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Kyle Saulnier

Musical polymath Kyle Saulnier fuses the American musical vocabulary with modern orchestral techniques and industrial rock muscle. WNYC has called his music "lush and inventive," and Downbeat Magazine referred to it as “a Great American Songbook of another order." His compositions and arrangements have been performed nationally and internationally by the Awakening Orchestra, the Metropole Orkest, Jon Irabagon, the Westerlies, WeatherVest, Osso String Quartet, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Saturn People’s Sound Collective, TURNmusic, and the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra. Kyle has also scored for National Geographic Television and orchestrated for the independent film Nude Tuesday.

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Vermont musical polymath Kyle Saulnier fuses the American musical vocabulary with modern orchestral techniques and industrial rock muscle. His music is "lush and inventive” (WNYC); “a Great American Songbook of another order” (Downbeat Magazine.) His genre-bending compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations have been performed by the Metropole Orkest, the Westerlies, Osso String Quartet, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Salina Symphony, and many more.

Building on his strong body of work as leader of the widely celebrated Awakening Orchestra, Saulnier returns

Jonesville

By Moppa Elliott

Label: Hot Cups
Released: 2024
Track listing: Choice; Delaware Water Gap; Miami Drag; Unity; Cedar Run; Stack of Dollars; Jonesville.

Choice

May 3, 2024

Album: Jonesville
By Moppa Elliott
Label: Hot Cups
Released: 2024
Duration: 2:39

Acceleration Due To Gravity: Jonesville

by Pierre Giroux
February 16, 2024

Bassist, composer and arranger Moppa Elliott's uniquely-titled nonet Acceleration Due To Gravity presents Jonesville a gravity- defying jazz odyssey. It pays a captivating homage to influential bassist Sam Jones by weaving a sonic tapestry which transcends the boundaries of conventional jazz. In this brief seven-track, twenty-one-minute outing, four compositions are by Elliott, with the remainder being ...

Moppa Elliott's Acceleration Due To Gravity: Jonesville

by Mike Jurkovic
February 11, 2024

Whatever 'script renegade bassist/composer Moppa Elliot takes on a daily basis, he should be made to share with the rest of the world. Whatever that tonic, whatever that pill, whatever that gumbo scented elixir is, let us have it now. Elliot may not want to open up his private stash to the public, but ...

Show You My Love - Single

By Natalie Hamilton

Label: Natalie Hamilton
Released: 2022

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.

The Awakening Orchestra: Volume II: To Call Her to a Higher Plan

by Angelo Leonardi
November 9, 2020

Tra gli orchestratori e bandleader emersi di recente Kyle Saulnier è uno dei più interessanti. Il suo esordio con l'Awakening Orchestra nel doppio This Is Not the Answer (Innova 2014) ha rappresentato una sorprendente rivelazione per padronanza di scrittura e spregiudicata sintesi di elementi diversi, inclusi il free e il rock. Con un taglio ...

Awakening Orchestra

The Awakening Orchestra, led by composer Kyle Saulnier, is a large ensemble (roughly two dozen players) that works on a broad canvas. Their new digital-only album, Volume II: To Call Her to a Higher Plain, which is available from the Biophilia label, runs just shy of two hours and includes two complete symphonies, as well as interpretations of tunes by Bill Frisell, Molly Drake (folk singer Nick Drake‘s mother), and Nine Inch Nails, as well as a choral piece by Eric Whitaker that’s been rearranged as a brass chorale.