Away Towards the Light, by Moe Staiano

Away Towards the Light

by Moe Staiano

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1.	Movement One 14:15	buy track
2.	Movement Two 18:16	buy track
3.	Movement Three 13:26	buy track

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Away Towards the Light was written in 2016 at the request of Rent Romus, to be performed at the Edgetone 25th Anniversary concert. It was originally composed for nine guitars and drum set. Further musical revisions added electric bass to the score in time for the second performance. The piece has three movements with a connecting flow between each section, and utilizes repeated phrases played for variable lengths of time until cued to change by the conductor. Movements 1 and 3 have four guitar groupings–three groups with two guitars, and one group of three. In the 2nd movement the guitars are broken into three groups of three. The guitar groups play against one another in bouncing rhythms and ongoing hockets, alternating between soft bell-like sustain and bombastic chord clusters in a repeating minimalist setting.

Away Towards the Light is dedicated to Bill Horvitz, a longtime musician in my ensembles in the Moe!kestra days, who sadly passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2017.

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released June 7, 2024

Performed by the Moe Staiano Ensemble: Karl Alfonso Evangelista, Jay Korber, Melne Murphy, John Schott, John Shiurba, Damon Waitkus, Robin Hiroko Walsh, Drew Wheeler, Bill Wolter (Guitars); Jason Hoopes (Bass); Moe Staiano (Drums). Conducted by Suki O’Kane.

Recorded by HL Nelly at SAE Expression College, Emeryville, California, 4 February, 2018. Mixed and mastered by Jonah Strauss at Survivor Sound, Oakland, California, 2020/2021. Additional tech help by Bill Wolter. Cover photo by Moe Staiano. Back cover photo and graphic layout by Melne Murphy. Produced by Moe Staiano.

Thank you: To all and every musician who are on these recordings, as well as those musicians who performed Away Towards the Light in the past (William Johnston Bohrer, Sean Griffin, David James, Feona Lee Jones, Steve Lew, Jeff Livers, Charles Lloyd, Yanka Ginchy Glowniss, Matt Montgomery, Josh Pollock, Damon Wood, and Marc Zollinger), Amy X Neuburg, Fred Frith, Rent Romus, HL Nelly, and Melne Murphy.

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Edgetone Records is place for new music crossing the genre boundaries. Founded by musician/producer, Rent Romus, the label took shape in 1991. After being on a long hiatus Rent re-opened Edgetone in January 2000 and expanded it to support D.I.Y. (do it yourself) artists looking for a ground base and community label identity. ... more

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