Download “02′-15′” (mp3)
from “Stockhausen - MANTRA”
by Karlheinz Stockhausen Label: New Albion Records
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Download “Reminds Me” (mp3)
from “Movement, Turns & Switches”
by The Oliver Lake String Project Label: Passin Thru
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from “Cloth”
by Oliver Lake Big Band Label: Passin Thru
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Download “Breathe Of Life” (mp3)
from “Matador Of 1st & 1st”
by Oliver Lake Label: Passin Thru
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Heavy Spirits (Arista Freedom 1008)
Oliver Lake / alto saxophone, Olu Dara / trumpet, Donald Smith / piano, Stafford James / bass, Victor Lewis / drums. Quintet (Side 1)
Oliver Lake / alto saxophone, Al P. Jones. Steven Peisch, C. Panton / violins. With Violin Trio: (First 3 tracks, Side 2)
Oliver Lake / alto saxophone, Joseph Bowie / trombone, Charles Bobo Shaw / drums. Trio (Last track, Side 2)
Tunes: “While Pushing Down Turn,” “0wshet,” “Heavy Spirits” / “Movement Equals Creation,” “Altoviolin,” “Intensity,” “Lonely Blacks,” “Rocket.”
Recorded: January 31 and February 3, 1975.
Oliver Lake, like Anthony Braxton, seems interested in exploring that middle ground between composition and improvisation. Though Braxton, I expect, is much more the structuralist than Lake, it’s obvious that the dramatic contours of the music here have been more or less set up in advance. This is especially evident on the violin trio tracks and on “Pushing” and, to a lesser extent, on “Owshet,” “Spirits,” and “Rocket.” Even the solo piece, “Lonely Blacks,” composed by Julius Hemphill, is in the first instance a composition rather than simply a “line” or a starting point for an improvisation.
Daniel is a composer and digital media artist who was born in the Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney. He studied composition as well as music education at a number of universities including the University of New England, University of Griffith, University of Wollongong and the Australian Institute of Music and has a BMus (Hons), MMus and a MA(R)…
Daniel began lecturing in composition at the Australian Institute of Music in 1999, then, in 2004 as a lecturer in composition in the faculty of creative arts at the University of Wollongong…Further to his preoccupation with acousmatic, electroacoustic and audiovisual works, Daniel has written, performed and produced music in a variety of styles including music for film and television, music for jazz and rock ensembles, and electronic music…
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from “In Deep End Dance”
by Julian Priester Label: Conduit Records
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