Laurence Pike - Prophecy - VINYL LP

Kuba Kapsa is a Polish pianist and composer being the leader of the avant-jazz combo Contemporary Noise Sextet (2006-2014). Beyond that he is a renowned composer for film and theater plays. His latest venture is the first of a sophisticated series of projects of modern classical music bearing the common title InchVantdraughtInch.The first part of the InchVantdraughtInch series is called InchVantdraught 10Inch written for ten classical instruments - 4 violins, 2 violas, cello, vibraphone, marimba and piano. The music is largely based on a repetition of individual melodic motifs, which are also quite multithreaded within a given composition.

The Undreamt-of Centre is the fourth solo album by prolific Australian drummer/composer/producer Laurence Pike, an evocative, contemporary reimagining of the requiem mass. The album draws on the sounds of modern classical music, Japanese environmental ambient music, fourth world electronics, free jazz and the choral traditions of Estonia, with particular influence from Tallinn-based composer Tonu Korvits. Produced in collaboration with the Vox Sydney Philharmonia Choir, conducted by Pike's childhood friend, composer Sam Lipman and recorded in a 19th century Gothic church.Laurence Pike on The Undreamt-of Centre I first had the thought of working with voices a number of years ago. I had the strange notion of making a requiem mass for drums, electronics and choir. It sat with me since then, until it felt the time was right to realise the idea.Why a requiem? Initially I simply liked the idea of a structural that had existed and been reimagined again and again over hundreds of years. Ultimately, it's a ritual set to music. The processes and ecstatic outcomes of rituals, were something I had explored in making the Holy Spring album in 2019. I became interested in subverting the religious musical construct of a requiem into something far more contemporary, using language and sounds not readily associated with it. It also seemed a ready-made vehicle to explore the sound of a choir with my electro-acoustic drum kit performances.I had begun searching for a narrative structure or text that I might set a choir to, while not adhering to the text of a Latin mass. I began reading the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, in particular his 'Sonnets to Orpheus', inspired by the classical Greek myth of Orpheus.

The Dave Pike Set - Album - Recorded at MPS Studio, Villingen, 16th March 1971. Vibraphone, Percussion - Dave Pike, Bass, Electric Bass, Percussion - J. A. Rettenbacher, Drums, Percussion - Peter Baumeister, Guitar, Percussion - Volker Kriegel.