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Awakening Orchestra

Although it’s right there in the name, it’s not entirely clear whether composer/leader Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra is in fact an orchestra, a big band or something entirely and wildly different. Encompassing broad swaths of musical style in both original and recontextualized and re-imagined compositions, the Awakening Orchestra delves deep into traditions from classical to jazz to indie rock on their debut album, volume I: this is not the answer. Interspersing original work - like the intricate, four-part, title-track symphony - with often radical interpretations of work by Samuel Barber, Radiohead, Johannes Brahms and Low, volume I: this is not the answer crafts a powerful mix of written and improvised material

Volume II: To Call Her to a Higher Plan

By Awakening Orchestra

Label: Biophilia Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Prelude & Fanfare: the Patriot; Burn; Throughout; I Can See My Country from Here (Free Labor, Free Land, Free Men / Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité / Ethos, Pathos, Logos / Epilogue); I Remember; To Call Her to a Higher Plain (On the Technicians of Power / First Cadenza / On the Acceptance of Things That We Can Not Change / Second Cadenza / On the Changing of Things That We Can Not Accept); The (desc/diss)ent; Lux Aurumque.

Atticus Live!

By Awakening Orchestra

Label: Biophilia Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Looking Glass; Build!; The Adventures of Dirt McGillicuddy; Atticus; The Robert Frost Experiment; Quiet; Snowflake; Turbulence Is Bliss; The Pasture (You Come Too).

Interlude: Atticus Live!-The Music of Jesse Lewis

By Awakening Orchestra

Label: Biophilia Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Looking Glass; Build; The Adventures of Dirt McGillicuddy; Atticus; The Robert Frost Experiment; Quiet; Snowflake; Turbulence; The Pasture (You Come Too).

Things We Like: Novembre 2016

by AAJ Staff
December 5, 2016

By VIC ALBANI Se state cercando un grande regalo musicale per il prossimo natale, ecco uno dei più dischi più belli e interessanti degli ultimi anni, sopra ogni etichetta, sopra ogni genere. Before the Dawn, raccoglie lo straordinario ritorno sulle scene “una tantum" di sua maestà Kate Bush, vale a dire la ...

Awakening Orchestra: Atticus Live!

by Jack Bowers
December 2, 2016

Sorry. If this is the direction in which big-band jazz is moving, please apply the brakes as quickly and gently as possible so that this listener may exit the train. When it comes to big bands, some members of an older generation cling to standards that must always be upheld. Not swinging is from time to ...

Awakening Orchestra: Interlude: Atticus Live!-The Music of Jesse Lewis

by Karl Ackermann
November 29, 2016

On the heals of the excellent debut This Is Not the Answer, Vol 1 (Innova Recordings, 2014), composer/conductor Kyle Saulnier leaves the writing credits to featured guitarist/composer Jesse Lewis on Interlude: Atticus Live!-The Music of Jesse Lewis. Not a regular member of Saulnier's Awakening Orchestra, Lewis had recorded each of these tracks on his similarly named ...

Vol. 1: This Is Not the Answer

By Awakening Orchestra

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Disc 1: Part I: Of Conflict and Resolution. Prelude & Fanfare, "The Prophet"; Myxomatosis, "Judge, Jury and Executioner"; The Words, They Fail to Come; Alone Together; Protest; You Still Believe in Me. Disc 2: Part II: This is Not the Answer. 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Major; This Is Not the Answer: I. Overture and Evolution; This Is Not the Answer: II. Empty Promises; This Is Not the Answer: III. This Is Not the Answer; This Is Not the Answer: IV. The Hypocrite and the Hope; Murderer; Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo.

Awakening Orchestra: Vol. 1: This Is Not the Answer

by Angelo Leonardi
October 6, 2014

Questo debutto di Kyle Saulnier è uno dei lavori orchestrali più ricchi e appassionanti degli ultimi anni, paragonabile per fantasia e freschezza a Infernal Machine, il disco d'esordio di Darcy James Argue. Compositore e polistrumentista, Saulnier è nato nel Connecticut, ha studiato composizione alla Berklee e alla Manhattan School of Music e risiede da ...

I nuovi orchestratori - 2: Kyle Saulnier - Rob Mazurek

by Angelo Leonardi
October 6, 2014

Parliamo ancora di orchestre e arrangiatori [per leggere la prima puntata di questo approfondimento -clicca qui. Tralasciando per il momento di considerare i contributi più innovativi della scena europea (tra cui spiccano la Vienna Art Orchestra e l'Italian Instabile Orchestra) dopo la stagione del Free la ricerca d'avanguardia statunitense non si è fermata. Purtroppo ...