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    Studio // Recordings \\

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    A Heart From Your Shadow

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    “Beharie and Rankin-Parker’s urgent music insists that listeners move beyond the hermetic associations of experimental music. This is an egalitarian collaboration by two musicians who spend more time enhancing other’s music than they do making their own. Death to the artist as auteur: This is music for building and fostering intimate community connections. – Connor Lockie, SLUG Magazine

    “In its own surreal vision and abstract soundtrack, “Paper Tiger” is a reminder that beauty is just within arms’ reach.” – Lars Gotrich, NPR’s All Songs Considered

    “Like being elbowed on a crowded subway by a good-looking stranger, you come away feeling at once jostled and besotted by the results.” – Andy Beta, Pitchfork

    “Chaos and hope collide on A Heart From Your Shadow… it alters moods and styles like the most unpredictable of seasons.” – Andrew Parks, Self-Titled Magazine

    “unpredictable compositions occupy an affecting space between beauty and dread.” – Kelsey J. Waite, AV Club

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    Some Other Fields: New Music for Unaccompanied Cello

    Commissions for Solo Cello by

    Glenn Kotche 

    Jim O'Rourke

    Gene Coleman

    Michael Beharie 

    Release Date(s) TBA

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    BRIDGES

    Solo Cello

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    R-P/P Duo

    Teddy Rankin-Parker: Cello

    Daniel Pearce: Drums

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    Companion Pieces Vol. I

    Companion Pieces Vol. II

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    Broken Trap Ensemble

    The Broken Trap Ensemble explores the group dynamic through the use of strings, reeds, and percussion, employing traditional and experimental techniques to create aural latticework with slyly dissembled origins, each instrument reflecting the timbre and texture of the others as the group burrows into a singular sound. Aram Shelton, Kristina Dutton, Daniel Pearce, and Teddy Rankin-Parker.

     

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    GongLab

    GongLab is a nomadic laboratory dedicated to community ritual and healing. Shu Shubat and Oliver Seay combine practices and teachings of spiritual Wisdom Traditions, Jungian therapeutic modalities, and Mindfulness techniques to create powerfully harmonic community experiences. For the past 4 years GongLab has been the featured guest at the Medicine Buddha Retreat co-lead by Lama Lobsang Palden and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert Thurman at Tibet House’s Menla Mountain Conference Center in upstate New York. Oliver is a critically acclaimed percussionist and composer, a Reiki Master and a Vortex Healing practitioner. Shu is a graduate of the Clinical Training Program in Analytic Psychology at Chicago’s Jung Institute, a vocalist, musician, and the former Artistic Director of the renown Jellyeye Drum Theatre, which she co-founded with Seay in 1992. The instrument most central to GongLab‘s work is a 38″ gong tuned to the frequency of the Earth as it transits around the Sun. This same vibrational signature is attributed to the seed sound OM, thought to be the Primordial Sound, and the very ground of our Being. In their ongoing exploration of holistic, earth based teachings, the Earth Gong serves as an actively resonant metaphor for the encircling reparative energy of the “Great Mother,” – the eternal life force that fuels all life.

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    GongLab is best known for its deeply transporting blend of guided visualization, healing sound, hypnotic percussion, and otherworldly vocals. Each session carefully creates a protected space to disengage from stress and pain, so that that deep relief, bliss, and nurturance of reconnecting with the body’s innate revitalizing energies can be experienced. 

    The evening begins by candlelight with a direction of intention and guided meditation as participants, reclining comfortably on the floor, are ushered into a spiraling cocoon of luminous sound created by gongs, cello, Tibetan bowls, drums, bells and chimes. The shimmering reverberations of the Earth Gong create sound pressure waves that travel through the connective tissues which form one continuous network into all parts and systems of the body down to a cellular level. These multi-tonal frequencies facilitate the movement of “chi” or “prana” in the body and initiate the release of blocked energy that can often manifest as fear, fatigue, depression or illness. As this energetic recalibration takes place, a kind of reorganization of inner resources occurs which can help us transcend the challenging situations in our daily lives and access new templates for being.

    Participants will lay comfortably on the floor for most of the experience. Please bring a mat, blanket, pillow, and any items in support of your deepest clearing and relaxation.

    For More Info On GongLab:

    * What might you expect in a GongLab session?:

    http://www.heartwoodcenter.com/a-review-of-gonglab-by-catherine-mcglynn 

    *Q & A with GongLab’s Shubat:

    http://www.amarayoga.com/blog/2014/9/15/qa-with-gonglabs-shu-shubat

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    Ensemble N_JP

    Composer Gene Coleman formed Ensemble N_JP in 2001 as a vehicle for his on going work with musicians from Japan. Through concert programs, multimedia works and educational projects, the group explores connections between contemporary and traditional forms of art. N_JP is made up of musicians who work with Coleman on a project-by-project basis. It unites outstanding Japanese and US musicians from the traditional, experimental and contemporary classical music communities, along with guest artists from Europe. Ensemble N_JP has performed in a number of important festivals and venues since it’s inception, these include the I-House of Tokyo, Pitt Inn Shinjuku, Kidailack Art House (Tokyo), The House of World Cultures Berlin, The Dresden Society Theater, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Forest College, The Chicago World Music Festival, I-House Philadelphia, The Blurred Edges Festival in Hamburg, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, The Japan Society NY, University of Illinois Urbana, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, MaerzMusik Festival, Warsaw Autumn Festival and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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    The group’s members include:
    *Gene COLEMAN (composer, founder and artistic director)
    *Ko ISHIKAWA (sho {bamboo mouth organ})
    *Naomi SATO (sho)
    *Naoko KIKUCHI (koto)
    *Yoko Reikano KIMURA (koto and shamisen)
    *Toshimaru NAKAMURA (live electronics)
    *Kazuhisa UCHIHASHI (guitar and daxophone)
    *Nick MILLEVOI (e-guitar)
    *Teddy RANKIN-PARKER (cello)
    *Adam VIDIKSIS (conductor and percussion)
    *Hikaru TAMAKI (cello)

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    San Francisco Salon Series

    The San Francisco Salon Series is a multi-media chamber music series founded by Teddy Rankin-Parker, Alex Christie, and Kristina Dutton. The series is dedicated to the cross-pollination of the Bay Area art and music communities by commissioning and presenting world premiers of multi-media chamber music to artistically diverse audiences in salon concerts throughout the Bay Area.

    The San Francisco Salon Series is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and supported by the Heller Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

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