Frank Rosaly - Cicada MusicJazz drummer Frank Rosaly's debut album as leader. Cicada Music is an extension of drummer Rosaly's original soundtrack work from the documentary Scrappers, which follows the life of two Chicago recyclers scouring the alleys for scrap metal. Rosaly's music is a meditation on that struggle, the vast complexity of the urban environment and the beauty of human perseverance. Using some of the leading voices in Chicago's free music scene, these 10 tracks

the son of an English mother and Jamaican father got his early influences from his mom's record collection

En route to enlightenment

a first prize with excellence at the Austrian national competition Prima la Musica

When his father dies

pinning the pre-amps with stately

Circadia is an album of works by contemporary American composer Andrew Rudin

including: The Aztecs

alchemizing disruption and decomposition into regenerative interior worlds: "Within the darkness and absence is an opportunity for discovery

At 14 tracks

All the arrangements preserve the heady excitement of the famous 'Rossini crescendo' as well as the chamber-like dialogue between wind and strings in the original scores

On the album Tall Fiddler

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