Ned Rothenberg - Solo Works: The Lumina Recordings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Dance Above 2. Denali 3. Resistance Anthem 4. How You Slice It 5. Plun Jah 6. Brief Tall Tale 7. Urgency 8. Flurry 9. Bounding Not Binding 10. Fra Gile 11. Inner Briation 12. Tender Hooks 13. Bellkeybell 14. 'Round Midnight

Solus is a collection of free improvisations for solo piano by San Francisco-based composer/improviser Ernesto Diaz-Infante. Solus is comprised of 13 short abstract improvs, allowing the listener to experience a new dimension of Diaz-Infante's piano work. Born in Salinas, California, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, is Chicano (of Mexican descent). He received his MFA in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts (studied with Wadada Leo Smith and Stephen L. Mosko) and has created musical compositions that span a broad perspective transcendental piano, noise, avant-garde guitar, field recordings, lo-fi four-track manipulations, and experimental song. ED-I has performed throughout Europe and the United States, and his music has been broadcasted internationally. He has recorded more than 15 CDs of music and collaborated with numerous musicans. In 2000, his composition, I/O (for chamber ensemble), was performed by the California EAR Unit. He has been awarded residencies at the Centre International de Recherche Musicale (CIRM) in Nice, France, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Villa Montalvo, The Ucross Foundation, among others. He runs Pax Recordings record tag which is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and contagion of music from the margins of our culture and psyches. He lives in San Francisco with the filmmaker/video artist Marjorie Sturm and their son and daughter. Album Tracks 1. I 2. II 3. III 4. IV 5. V 6. VI 7. VII 8. VIII 9. IX 10. X 11. XI 12. XII 13. XIII

'Going all the way back to the Celts and the Druids, the term nemeton designates a place where forces and energies are crystallized, generally clearings where solemn or ritual actions were performed. The best-known nemeton is certainly Stonehenge. The architectural marvel of Chartres Cathedral is built on a nemeton. In composing this piece for solo percussion, I wanted to depict a InchplaceInch of this kind by means of sound. I'm utterly fascinated by the instrumentarium of this work, consisting chiefly of metal, wood and skin instruments that don't have their own InchspecificInch resonance. The trajectories between the different tones condition and define the energy charge, rather as if two beings, in the mad hope of an encounter, were rushing towards each other', writes Matthias Pintscher as an introduction to one of the pieces in this monograph of works composed between 2000 and 2018 it also includes his violin concerto Mar'eh, the concerto for piano and ensemble Nur, Beyond for flute, Verzeichnete Spur, Lieder und Schneebilder, Celestial Object I & II and Occultation. Album Tracks 1. Nemeton 2. Mar'eh 3. Verzeichnete Spur 4. Nur 5. Beyond (A System of Passing) 6. Lieder Und Schneebilder 7. Sonic Eclipse