The Baseball Project - 3rd - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Baseballs sardonic rock chroniclers are back with band members Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, Linda Pitmon and Peter Buck drilling down even deeper into the lore-laden annals of baseball history. Album Tracks 1. 1976 2. Panda and the Freak 3. Fair Weather Fans 4. Don't Call Them Twinkies 5. Chin Music 6. Buckner's Bolero 7. Tony (Boston's Chosen Son) 8. Ichiro Goes to the Moon 9. The Straw That Stirs the Drink 10. Look Out Mom 11. Pete Rose Way 12. Twilight of My Career 13. Here Lies Carl Mays

Rock n' Roll vets Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, R.E.M.) and Steve Wynn have an unhealthy love for music undermined only by an even more unhealthy love of baseball. The compatriots blend their two passions with The Baseball Project - VOLUME 1 FROZEN ROPES AND DYING QUAILS, an album of buzzing guitars and baseball back stories. The heroes and villans of America's infamous pasttime are explored with cutting wit and fanboy detail in songs that satisfy both the summer's need for rock anthems and sweltering afternoon double headers. Drummer Linda Pitmon (Miracle 3, Golden Smog) and R.E.M.s Peter Buck round out the squad, as they spin tales of ill-fated drinking binges, near mythical icons, folk heroes and on InchGratitude (For Curt Flood), the overlooked man who changed the game. Album Tracks 1. Past Time 2. Ted Fucking Williams 3. Gratitude (For Curt Flood) 4. Broken Man 5. Satchel Paige Said 6. Fernando 7. Long Before My Time 8. Jackie's Lament 9. Sometimes I Dream of Willie Mays 10. Death of Big Ed Delahanty 11. Harvey Haddix 12. Yankee Flipper 13. Closer

While music for two pianos is encountered frequently, larger groups of pianos are rare, so this is an excellent opportunity to explore new and recent music for three pianos by composers from Turkey, Brazil, Spain and Italy. While exploring modern techniques the music is predominantly tonal, and remarkably light and clear-textured much of the time, though never facile or shallow. The composers have used the three keyboards to explore richer melodic lines and counterpoints while avoiding the temptation to create overwhelming walls of sound. The piece by Dallapicolla in particular is open-textured and quite traditional, predating his adoption of serialism. The album includes the world premiere recording of Saygun's major work 'Poem'. The three pianists are also international - Ucbasaran and Gallo now both live and teach in the USA and Chavaldas works in Spain. They met when students at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. They all have highly praised recordings and concert appearances to their credit and came together for this special album in 2010 though it has awaited it's until now. Album Tracks 1. Fikir Hücreleri (Idea Cells) 2. S'io esca vivo (If I Escape Alive) 3. Poem, Op. 73 4. Petit Nocturne Noir 5. Requiem for Mehmet 6. Musica per tre pianoforti (Inni - Hymn)~I. Allegro, molto sostenuto 7. Musica per tre pianoforti (Inni - Hymn)~II. Un poco adagio, funebre 8. Musica per tre pianoforti (Inni - Hymn)~III. Allegramente, ma solenne