most of the material, which features David Mann’s distinctive saxophone. The … Continue reading
Shannon Lawson: the acoustic livingroom session
Shannion Lawson is a singer-songerwriter-guitarist who can easily fill a room with his large voice and high-energy picking, but whose reportoire is larger than its bluegrass- and country-inspired roots. On "the acoustic living room session," Lawson and his all acoustic … Continue reading
Devil’s Workshop Big Band: Idle Hands
The 17-piece Devil’s Workshop Big Band comes from Richmond, Virginia, where bandleader Stephen Norfleet the other members met while studying music at Virginia Commonwealth University. The band developed its improvisational jazz-meets-funk sound while playing weekly gigs. This first recording is … Continue reading
Virko Baley: Sacred Monuments
Virko Baley’s "Sacred Monuments: Symphony No. 1," is the composer-conductor’s meditation on the cycle of life and death. It is a grand work whose point of departure is the music and struggles of four Ukranian composers. Passages capture the hope … Continue reading