I get to hear my newest work in New York City later this month! I wrote new pieces as part of a song cycle for Brooklyn Youth Chorus and they will perform the triptych May 11th at Kaufmann Center New York for Ecstatic Festival! Come join me :D See the links below for all the info you need.
Maybe you have already seen that I shared a brand new picture :D it is also in my about section and of course in the gallery. The fantastic Anja Schütz took it this summer in Massachusetts, in North Adams to be exact. The tuning forks are the forks Roomful Of Teeth have used for their rendition of 7 Planets - based on my choral arragements for Milky Way. I got them from the wonderful Fritz at planetware.de !
He is also from Munich, something I didn't know when researching where I might find tuning forks "out of tune" a ...
On this day in 2019 I released '3' - the first LP and sample library release on SA Recordings! 3 is a collection of twelve almost completely acapella songs exploring relationships, empowerment, motherhood and the patriarchy.
To celebrate the third birthday of 3 SA Recordings I am so pleased to be able to bring you new music in form of a remix EP, '343', made with the help of three wonderful women, Nyokabi Kariũki (finally her winning RECOMPOSE competition version of Fishermen is released online:) ) , Sandunes and Lisel!
Find the EP here: orcd.co/343alevlenz
I sure hope you remember the winner of the Recompose competition from 2020 Nyokabi Kariũki ! As you know, she also released her debut record not too long after on out now mutual label SA Records! And now the first live show for this record is coming up. She asked me to sing with her for this very first show and I feel very honoured to usher the record in with her onto the stage! Come say hi! Tickets here !
I am delighted to join Roomful Of Teeth at their residency this year at MassMoca as once of their composers for new work. Which they will indeed perform for the very first time tomorrow at MassMoca (aka the most awesome place).
Read a little about the residency here: Berkshire Eagle
And find some more info about the show here: MassMoca.org
For my pieces we needed planetary tuning forks as they are not in concert pitch and we need to tune to the planets instead. The image you can see below is a resonator I have built just for this...
The incomparable Anoshka Shankar has a new song out today, announcing an upcoming album!
The song Land of Gold (originally the title-track of her 2016 Grammy-nominated album) is out now in a lush new orchestral avatar via Leiter Verlag.
Credits:
Performed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago, Metropole Orkest and conductor Jules Buckley.
Composed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago and me
New orchestral arrangement by: Jules Buckley
Enjoy and also find it on my collabs Spotify playlist which is ever growing and changing!
If you catch this movie, see if you can spot my song 'Eggshell' ! How very fitting for it to appear in a movie about Peter Pan and growing up - or not ;)
The Lost Girls directed by Livia De Paolis starring Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Iain Glen, Julian Ovenden, Louis Partridge and more is out now! And 'Eggshell' is here (or any other of your favorite streaming service)!