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ACROSS THE SKY (ZMCD-104, 2002) $10.00 
The evocative and emotional score for Kevin Keller's orginal dance-theater
piece, Across the Sky brings together cello, bass, piano, and keyboards,
to create classical space music at its absolute finest. |
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1. A Star in a Stoneboat (7:12) |
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2. Six Echoes of Summer (5:04) |
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3. The Blossoms of Change, Part 1 (5:18) |
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4. The Blossoms of Change, Part 2 (5:47) |
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5. Lyra (5:42) |
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6. Moonlake (3:50) |
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7. Across the Sky, Part 1 (5:26) |
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8. Across the Sky, Part 2 (5:09) |
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9. Across the Sky, Part 3 (5:02) |
Composed and produced by Kevin Keller
All music arranged by Kevin Keller,
with Tania Simoncelli and Mark Fassett
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Recorded at Spark, Emeryville,
CA, by Ashley Moore and Mike Bemesderfer, and at The Noom Room, Redwood
City, by Mark Fassett and Kevin Keller
Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Mark Fassett and Kevin Keller
Cover photography by Del Ihle |
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"Across the Sky effectively cross-pollinates the atmospheric
qualities of the best ambient and electronic music with the more structural
qualities of classical music. It is melodic yet textural, lyrical yet kinetic,
and harmonically more complex than most ambient music could ever be.
Images of the natural world subtly weave themselves into Keller's music;
the natural ambiences often recall starry nights melting away to dawn. Keller
plays piano and keyboards, providing the sonic constellations over which
Tania Simoncelli's very spacious cello and Mark Fassett's discreet bass
play.
The entire recording is excellent, but the trio is at their best in the
two extended suites- Across the Sky, and Six Echoes of Summer/The Blossoms
of Change - the former with its effervescent quality, and the latter for
its more dramatic style and rich chromaticism.
Kevin Keller's brilliant new CD Across the Sky evokes many emotions
- and like filaments stretching across the musical landscape, they seemingly
weave their way across the sky." -Steve Davis, Associate Producer/Hearts
of Space |
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