We wrap our journey to Grammy Gold with our final submission for this amazing year of artistic excellence! And WHAT a way to wrap up!
We have previously shared other tracks from our extraordinary Symmetria Pario Creation project with Pekka Kuusisto - Musician on violin and Joonas Ahonen - Pianist. The pieces specially commissioned for this album featured an incredible line-up of contemporary composers, expressing themselves in wildly diverse styles, from steely modernism to an almost naive nostalgia. Among the composers featured was one incredible woman better known to her many fans as a Jazz Virtuoso, but as those who know ANYTHING about Yuko Mabuchi can tell you, she is a consummate artist at home in playing Mozart as she is playing Miles!
If you are a voting member, please feel free to reach out to us. We’re happy to provide full HiRes downloads and booklets, but even if you’re NOT involved with the Grammys, this is a terrific time to discover, explore, or revisit some of the great Yarlung albums of the past year!
Please enjoy – and SHARE – this little snippet for Yuko’s Grammy Submission for Best Instrumental Composition, The Evolution of the One.
Among the All-Star submissions that Yarlung has made to this year’s Grammys is a powerful suite for violin and piano by Clarice Assad, titled Symmetries submitted for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Clarice, whose stepmother Professor Angela Olinto teaches quantum physics at the University of Chicago, opens our album with Symmetries. Clarice’s work expresses her vision of the earliest fractions of moments after the Big Bang in six through-composed movements, Spin, Inertia, Energy, Space, Time and Momentum. As when listening to this music by all the great composers Pekka and Joonas recorded on this album, one does not need to know anything about science or even the inspiration behind these works to enjoy this music. Clarice’s work proves this instantly upon hearing.
Thanks to the generosity of executive producer Russell Ward who generously underwrote Yarlung’s six new commissions, performed and recorded so eloquently by Pekka Kuusisto - Musician on violin and Joonas Ahonen - Pianist on our album Symmetria Pario Creation. Featuring the music of Clarice Assad, Yuko Mabuchi, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Hannah Kendall, Ricky Kej, Cecilia Damstrom, Harrison Birtwistle and Missy Mazzoli explores the “beginnings of things,” the origin of the universe as expressed in music, and various creation stories from different cultures around the world. But when listening to this album one does not need to know anything about science or even the inspiration behind these works to enjoy the music.
If you are a voting member, please feel free to reach out to us. We’re happy to provide full HiRes downloads and booklets, but even if you’re NOT involved with the Grammys, this is a terrific time to discover, explore, or revisit some of the great Yarlung albums of the past year!
One of the most memorable projects of the past year was the opportunity to work with Aditya Prakash. Nearly FOUR YEARS in the making, ‘Karnatik Roots’ was a dream project for all concerned, presenting the passionate intensity of traditional Karnatik vocal music in its alloyed, pristine beauty.
Needless to say, with Grammy season is upon us and all of us at Yarlung are so incredibly proud that Aditya’s album was accepted for submission by the Academy as a ‘Best Global Music Album’ contender.
If you are a voting member, please feel free to reach out to us. We’re happy to provide full HiRes downloads and booklets, but even if you’re NOT involved with the Grammys, this is a terrific time to discover, explore or revisit some of the great Yarlung albums of the past year!
#karnaticmusic #ADITYAPRAKASH #worldmusic #globalmusic #Grammys #FYC
FYC: Symmetria Pario: Creation - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
The past year at Yarlung has been one of our busiest and most artistically varied and successful, and so with Grammy season upon us and all of us, it gives us tremendous pleasure to share our special FYC offerings!
Thanks to the generosity of executive producer Russell Ward who generously underwrote Yarlung’s six new commissions, performed and recorded so eloquently by Pekka Kuusisto - Musician on violin and Joonas Ahonen - Pianist on our album Symmetria Pario Creation. Featuring the music of Clarice Assad, Yuko Mabuchi, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Hannah Kendall, Ricky Kej, Cecilia Damstrom, Harrison Birtwistle and Missy Mazzoli explores the “beginnings of things,” the origin of the universe as expressed in music, and various creation stories from different cultures around the world. But when listening to this album one does not need to know anything about science or even the inspiration behind these works to enjoy the music.
If you are a voting member, please feel free to reach out to us. We’re happy to provide full HiRes downloads and booklets, but even if you’re NOT involved with the Grammys, this is a terrific time to discover, explore, or revisit some of the great Yarlung albums of the past year!
From KÛN - Seven Sufi Vignettes by Mehmet Salikol
It was such an amazing – and inspiring – experience working with Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol! The man lives and breathes music as a celebration of life and in the months since we recorded his music, it’s been one triumph after another for him, including his new album, Turkish Hipster being a featured new release on the Apple Music Jazz page!
Mehmet’s piece takes inspiration from the mystical Islamic Sufi tradition describing the creation of the universe in seven days. Mehmet is a successful contemporary composer and jazz musician but focuses his scholarship and research on Ottoman court music at the New England Conservatory. Mehmet was happy to imagine a number of great Sufi dervishes pondering our origins, offering us his musical take on specific passages in the Koran as well as on Sufi philosophy. Indeed it gives me great pleasure to pretend that a great Sufi mystic like Rumi speaks through Mehmet, sharing Rumi’s joy and insight into recent developments in our ever-evolving understanding of physics and quantum theory. Mehmet’s seven movements are NUR (Light), KÛN (Be), EFLÂK (Galaxies), ANÂSIR (Elements), MEVÂLÎD (Kingdoms), iNSAN (Man), and finally HÛ (He)
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We hope you enjoy this little music video featuring Pekka Kuusisto - Musician and Joonas Ahonen - Pianist performing Mehmet’s passionate music.
Clarice Assad: Symmetries
We have been so fortunate to work with the amazing Clarice Assad on TWO projects now! The wonderful little suite called Symmetries that she wrote for Pekka Kuusisto - Musician and Joonas Ahonen - Pianist for the album Symmetria Pario – Creation. The work is in six through-composed movements, Spin, Inertia, Energy, Space, Time and Momentum. We also saw this as a special tribute to Clarice's stepmom, Professor Angela Olinto who teaches quantum physics at the University of Chicago.
Enjoy and stay tuned for our next project with the amazing Ms. Assad!
It's Friday and time to get your Hadron Particle Accelerator On!
Enjoy a snippet from @Yuko Mabuchi's Evolution of the One from Pekka Kuusisto/Joonas Ahonen: Symmetria Pario – Creation.
Need a little jumpstart to get motivated after the holidays? Well, our friend Peter PT Jacobson has just the trick to get that blood circulating to all your essential chakras!
Enjoy his short reduction in a fast jhala style to wake the senses, raga Yaman!
#cello #Raga #indianclassicalmusic
Congratulations to Paul Livingstone and Peter PT Jacobson on a brilliant performance at Chloe & Ken's beautiful spot over Eagle Rock last night. They set a serene mood moving into the holidays.
Here's a little video from earlier this fall recorded at Holy Volcano Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
During the pandemic, composer Koben Sprenger sought refuge in the writings of the philosophical emperor Marcus Aurelius, his own time foreshadowing many of the challenges and calamities of our own! He decided to write an album around the famous Meditations.
The full album will be released in a few weeks and we are ALL so excited!
Female voice: Dawn Foster
Ma’at:
Griet Wiame: Violin 1
Charlotte Verdoodt: Violin 2
Esther Coorevits: Viola
Jolien Deley: Cello
#marcusaurelius #meditations #meditationsforstringquartet #classicalmusic #neoclassical #stringsquartet #kobensprengers
We Tune Because We Care
After months of preparation - and finely tuning of hundreds of strings - the glorious day has finally arrived!
CONGRATULATIONS to Paul Livingstone and Peter PT Jacobson and the entire hard-working Yarlung and Naxos of America support teams for making this release a success!
Thoughts on Recording Sangam
Coming this Friday, the DEBUT album from SANGAM!
Together now for almost ten years, cellist Peter PT Jacobson and sitarist Paul Livingstone have cultivated transcendent, transglobal chamber music. Building upon the modes and rhythms of classical Hindustani music, Peter and Paul weave their experiences in jazz, free improvisation, and western classical music traditions to create an exciting tapestry of sounds.
Sunday Sangam BTS
Ready for a little Sunday Sangam?
Sharing a post from a couple years ago of Paul Livingstone on sitar and Peter PT Jacobson on cello soaring through the final bars of a rousing raga. Check out their debut album, #Sangam coming out in September!
#classical #raga #music #sitar #cello #raag #sangamsitarandcello
Setting up for Aditya Prakash Karnatic Concert
This is the first ever Karnatik concert at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Last year the Aditya Prakash Ensemble performed there - it was very special. We are THRILLED to be able to record this incredible concert of authentic Karnatic music!
So happy to see Aditya perform live with Kamalakiran Vinjamuri - Carnatic Violinist on violin, Rajna Swaminathan on mridangam and Radhika Bhuckory on tambura.
Coming September 2022!
Paul Livingstone on sitar and Peter PT Jacobson on cello take inspiration from the Hindustani musical tradition, and from Paul’s teacher and mentor Ravi Shankar who collaborated so eloquently with Yehudi Menuhin on violin and helped to popularize Hindustani music in the West. Pete and Paul also draw inspiration from American jazz improvisation. Sangam, in Hindi, means many things, including “confluence,” or the blending of two people, ideas or traditions into something fresh and new, something that their first album for Yarlung proves beyond a doubt!
Stay Strong with Sangam!
Get Ready for Sangam!
Get ready for Sangam!
Featuring Paul Livingstone on sitar and Peter PT Jacobson on cello, both true musical globetrotters, have honed their skills in creative partnerships and exchanges with musicians around the world. Here is a sample of the extraordinary chemistry that exists between these two! Even tuning their instruments becomes the source for some meltingly beautiful improvisations!
Soon it will be Sangam!
Sangam, is Paul Livingstone on sitar and Peter PT Jacobson on cello, both are true musical globetrotters who've honed their skills in creative partnership and exchanges with musicians around the world! Here is a sample of the extraordinary chemistry that exists between these two! Even tuning their instruments becomes the source for some meltingly beautiful improvisations!
Yuko at the 61st Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration
Michelle Mayne-Graves describes the new Lifeline album honoring Harriet Tubman
YMT @ Segerstrom Center for the Arts (PROMO)