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orchestramaxfieldparrish

...the mirror of heaven and earth...

About Me


'The Silent Breath Of Emptiness' is now available through Faith Strange Recordings


"...put simply, a beautiful recording." - textura.org
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"The Silent Breath Of Emptiness" is also available as downloads from:

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'Tears' remaster available March 4, 2008


Also now available, 2002's 'Tears' has been reissued in a second edition and has now been remastered in 24 bit 128k audiophile fidelity. This new design is professionally printed & duplicated and comes in a 4 color fold out gatefold cardboard sleeve with archival rice paper cd sleeve & printed vellum overwrap. Very cool indeed.
...the saddened birds sobbed loud for Orpheus; all wept: the multitude of beasts, stones, and trees, all those who came to hear the songs he sang, yes, even the charmed trees dropped all their leaves as if they shaved their hair. Then it was said the rivers swelled with tears, that dryads, naiads draped their nakedness in black and shook their hair wild for the world to see. Scattered in blood, and tossed in bloody grasses, dismembered arm from shoulder, knee from thigh, the poet's body lay, yet by a miracle the River Hebrus caught head and lyre as they dropped and carried them midcurrent down the stream. The lyre twanged sad strains...


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Tears is also available as downloads from:

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/5/2006
Band Website: faithstrange.com
Influences: The Hope Blister
David Sylvian
Joseph Schwantner
Stuart Dempster
Fripp & Eno
Ora
Mirror
Russell Mills
Dominic Frontiere
Giya Kancheli
Henryk Gorecki
Brian Eno
Arvo Part
Bill Nelson
Nico
John Cale
Jade Warrior
Dead Can Dance
vidnaObmana
Peter Hammill
Bill Laswell
Krzysztof Penderecki
Gavin Bryars
The Hafler Trio
Hector Zazou
Fred Frith
Béla Bartók
György Ligeti
Eberhard Weber
Steve Reich
Morton Feldman
Terje Rypdal
Durutti Column
all things Martin Hannett
all things Ivo Watts-Russell

Sounds Like: Twilight, Autumn, Winter, memories forgotten. A time before.

CURRENT MOON moon info:
Record Label: Faith Strange Recordings, ct-collective, Textura
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Two new ct-collective releases due August / September

There will be two new ct-collective editions with Fazio works released at Summer's end:ct-zodiacct-generativeFor Zodiac, a new piece called 'Pisces' will be included and incorporates field recordings,...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:54:00 PST

Heavy Rotation - July 2008 - On the stereo...

MF's Play List:Undark - Pearl + Umbra (1997)Coil - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) (2001)Naked City - Absinthe (1993)Keith Berry - The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish (2005)Various - Spire Live in Geneva Cat...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:22:00 PST

Reviews: The Silent Breath Of Emptiness

from Tokafi:CD Feature/ orchestramaxfieldparrish: "The Silent Breath Of Emptiness"Heartbreaking charme: Interrelated tones conglomerating into thick tonal tufts.What is it about the stars? Poets are c...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Fri, 02 May 2008 02:22:00 PST

textura album due out this summer

The 'orchestra' has been commissioned to produce a new work based on 'Kubla Khan (or A Vision In A Dream. A Fragment) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797) to be released on the first of a series of album...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Sat, 10 May 2008 01:49:00 PST

Tears remaster available March 4, 2008

Available March 4 and only through Faith Strange, 2002's 'Tears' has been reissued in a second edition and remastered in 24 bit 128k audiophile fidelity. This new design has been professionally printe...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:19:00 PST

Reviews of Tears:

From Aural Innovations 31 June 2005:orchestramaxfieldparrish - TearsDeeply influenced by the 80s academy of ambient guitarists (Bill Nelson, Robert Fripp, Michael Rother, Durutti Column), Mike Fazio&r...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:47:00 PST

Released: 01 Jan 08 - The Silent Breath Of Emptiness

orchestramaxfieldparrish - The Silent Breath Of Emptiness(fs7) - Limited edition full color digipak with obi strip.The first new full length orchestramaxfieldparrish work since 2002's highly revered '...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:17:00 PST

Recent release - Caligari: An Exquisite Corpse

just released through CT-Collective.com is the dvd production Caligari: An Exquisite Corpse. Eleven composers collaborated in Exquisite Corpse fashion to produce two brand new soundtracks for the Germ...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:08:00 PST

Recent release - ct great speeches compilation

recently released through ct-collective.com and painstakingly coordinated by Fabio Anile is CT - Great Speeches. The aim of this project was to compose music to "furnish" a famous speech. A "great spe...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:27:00 PST

Works in progress - Crossing Of Shadows

scheduled to be released through Faith Strange late 2008, is a limited and numbered edition of the Crossing Of Shadows dark collection of lamentations from orchestramaxfieldparrish completed 2 years a...
Posted by orchestramaxfieldparrish on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:24:00 PST