Awaken the Music

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.

There's nothing to say.
What brilliant execution.

 

 

we have the same dress, actually.

because we haven't watched it ourselves in a while....

  

 

Karavika

Allow us to humbly make you a recommendation. We give you Karavika, a multi-culturally influenced quartet that's worth your time - these cats are badass.

 

 

Just in Time

We've been needing some more of this stuff in our lives.

  

We give you Seryn, a Denton, TX band that proves that some artists on the Indie-Rock circuit (a) can live outside Williamsburg, (b) don't have to be total douches, and (c) are allowed to be actual musicians.

These cats are all multi-instrumentalists, they're trained, they're artists, and they're fucking good. Our personal recommendation is River Song - but seriously, buy this album. We're supposed to hate stuff like this. We tried; we can't. It's perfect.

 

Gil Scott-Heron (1949 - 2011)

 

 

via www.npr.org

Wow.

In our somewhat-frequent lecturing on the history of American music, we often find ourselves waxing philosophical on the curiosity that hip hop, unlike the blues, jazz, or country music, seems to have a majority of its artists (and especially listeners) completely unaware of their own history.

Anyone who has not heard Scott-Heron's the Revolution Will Not Be Televised, we invite you here:

It's important to note that like Afrika Bambaataa, Scott-Heron spent a significant amount of time and energy trying to keep Hip-Hop's positive impact on culture - '94's Message to the Messengers is here, for your reference. Naturally, the majority of his descendants didn't listen.

 

alice. for the Holidays!

Still not sure what to do for your loved ones this Holiday season? Allow us to make a recommendation:

 

the grand unveiling.

from the Awakening Orchestra website... enjoy:

(Salvador Dalí - the Tower, 1934)

it's up, finally - audio from the premiere of this is not the answer is available for your consumption. click here:

this is not the answer.

program notes to come soon from the composer, bear with him. those of you looking for the archive from the whole show can find that here.

enjoy.

 

in keeping with the times

After one too many instances of his loyal constituents going to his website and finding a 1974 gig schedule and a catalog of 'I've Been Screwed by Tricky Dick' merchandise, we finally kicked Kyle's ass into shape:

Ladies, Gentlemen, Corporate Entities, we present to you the new, the improved, the undeniably sexy,

kylesaulnier.com

That's right. Or, mostly right. It's up. We're working on the final pretty stuff, so pardon the dust - we promise it'll be done before they finish the 59th street subway reno.

Poke around all you want; soon we'll have the oft-promised compositions for sale, pretty pictures, all the usual trimmings. For now, you'll have to content yourself with checking every hour to see what we've changed. Which we encourage.

Audio from the premiere of This Is Not the Answer coming early next week. We promise.