i know i've been sending everybody over to the new site, and it's mostly a nice place to hang out and enjoy a lot of good content. but this is the first time i've wanted to upload an mp3 over there since the site launch, and i'm stymied, so i'm uploading it here. anybody know the ins-and-outs of the joomla! platform, i'd sure appreciate some help.
TRUE LOVE is an unreleased song of elliott's. there were a couple of different studio mixes that've made the rounds, and that would have been great as part of elliott's last studio record, FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL. it's a devastating and beautiful song, one of my absolute favorites. i take my inspiration mainly from a performance elliott gave in LA @ the wiltern theater.
my performance here was during the live taping of From the Top we did @ the Heifetz Summer Music Insitute in Wolfeboro, NH.
thanks to berred ouelette for engineering the session.
enjoy.
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This Typepad site is in the process of being torn down, and the new www.christopheroriley.com is up-and-running and filled with great new content!.
Hope to see you there soon!
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This performance was recorded as part of a From the Top live taping @ the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, AZ on 2008.11.18.
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This performance was recorded as part of an Indianapolis taping of From The Top @ Warren Performing Arts Center on 2008.12.06
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This was my breakpiece at the From the Top taping on 2008.10.11@Northfield Mount Herman Academy's beautiful new concert hall.
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In memoriam, Rick Wright, the composer of the song.
this audio came out of live video capture for eventual uplink @ NPR Music.
our radio broadcast innaugurated their beautiful new concert hall, and a great Steinway concert grand was graciously provided through Steinway's Boston affiliate. the instrument was lovingly prepared (and vigilance was key, as i knocked a solid tuning for a loop with the pieces i was recording) and looked after by Shaun O'Connell, an artisan and a gentleman.
thanks as always to the discerning ears of our From The Top sound crew, Berred Ouelette, Dan Hallas and John Servies.
thanks to David Balsom for putting it together, and to Elizabeth DeVore who takes waay too good care of me, onstage and off, and for Reid: i hope your arm isn't too tired dude; now get cracking and cut this puppy together!
cheers
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In addition to being From The Top's broadcast home, NPR has been kind enough to include me (this for the first of many times) on their Music website, NPR Music.
So now, with the help of Reid Mangan at the FTT office, we're shooting and uploading videos of my breakpieces.
This one, Reid Anderson (of The Bad Plus)'s 'Lost of Love' was taped back in May at Jordan Hall in Boston.
Here's the link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94061655
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This arrangement comes from work I did over the summer. I finally had the chance to play it for the first time as part of a From the Top taping that took place in San Antonio, TX @ Laurie Auditorium, 2008.09.13. Sadly, the performance of this great Kurt Cobain song occured the same weekend one of my favorite writers, David Foster Wallace, took his own life. His wife discovered he'd hung himself in their home in Claremont, CA, where David was an inspirational presence at Pomona College. 'Infinite Jest' is in my top-five books of all time. It's devastating to know that such a voice will be silent forever more. Both David and Kurt will be sorely missed.
Download nirvana_heartshaped_box_2008.09.13@Laurie Auditorium_San Antonio, TX.mp3
new material:
this audio came out of live video capture for eventual uplink @ NPR Music.
our radio broadcast innaugurated their beautiful new concert hall, and a great Steinway concert grand was graciously provided through Steinway's Boston affiliate. the instrument was lovingly prepared (and vigilance was key, as i knocked a solid tuning for a loop with the pieces i was recording) and looked after by Shaun O'Connell, an artisan and a gentleman.
thanks as always to the discerning ears of our From The Top sound crew, Berred Ouelette, Dan Hallas and John Servies.
thanks to David Balsom for putting it together, and to Elizabeth DeVore who takes waay too good care of me, onstage and off, and for Reid Mangan, who shot the first one (Lost of Love, presently up on NPR Music) so well, i'm looking forward to seeing more. thanks, Reid.
cheers
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The Bad Plus played a stellar weekend at the Catalina Bar & Grill in Los Angeles.
Here's their incredible take Saturday night on Neil Young's 'Heart of Gold':
Download 2008.09.06@8pm-heart of gold_noise reduction OFF.mp3
Friday night:
Download heart_of_gold_2008.09.05_no noise reduction.mp3
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