Yours portly is hard at work on Spooky Season IV and it’s nearly done. I don’t have an official release date yet, but I hope to have it out by Halloween (preferably about a week before).
That said, here’s one of the pieces from the release, which features a number of colorful ghosts.
Yours portly has three separate releases that I plan to now release in early September, as my distributor, CD Baby, usually takes about three weeks to approve releases for distribution. Two of the releases feature older works, but one will feature tons of new pieces.
This week, I’m featuring one of those new pieces, “Vibin'”:
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I’m in the process of working on three different releases right now, two of which consist of old material (some of it very old), one of which includes new works. My tentative plan is to release all three of them on the same day, so listeners will enjoy an explosion of new-to-them pieces from yours portly.
The collection of new pieces is Ringtone Circus. The pieces don’t all have a Nokia cellphone ringtone feel to them, but several possess that plinking, happy, upbeat quality.
Today, I’m sharing the pieces that prominently feature mallet-based instruments: vibraphones, marimbas, etc.
The first piece is the title track, “Ringtone Circus“:
“Ringtone Circus” is a trio for marimbas. It sounds like a lively cell phone ringtone!
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Yours portly released a new album earlier this month, Heptadic Structure. It’s an exploration of pieces in 7/4, 7/8, and 7/16 time. Each piece is twenty-one written measures, for a total of 147 measures across the seven pieces. Also, 14+7=21. Math is fun!
You can listen to and/or purchase the album at the following links:
This week I’m featuring the fourth track from the album, “Jaunt.” Jaunt is a duet for tenor saxophone and vibraphone, and it possesses a whimsically jaunty feel.
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