Topic: Timothy Cooper

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The Debut CD, A RUMOR OF THE SUN is a musical collage of settings focusing on the haunting voice of the Native American Flute. This beautiful instrument blends itself seamlessly into the worlds of jazz, ambient, and meditative, ranging from contemplative melodies to rhythmically charged improvisations. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Bill draws influence from many musical worlds, including classical, jazz, and commercial. An award-winning composer and arranger, his music has been featured in jazz festivals and the concert stage both here and abroad. A lifelong fascination with indigenous music and an interest to connect with his own distant heritage ultimately led him to the Native American flute. Influenced by masters like R. Carlos Nakai, he began incorporating the traditions of the flute into the harmonic and rhythmic structures of jazz and contemporary classical music.
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'East to West' is a collection of a journey, a soundtrack styled album that fuses elements of classical, pop, jazz & electronic elements. A concept album from the start to the very end entirely recorded, and produced by Jacelyn.'East to West' is like the soundtrack of a journey to an ideal place that might be found in the heart of everybody. A place that this music is meant to evoke through the creation of different atmospheres fusing elements of classical, pop, jazz & electronic. Listening to it as a whole from start to finish unveils a hidden world that arouse a unique experience in the listener/traveller, making this an album that 'speaks right to the heart...makes you dream of fantastic landscapes where the sky is purple and the sea so transparent that you can see right to the very bottom of it. The journey from East to West is not one way, it's like a bridge joining two worlds, bringing them together and we think that everyone should cross it at least once.'
A concept album from the start to the very end, it comprises of 21 pieces in two parts reflecting two different creational periods of the artist. Entirely recorded and produced by Jacelyn, it is an album that spans over a 10 year period involving over 15 different musicians, whom all of which have given the blend of color, mood and atmosphere in which Jacelyn has sought to discover her music.
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SHADES AND PERSPECTIVES is a musical topographical experience which is intriguing and penetrating. It is powerful, but also vulnerably intimate. Her music leaves the listener wrapped in an audio world of brilliantly colored sonorities of the soul. Born in Los Angeles, California, Catherine Towbin started composing and playing the piano at age seven. Except for some brief exposure to various musical sources, she was largely self taught until the age of twelve. She then began her formal piano studies with Leah Effenbach with whom she studied for five years. Leah Effenbach was a graduate of piano of both The Peabody Institute and The Julliard. From 1982 until 1986 Catherine attended Samford University where she studied both music and chemistry. She graduated with honors and received the Bachelor Of Music Degree. Throughout her college education she studied piano with Witold Turkiewicz who is a former student of Rudolph Serkin at The Curtis Institute Of Music. Catherine won the 1984 Concerto-Aria competition with the Khachaturian D-flat piano concerto and performed with The Alabama Symphony Orchestra. She was the alternative winner of the 1985 Concerto-Aria competition with the Beethoven Third piano concerto in c minor. In 1986 Catherine went to France where she performed and accompanied soloists. Since then she has also performed in the United States, The Netherlands, Belgium and Romania. Catherine moved to Europe in 1991 and currently lives in Belgium. Catherine's music has a visual element and is accessible to both the intellectually discriminating listener as well as the spiritually intuitive listener. Although Catherine is a contemporary composer, she does not feel a specific need to be exclusively identified with the more typical techniques of this period. "It is not my desire to write music that could potentially push a borderline schizophrenic over the edge into a full blown episode just to make my artistic statement. I also don't believe in being a rebel without a cause. I just create music that in my own way brings people to a place inside themselves that they perhaps wouldn't otherwise experience.I use whatever tools necessary to achieve my artistic goal."
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