Hontele,Maite / Valle,Ramon - Havana - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 2. Mulata Rumbera 3. Havana Morning Light 4. Almendra 5. Porro Con Ramón 6. Johanna 7. Tributo 8. Odjus Fitchádu 9. Obsesión

Third Sound, hailed as a Inchforward-looking, expert ensembleInch (The New Yorker), presents it's debut album, Heard in Havana, featuring music by ten living American composers. In November 2015, the American Composers Forum (ACF) sent Third Sound and a delegation of ten composers to Havana, Cuba, to present a program of contemporary American music at the Havana Contemporary Music Festival. The program, presented in Havana's eighteenth-century Basílicia Menor de San Francisco de Asís, offered a unique snapshot of the vitality and diversity of the contemporary American musical landscape. The concert moreover represented an historic occasion against the sociopolitical backdrop of normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba, Third Sound presented the first concert entirely comprising contemporary American music, and with all composers in attendance, to take place in Cuba since before the Cuban Revolution. Heard in Havana documents Third Sound's Cuba residency, presenting the works performed at the Havana Contemporary Music Festival-music by Kati Agócs, Ingrid Arauco, Kai-Young Chan, Cindy Cox, Jeremy Gill, Michael Harrison, Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Wendell Jones, Amadeus Regucera, and Spencer Topel-all written since 2001 and representing a diverse group of composers from across the United States. The album encompasses a broad spectrum of modern musical aesthetics, reflecting the dynamism of American composition in the twenty-first century. Album Tracks 1. Details of the Strasbourg Rosace (2014) 2. Fantasy-Quartet (2001) 3. A Crowd of Twisted Things (2011) 4. Mieko (2014) 5. Paean, Epitaph and Dithyramb (2008) 6. Inexpressible (V. 2) (2013) 7. Radians Phase II (2015) 8. Wave I. Quietly Urgent (2009) 9. Smash (2006) 10.

Two worlds, one conversation. On Nuit Parisienne à La Havane, Cuban piano virtuoso Roberto Fonseca and French cellist Vincent Segal capture the magic of a first encounter - no rehearsals, no plan, just pure music. Recorded in Havana over five days, this album is a celebration of spontaneity, friendship, and the art of listening. Here, Paris meets Havana. The warmth of Cuban rhythms embraces the sophistication of French melody; echoes of danzón, chanson, classical and African influences intertwine seamlessly. Every track feels alive breathing, shimmering, unfolding like a dream that could only happen once.At a time when music is often polished, programed, and overproduced, Fonseca and Segal remind us what happens when you let go of control. This is music that doesn't need to prove anything, it simply is. Deeply human, effortlessly cinematic, Nuit Parisienne à La Havane feels like watching eleven short films through sound poetic, emotional, and timeless. Whether you're drawn to jazz, world, or classical music (or simply crave something honest and alive), this record will find it's way under your skin. It's an album to return to again and again, always revealing something new. Album Tracks 1. Rumbo a Ti 2. Soul Kiss 3. Nuit Parisienne 4. Paciencia Es Lo Que Hay Que Tener 5. Un Homme Qui Dort 6. Day 7. Violoncelle Pointe Noire 8. Free 9. La Mar Quieta, TÚ, Yo Pensando 10. Interlude Piano Silence Sound 11. Te Extraño (M.C.A)