Thomas / Finckel / Chen - Ritual Incantations - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Enchanted Invocation is a work for solo percussionist playing vibraphone and 5 crotales. Augusta Read Thomas writes InchI love composing. In a good way, my nerve endings for sound are always dialed up high - actually, they are on perpetual alert. If I hear one note or chord or if, for example, I play one on an instrument, I get lit up as if electric shock ribbons instantly race from my ears and fingertips to my imagination and then my creativity and craft play high-speed ping-pong! Where the ball is bouncing back and forth 100 times a second. The outcomes are unpredictable to me. I stay absolutely flexible. Everything is malleable, springy, stretchy, coil-able, color-able, twistable, bouncing, zig-zagging, and splinter-able. It feels like I am dancing with contrapuntal flickering sonic lights that accumulate into a spinning pinwheel spawning sound and form. I slide, skate, swivel, and spin with my materials - crafting nuance and finesse - and then I sculpt, shape, chisel, fashion, and form. At the end of all of that, I feel as if the piece wrote me -not as if I wrote the piece! My music has it's own inner life. If I listen carefully, the piece I am composing will tell me what it next needs.Inch

The Ritual and the Cycle of Life that shape the repertory of Capella de Ministrers transcend cultural boundaries through the profound common root of the Mediterranean peoples. For centuries this mare nostrum has been a meeting ground, a space of coexistence for Jewish, Sephardic, Arab, Turkish, Greek, and many other communities, who shared languages, customs, and music in a web of exchanges and cross-fertilizations. After the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain in 1492, their communities maintained and enriched their musical and social traditions in their new settlements around the Mediterranean basin. Out of this arose a musical culture of great richness and diversity, expressed in many tongues-Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Bulgarian, Ladino-emblems of coexistence and dialogue among diverse peoples.Music is a universal language, able to convey sorrow, hope, spirituality, and the daily life of those who perform and share it. It is living testimony of collective memory and a tool of social cohesion. When we evoke places such as Casablanca, Salonika, Sofia, Ferrara, Venice, Odessa, Istanbul, Tangier, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Alexandria, Smyrna, or Jerusalem, we are giving voice to a common cultural memory and celebrating the dignity and historical wealth of the peoples of the Mediterranean. This Ritual, born of crossroads and of shared histories, embodies plurality, coexistence, and the integrative force of culture, standing against oblivion, genocide, and exclusion. To honor this legacy is itself an act of historical recognition and a pledge for coexistence, peace, and dialogue among cultures. Album Tracks 1. Adonay Bekol Shofar. Hebreo 2. Tzur Menati. Hebreo/Sefardí 3. Garibat & Al Maya. Marruecos (Instrumental) 4. Oh, Que Mueve Meses. Salónica 5. A la Nana Ya la Buba 6. Reng-E Esfahan (Instrumental) 7. Hamavdil. Hebreo/Sefardí 8. Nani, Nani.

Album Tracks 1. Sont Ou Les FÉS? 2. Jusqu'ici 3. Si Un Jour 4. Quand J'boé Pas 5. Retiens-Moi 6. Al Capone 7. Haut 8. 2 Ans 9. Roll-Up 10. Ferrari 11. La Rue 12. Pas ÉTÉ LÀ Pour Toi 13. Femme Au Québec 14. F**k You 15. Tu Disais 16. Parachute 17. Vie de Bandit 18. Comme Dans Le Temps 19. You Need to Know That 20. Derrière Les Rideaux