Dave Gotay, Cellist for Harlem Chamber Players
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Gene Pritsker writes:
Hi folks
I would like to invite you to my CD release concert for my new album
'Samplestra'.
Advance tickets are $10 ($15 at the door)
All proceeds from this concert will go directly to
the Dave Gotay fund, to help our friend in his time of
need
Composers Concordance Records
presents the CD Release Concert for
'Samplestra'
the Electro - Acoustic music of Gene Pritsker
Thursday, May 23rd, 9:30pm 2013
DROM
NYC
85 Avenue A New York, NY 10009
(212) 777-1157
Tickets: $10 adv and $15 at door - Ticket Purchase Includes the new
cd
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For more information, contact:
Composers Concordance Records
646 522 9442
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Composers Concordance Records celebrates its May 2013 release
of Gene Pritsker's new album: 'Samplestra', an album of
the Electro - Acoustic music .
"Samplestra is the name I give to any prerecorded elements in my
music. I see it as an orchestra of samples, since I use little fragments
of pre existing music or sounds and manipulate them to my own
composition. I treat these samples as found objects to write new music
with. This CD represents 14 compositions that use Samplestra in
combination with solos or small chamber ensembles ."
The concert will feature performances by: Edmundo Ramirez - Viola
D'amour, Franz Hackl - trumpet, Michiyo Suzuki - clarinet, Margaret
Lancaster - flute,
Cesare Papetti - percussion, Borislav Strulev - cello, Greg
Baker - guitar, Lynn Bechtold - violin, John Clark - horn
You can sample music from the album and learn more about it here: http://noizepunk.wix.com/samplestra
The Album has received some
great Reviews:
"'Samplestra' combines electronic samples with classical
instruments... The result is fascinating. This is contemporary classical
music at its best. I love it."
- United-Mutations. May, 2013
"As music, which ultimately we of course evaluate anything new on
the basis of, it hangs together remarkably well. Don't try to pin it down
stylistically but let it take you where it may. If you do that you will
find an enormously stimulating program. This is the sort of thing Gene
has been working on for some time, and he has gotten extraordinarily
adept at juggling the elements and making it all very cohesive and very
musical. Brilliant!"
- Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review May 2013
"His expressive reach is so wide as to encompass everything from
ethno/techno, rock/jazz fusion, classical opera and more, and it all
seems to be effortlessly integrated within his anima and comes out
through different facets of his persona. You could almost see him as a
modern day renaissance man. Most of the music on this new CD is
fast-paced, frenetic, driven by nervous energy and always fleshing out
details like an overclocked cpu. Traces of Fripp, Bruford, Weather
Report, Bryars, Zappa, are vaguely present within the mesh of his music,
but never copied, just simply evoked. And when Gene Pritsker comes up for
air, slows down, and lets his expressive side take over, as in the slow
movement of Electrically Tragic, truly evocative and moving music comes
to the surface."
- Classical Music Sentinel, Jean-Yves Duperron - May 2013
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