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  Sunrise Vol. 1

  Pt. VIJAY RAGHAV RAO : SUNRISE (vol 1) This album presents three selections typifying the quintessentially symbiotic relationship between the genius of Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao and his art form. All three performances are rooted in the natural metaphor of a rising sun. 1. Miyan Ki Todi In the canon of the classical music of India there is no Raaga more traditional than Miyan Ki Todi, the creation of which is originally attributed to the doyen of Indian composers Miyan Tansen (1506-1585). In this performance Panditji meticulously preserves Tansen's prescribed tonal structure while delineating four original, modern compositions intermingled seamlessly in a single movement of varying rhythmic meters. True to Panditji's reputation, ancient tradition finds new voice for a future worthy of it's roots. Alaap, Chota Khayal (Jhap Taal, 10 beats/cycle), Saadra (Jhap Taal, 10 beats/cycle), Drut (Teen Taal,16 beats/cycle) Tabla Accompanist: Pt. Giridhar Prasad Jaipurwalle Swarmandal: Pt. Anant Bhonsle 2. Bairagi Bhairav In this performance, Panditji presents a deeply introspective interpretation of a rare melodic scale. Pensive and sonorous, the original composition mines the intricacies of the lower octaves to delineate a mood of spiritual enlightenment. Upon contemplation the attuned ear can fathom oneness of sound, beauty and spirit. Bada Khayal (Vilambit, Ek Taal, 12 beats/cycle) Tabla Accompanist: Pt. Mahadev Indorkar 3. Bhoopkali This selection is a live encore performance of one of Panditji's own contributions to the canon of Indian classical music. Literally meaning 'flower born of light / sunflower', the composition is a fine example of Panditji's impressionistic muse. The music sparkles with innocent vivacity and elegant wisdom. Intellectual music, the composition seems to say, can entertain. Drut (Ek Taal, 12 beats/cycle) Flute Accompanist: Dr. Vijay Vardhan Elchuri Tabla: Sanjay Kumar 'No substitute for his flute...the complete master' - The Hindustan Times "A volcano of creative expression' - The Indian Express "His flute is an unending fountain of myriad melodies, always fresh, always original." - The Patriot 'Creator of beautiful, wide and ethereal canvasses.' - The Deccan Herald '20th Century Renaissance Genius.' - The Cleveland Plain Dealer 'Intensely romantic...lyrical...extremely serene.' - Rave Magazine "Innovator in the world of music.. a versatile genius." -The JS Magazine "Seeker of truth through music. One of the greatest flautists of this world" - The Times of India "Reflective music, refreshing and genuinely haunting" - The New York Times "Awe inspiring. Freshness and finesse in every note. Marked by gay abandon, innovativeness and imaginative vitality." - The Statesman "Suave tonicity, lyricism, rich melodic beauty" - The Listening Post Pt. VIJAY RAGHAV RAO : SUNRISE (vol 1) Originally recorded live in Bombay, India and Springfield, VA, USA Digitally re-mastered at The Red & Green Company, VA, USA Special thanks to Smt. Lakshmi V. Rao CD version of SUNRISE (vol. 1) manufactured by Disc Makers, Philadelphia, PA, USA Sound Executive Dr. Vijay Vardhan Elchuri Executive Producer Sanjay Kumar © (p) 2013 by Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao & family "Rays from sunrise drew forth buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings." - Thomas Hardy From The Red & Green Company.

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  And She Says Gold

  Durch seine Vielseitigkeit und die große Bandbreite von Melodic Rock bis zum Power Metal dürfte das Album einer großen Käuferschicht gefallen. Wer Bands wie Sonata Arctica, Edguy oder Zonata bevorzugt, liegt hier richtig. 6/7 - Hard Harder Heavy 9/10 - Break Out TRACKS: 1. Combined The Souls 2. Descending 3. Noiseless Bullet 4. Squeals Of War 5. Frozen To Be Feat. LaGaylia Frazier 6. Under A Spell 7. Untitled X 8. I Am Lost To You 9. Shifting Gears 10. Love Has Come 11. The Broken Heart 12. Running Free 13. Me And Desire 14. Beat It [European CD bonus track]

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  There Was a Child Went Forth: Songs of Nils

  There was a Child went Forth - in thirty-nine lines, the poet takes us from evocations of a child's early experiences of nature, town and family life to the precipice, both dreadful and ecstatic, of existential speculation. Three American Songs - Thoreau is, relative to the fame of his prose, little known as a poet, but he has a distinctive voice, short breathed with insistent rhyme schemes. The reiteration of the opening line of O Nature is like a mantra. A Noiseless Patient Spider places the voice in a web of piano figuration. The Shangri-La quality of Rumors from an Aeolian Harp is suggested by the hypnotic six for four rhythm in the piano. March, Hymn and Waltz frames Joyce's poems, "From dewey dreams, my soul arise" (hymn) and "The twilight turns from amethyst" (waltz) with a piano prelude, (march) and postlude. The set evokes parlor music. Czeslaw Milosz wrote these two poems during the height of WWII in Warsaw. In the first one, A Song On the End of the World, the apocalypse is imagined in the penultimate line, which is then repeated. The simplicity of the music in the opening of Recovery is as though one emerged from a shelter to find the world still existent. The five songs of Mother Leads Us are settings of Shaker melodies found in Edward Deming Andrew's The Gift to be Simple. In general I have not altered the melodies with the exception of the remarkable "spelling-out" tune Love and Blessing, which is subject to numerous octave displacements. Vocalise was written for my parents, both musicians, for their thirty-sixth wedding anniversary. They read through it, mom singing and dad playing, after a church service in 1979, the only time I heard it until this recording. Five Songs is a collection, not a cycle, though there are threads of connection between the poems. They are all from the 19th C, when poetry was commonly read, and they all, in their own way, are "bright" poems. The tragic note is not sounded. A Prayer for my Daughter is not only Yeats' meditation on his young child's future but also on his failed courtship of Maude Gonne. This generates a shift in tone so radical that for ten years I could never find a way to continue with the last four stanzas. So I left the poem "rooted in one dear perpetual place." - Nils Vigeland Canadian soprano, Delea Shand, is dedicated to performing and promoting new music. She produces Opera on Tap's contemporary music ensemble, New Brew, and has collaborated, curated, and performed with: Orchestra 2001, Anti-Social Music, Quince Vocal Ensemble, Color Field Ensemble, Tactus, and Manhattan School of Music's Symphony Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble. Delea has performed at several new music venues in New York City including: Symphony Space, Issue Project Room, Galapagos Art Space, City Winery, Gershwin Hotel, Cornelia Street Cafe, Webster Hall, The Tank, and Barbes. She is a proud Banglewood alumni, having been a fellow at the Bang on a Can summer festival at Mass MoCA. A dedicated music educator, Delea teaches private lessons and was a teaching artist with the Metropolitan Opera Guild. She holds a Master's Degree in Contemporary Performance from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Lucy Shelton. Nils Vigeland was born in Buffalo, NY in 1950. He studied composition with David Del Tredici and Lukas Foss at Harvard College and Morton Feldman at The University at Buffalo. Since 1978 he has been active in New York City as composer and pianist. He taught at Manhattan School of Music for thirty years, retiring as Chair of the Composition Department in 2013. His music is available on Mode, Lovely Music, Focus, Naxos and Ravello CD releases. With Eberhard Blum and Jan Williams he has recorded the complete works of Morton Feldman for flute, percussion and piano for HAT ART.

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  Sunrise Vol. 2

  SUNRISE (Vol. 2) presents three live recordings of performances in the morning by Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao, symbolizing the ascending vitality of modernism in traditional Indian classical music. Like SUNRISE (Vol. 1), this album of exceptional artistic brilliance features music rooted in the natural metaphor of a rising sun. "Makes the notes dance and quiver in an enchanting manner, spouting mellifluous melody in a variety of tonal nuances, embellishing delectable compositions notable for a refined sense of design..." - The Times of India Typifying the genius of the legendary flautist-composer, the music in this album represents innovation that imparts freshness in melodic composition and elegance in execution to traditional musical structures, enhancing their appeal whilst maintaining the dignity of classicism. AHIR BHAIRAV In this live, recorded performance Panditji interprets in his inimitable style a variation of the oldest known scale in traditional Indian classical music. The rendering summons ethereal emotion that blends a deeply felt spiritualism with romantic visions of a sun rising over a rustic country scene, in which Lord Krishna - in the guise of a cowherd playing the flute - tends to his flock of cattle, preparing them for the day ahead. In the hands of the finest flautist-composer of our time the weight of tradition mingles seamlessly with rusticity and heart-felt devotion. Tabla: Pt. Mahadev Indorkar BHOPAL TODI In this live recording Panditji interprets a rare variation of one of the most popular scales in Indian classical music. The performance emotes compassion and heartfelt empathy with those who suffer physically, intellectually or spiritually. The elegiac composition leans on unadorned musical notes - shorn of technical dazzle - to highlight, without obtrusion, the unassailable dignity of the spirit amidst what chaos there may have been. In the process, classicism finds new meaning appropriate for the modern condition. Tabla: Pt. Mahadev Indorkar HINDOL In the spirit of this album's character highlighting Panditji's devotion to Lord Krishna, this selection features his interpretation of a Raga traditionally associated with an image of Lord Krishna reclining on a swing, surrounded by his devotees. The atmosphere is suffused by playful reverence. An early morning's ambience burnishes the joie de vivre. Panditji's composition is delectable in that the melody easily straddles the subtle ground between elegance and intellectualism, even as it uses rhythm and tempo to present an objective, physical picture of a divine swing in perpetual motion. That the enchanting melody is essentially based on four musical notes - skillfully woven into a substantive, poem-like song - is a testament to Panditji's artistic genius. Tabla: Sanjay Kumar 'No substitute for his flute...the complete master' - The Hindustan Times?? "A volcano of creative expression' - The Indian Express?? "His flute is an unending fountain of myriad melodies, always fresh, always original..." - The Patriot?? 'Creator of beautiful, wide and ethereal canvasses...' - The Deccan Herald?? '20th Century Renaissance Genius..' - The Cleveland Plain Dealer?? 'Intensely romantic...lyrical...extremely serene...' - Rave Magazine?? "Innovator in the world of music.. a versatile genius." -The JS Magazine?? "Seeker of truth through music. One of the greatest flautists of this world" - The Times of India?? "Reflective music, refreshing and genuinely haunting" - The New York Times?? "Awe inspiring. Freshness and finesse in every note. Marked by gay abandon, innovativeness and imaginative vitality" - The Statesman?? "Suave tonicity, lyricism, rich melodic beauty" - The Listening Post?? SUNRISE (Vol. 2) Originally recorded live in Bombay, India and Springfield, VA, USA Digitally re-mastered at The Red & Green company, VA, USA Special thanks to Smt. Lakshmi V. Rao CD version of Sunrise (Vol. 2) manufactured by Disc Makers, Philadelphia, PA, USA Sound Executive Dr. Vijay Vardhan Elchuri Executive Producer Sanjay Kumar © (p) 2014 by Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao & family from The Red & Green Company "Rays from sunrise drew forth buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings." - Thomas Hardy.

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  Olight RWX Magnetischer Fernschalter - Warrior X / M2R

  The RWX is our brand-new pressure switch built specifically for the Warrior X and Javelot Pro featuring a noiseless and a sensitive pad for perfect switch manipulation. The coiled cable extends the reach of the switch to around 0.8 meters. The RWX is securely connected to the flashlight body magnetically which is a first for the industry. The switch pad includes a long, wide, and tightly wrapped elastic strip allowing the entire surface to easily be activated. The RWX is the perfect weapon attachment accessory for your Warrior X or Javelot Pro.

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