Awaken the Music

I finally got the venue I wanted...

We'd like to call your attention to a performance this Friday (02/10) of the Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra, 8pm at the Douglass Street Music Collective. Very heavy free composition by Ben Miller - extremely cool and very challenging.

i am the walrus.

This one's been blowing our mind...

Check out Sir George Martin in the studio with his son Giles and Dhani Harrison (George's son) revisiting 'Here Comes the Sun', complete with lost lead guitar track, and a synth or something at 1:40 that still might possibly cause a sexual reaction, we're not sure yet.

 

 

 

What kills us is that just from this clip you can hear that there's literally hundreds of different songs that could have come out of this material - one button, and it's an entirely different track. If that's not genius, f*ck genius.

the Awakening Orchestra, this Monday!

    That's right - we set your tea to STEEPIN'. Hitting the Tea Lounge's Size Matters series HARD like Oolong on a Thursday, the Awakening Orchestra's gonna Chamomile your Earl Grey like it's a sissy little herbal peach-lookin' thing.

How you like us now?

Invite some friends - the tea is slammin'. The band is tea. Which is slammin'.

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ks - conductor
rob mosher, vito chiavuzzo, samuel ryder, andrew gutauskas, dr. felipe salles - reeds
daniel urness, seneca black, nadje noordhuis, tatum greenblatt - trumpets
michael boscarino, barbara hamilton, ben griffin, joe barati - trombones
seth fruiterman - voice
james shipp, michael macallister, aaron kotler, joshua paris, will clark - rhythm

 

Dude? Tomorrow's already the tenth...

Has it been a month? How embarassing.

Allow us to submit, then, some great footage from the last Awakening Orchestra show - a new arrangement of 'You Still Believe in Me, by Mr. Brian Wilson. The incomparable Patrick Cornelius on alto saxophone.

 

 

 

I'd love it if you came, and gave me notes...

We humbly invite you to the Spot @ the Brooklyn Lyceum this Wednesday night (November 9th) for the final 2011 appearance of the Awakening Orchestra, our flagship ensemble bringing you all things epic since 2006. The band is rocking, as always, and the performance will include new music.

8pm
$10
2 sets, no repeats 

Featuring:
ks
mosher / cornelius / ryder / gutauskas / salles
urness / gorham / heflin / dizack
griffin / hamilton / musselman / seigel
dingman / macallister / kotler / paris / clark
hetherington / fruiterman 

Red Ball Rising - out now!

We're stoked to announce the official dropping of Natalie Riccio's much-vaunted Red Ball Rising, a straight-up killing record full of Natalie's most haunted collection t0-date.

Featured on the album:
    strings and horns arranged and orchestrated by kyle saulnier
    horn section includes Awakening Orchestra stalwarts vito chiavuzzo, matthew musselman, and kyle saulnier
     string quartet includes alice. member amali premawardhana

Available now at CD Baby - this is some heavy music, people.

her life was in our hands, man.

We wanted to share this with you.

We don't know Dayna personally, but we know his music and we know his reputation, and believe us when we say that this is a man (and musician) worth saving.

If you'd prefer to fast-track:
National Kidney Foundation
Paired Donation
Kidney Registry

and most importantly:
HelpDaynaStephens.org

 

  

A great vid from k's recent performance with the Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra, performing 'Cloud 11' by Benjamin Miller:

  

this is our concern, Dude.

A Blog Supreme (ever the hippest pamphlet about the top 10% of our genre) reduced us to tears yesterday with this article on the Artist Revenue Streams project, a study in just how much it SUCKS to be a jazz musician - even the top grossing ones, which is what it seems to have (and therefore provide) the most data on. The outlook, of course, is bleak, and that's whithout considering those artists whose bag lies on the fringe of the genre - those artists unrecognized by the Mount Olympus alliance.

The message?
Keep the faith, friends, stay the course. And keep the day job.

Mr. Harrison's in seclusion in the West Wing....

Loving this article on George Harrison from the Week (originally from Rolling Stone) - we always thought of him as conflicted, but a good job here by Brian Hiatt narrating the ebb and flow of his comfort level with fame. Lennon's spiritual persona was always on display, in your face, it seems; Harrison was no less ethereal, but quietly, and it seems, in stints.

"Look, we're not these bodies, let's not get hung up on that." - beautiful.