Results for "Frank Macchia"

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Balinese Butterflies by Frank Macchia & Brock Avery

Featuring the music of Frank Macchia
Duration: 3:21
January 27, 2020

Rhythm Abstraction: Azure is the first volume of new compositions created as a follow up to 2018’s release Rhythm Kaleidoscope. As with that release, Brock Avery improvised drum and percussion solos. Frank Macchia then composed music for woodwinds and orchestra to Brock’s creations. Azure is the first of three extended play albums of 6-7 compositions which will be released starting in January and followed up in April and July. In Azure we have a created a group of pieces that continue our quest for honoring the art of improvisation with a “stream-of-consciousness” sense of composition, where Frank reacted to whatever Brock created with his drum improvisations and continued to pursue the use of tone rows and motifs to create a music journey that ebbs and flows with the rhythm and takes the listener on a journey through rhythm and sound.

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The Making of Rhythm Kaleidoscope

Featuring the music of Frank Macchia
Duration: 39:37
January 21, 2019

Frank Macchia and Brock Avery discuss the making of the new music album "Rhythm Kaleidoscope", where Brock created drum solo improvisations that Frank then composed "stream of consciousness" music for large ensembles. Interviewed by Eric Jensen, who also played guitar on the project.

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Frank Macchia: Rhythm Kaleidoscope

by Troy Dostert
January 18, 2019

With a host of wide-ranging work not only as a musician but also as a producer and arranger for television and film projects, Frank Macchia has never been one to rest on his laurels. Even if you're not familiar with his recordings, chances are you've heard at least one of his many film orchestrations: from The ...

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Rhythm Kaleidoscope

By Frank Macchia

Label: Cacophony
Released: 2018
Track listing: Rhythm Kaleidoscope; Psychedelic Drum Machine; Introspective Delusions Suite; Slinky; Inside the Mind of M. De Sade; Drunken Bar Brawl; Outer Spaces 1: Oumuamua, The Messenger; Outer Spaces 2: Dark Energy; Outer Spaces 3: LightSpeed; Shimmering Vibrations; Piglets Bouncing on a Trampoline; Abduction; It’s Fake News (No, It’s Not!).

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Piglets Bouncing On A Trampoline

November 24, 2018

Album: Rhythm Kaleidoscope
By Frank Macchia
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2018
Duration: 02:41

Musician

Frank Macchia

Born: October 12, 1958

Born and raised in San Francisco, CA., Frank started on the clarinet at the age of ten years old. Soon afterward he began studies on bassoon, saxophone and flute. By the age of fourteen he began studying composition, writing jazz and classical pieces for his high school band and orchestra and for jazz ensembles that rehearsed at the local union hall, including trumpeter Mike Vax's Big Band. In 1975-76 Frank wrote jazz/classical hybrid works that were performed by the San Francisco Symphony and local professional jazz musicians at the Summer Music Workshop Programs, and he composed and conducted an orchestral overture for his high school graduation ceremony

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I'm So Damn Mad!

January 1, 2014

Album: Grease Mechanix
By Frank Macchia
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2013
Duration: 04:27

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Grease Mechanix

By Frank Macchia

Label: Cacophony
Released: 2013
Track listing: Buckin’ Bronco; Zombies Ate My Grandma; Chicken Neck; Shhhh!; Bad Juju; Fat Cat; Squiggles; I’m So Damn Mad!; Bucket o’ Tears; Atonal Dance Party; Sweet Patootie Waltz; Bulldog; Fatback Bubblebath.

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Frank Macchia: Grease Mechanix

by Jack Bowers
December 18, 2013

One thing that must be said about Frank Macchia (well, two things, actually)--he's a wild and crazy composer / bandleader whose satchel is always overflowing with splendid musical surprises. On his new album, Grease Mechanix, Macchia goes funky in a New Orleans brass band manner, employing a seventeen-piece ensemble comprised of some of the best sidemen ...

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Zombies Ate My Grandma!

Featuring the music of Frank Macchia
Duration: 06:00
November 3, 2013

The first single from Frank Macchia's Grease Mechanix CD (to be released Jan. 7, 2014)