Adam Fischer - Concerto For Orchestra / Mandarin Suite - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

(2-LP set) Adam Rudolph and Go Organic Orchestra Find the Dynamic, Beautiful Center of Globally Informed, Improvisationally Generated SoundA walled city, a map of the world, a spiraling call A mandala's meaning extends far beyond pattern and line. It does more than represent an ideal or suggest a path. It is reality, laid out in it's true form, for US to contemplate. Composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph finds a similar shape of things via sound, enlisting the Go Organic Orchestra, an ensemble of players who can be assembled anywhere, anytime. In the project's latest iteration, Rudolph has gathered his longest collaborating group of musicians based in New York, for a series of elegant, diversely textured pieces that form a Sonic Mandala. Following a compositional and conducting approach Rudolph has honed over decades of contemplation, performance, and creation, the group delineates a space where contemporary classical, jazz, and global traditions effortlessly converge. Though Rudolph provides matrix-based scores and a streamlined vocabulary of conducting gestures to guide musicians, ultimately the pieces spring from the intent focus and spontaneous dialogue engendered in the musicians themselves. Album Tracks 1. Part One (Invitation) 2. Part Two 3. Part Three 4. Part Four 5. Part Five 6. Part Six 1. Part Seven (Slow) 2. Part Seven (Medium) 3. Part Seven (Fast) 4. Part Eight 5. Part Nine 6. Part Ten 7. Part Eleven 8. Part Twelve (Universal Mother)

In setting out to record the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler with the Dusseldorfer Symphoniker, Maestro Adam Fischer hoped to create something special with the ensemble. He hoped that conductor and musicians would mutually inspire one another, not creating Fischer's Mahler, but rather InchourInch Mahler. Fischer writes of this process InchWhenever I conduct Mahler, I attempt to find a way to formulate each symphony's world and it's emotional content in a way that I can apprehend. Out of the music, I spin stories for myself... It is the result of a long process, in the course of which I ensure that the scores become my innermost conviction. In my view, this is the conductor's task. It is exactly the opposite of Inchwork-to-rule.Inch

BGP brings you some great rare latin lounge sounds from Los Angeles' finest jazzers. These Mira, Surrey and Crestview recordings have been unavailable in any form since the '60s, and are available now for the first time on CD. This 23 track compilation includes the Mod club classics InchMonkey TimeInch and InchLa La La.Inch Includes a full color booklet with an interview with the band's producer and illustrations of the band's wonderful period LP covers. Album Tracks 1. Freaks 2. La la 3. Summertime 4. Let My People Go 5. Jerico 6. Monkey Time 7. Victims of Chance 8. Some Velvet Morning 9. Spartacus 10. Twilight Thunder 11. Down with Downers 12. Our Mambo 13. 3/4- 5/4- 7/2 (Liquid Landscapes) 14. Candie Luv 15. Pata Pata 16. In Crowd 17. Next Plane to London 18. Southside Habit 19. Mirror Image 20. Afro Rock 21. Moses 22. Evening of the Beast