This will be available in the Spring. As a much larger project with many great musicians, the cost will be $5 more than the first 2 albums, or $20 plus shipping. Preorder by contacting me at edibleland@earthlink.net. Note my albums are a great value with over 70 minutes of music on each one!
About the Album: At the Mostly Modern Festival in June, 2024 I spoke with cellist Dave Eggar about recording some of the music he and others had played there. It expanded into the full album presented here. Dave’s efforts bringing together an amazing group of musicians at Spin Recording Studio in Long Island City/Astoria, Queens NY made this possible, along with Phil Faconti who helped with decisions during recording, Dave working diligently on editing, and the awesome engineer Linds Cadwell. The first piece starts with a large extent of space and time, reminding us to put current events in perspective. Arriving on Earth we find lawlessness and chaos. Then comes music relating to different times and places on our planet, then the rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism, a fugal interlude reminiscent of tragedy some 80-90 years ago, a subsequent despondent ragtime, a few climate pieces – a temperate rainforest, wildfire, and different approaches to agriculture, and ending on a pleasant note reflecting on the beauty of rain and a gentle evening scene. A few pieces have been expanded from my first two albums. In addition to all the musicians listed, thanks go to Terry Keevil, Gerold and Cathy Mohn, Tari Roosa, Stewart Edelstein who helped with test runs of some of the music in an October 2024 concert, my amazing artist wife and friend Jaye Alison Moscariello in designing this album, creating the artwork, singing in the farming piece, offering suggestions in composing, word editing, and almost all aspects of this project, supporting musicians during recording with sustenance, and so much more. I thank all those great composers and songwriters, from Bach to Tracy Chapman, Debussy to Eric Sondheim, Brahms to Paul Winter, so many not mentioned. I am grateful for all those who have encouraged me musically: my father Arnold Taylor, mother Priscilla Taylor, sisters Lucy, Charlotte, Hannah, brother Tom – all musical themselves, Harriet Shirvan, Jerry Gray, Ken Benshoof, Cornish School, Robert Paterson, Stephen Cabell, Sam Adler, Tarik O’Rhegan, Mara Gibson, Paul Moravec, Veronika Krausas, Rob Smith, all the fellow composers at Mostly Modern Festival and musicians and conductors who played my chamber and orchestral pieces, all those thanked on my first 2 albums, Dave Eggar, Linds Cadwell. To anyone not listed, all of you shine through in creating this project.
Please listen first to the music before reading the notes on each piece; you may well hear things better without my interpretations, which I provide if you are curious (I love to tell a story).
Recorded at Spin Recording Studio, NY., Nov. 2024. Mastered by ——————, Production: Bill Taylor, Dave Eggar, Jaye Alison Moscariello, Linds Cadwell, Phil Faconti