Canzonas Americanas, by Alarm Will Sound

Canzonas Americanas

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	1.	Canzonas Americanas: I. El Dude 05:44
	2.	Canzonas Americanas: II. Silvioudades (ecos e lembranças) 03:47
	3.	Canzonas Americanas: III. Montuno Blue 05:11
	4.	Canzonas Americanas: IV. Itaparica 03:04
	5.	Three Rivers 11:28
	6.	At the End of the World 04:16
	7.	Hot Zone 07:58
	8.	Continental Divide 08:51
	9.	Natural Selection: I. One Fly 01:37
	10.	Natural Selection: II. Spider Love 02:55
	11.	Natural Selection: III. Got My Bag of Brown Shoes 04:14
	12.	Natural Selection: IV. Dog 04:29

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“Derek Bermel is the quintessential 21st-century musician…staggering eclecticism from a true musical renaissance man.” – Gramophone Magazine

“…intricate, witty, clear-spoken, tender and extraordinarily beautiful.” - San Francisco Chronicle

Canzonas Americanas marries two postmodern forces – American composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel and the contemporary chamber band Alarm Will Sound. Sharing a joy for stylistic eclecticism, complexity, and clashing dissonances, they form a remarkable recording that combines Bermel’s wild range of instrumental colors with the tight rhythmic ensemble that his music demands. This marks Bermel’s follow-up CD to the Grammy-nominated Derek Bermel: Voices (BMOP/sound) album of large orchestral works.

“Canzonas Americanas establishes Derek as a composer firmly in an American tradition; like Copland, Ives, Gershwin, and Ellington before him,” says Alan Pierson, Artistic Director/Conductor of Alarm Will Sound and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. “Derek synthesizes the diverse musical languages of his time into a unique, thoroughly individual American voice that is tuneful and rich, engaging and sophisticated.”
The versatile Bermel has been widely hailed for his creativity and theatricality. He re-imagines the sounds of indigenous world music, jazz, rock, and funk in his uniquely virtuosic and dynamic compositions. Canzonas Americanas takes listeners on a rhythmic and sonic journey – from the yearning, pulsating chôros at a club in Rio di Janeiro to the intricate, colorful xylophone music of a West African village. “Music is a prism through which I see and reflect the world,” says Bermel.

The title track Canzonas Americanas (2010) was commissioned and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by Gustavo Dudamel. Through a wide array of American popular music idioms and Latin rhythms, Canzonas Americanas evokes the spirit of Gershwin, Ellington, Villa-Lobos, Bernstein, and other trailblazing composers who have been indelibly influenced by both North and South American musical traditions.

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released November 13, 2012

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