In The Key Of The World, by Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra

In The Key Of The World

by Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra

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1.	Dorothy Chang (b. 1970) - Lost & Found (Folk Song) 02:32	info	buy track
2.	Dorothy Chang (b. 1970) - Lost & Found (Two Gardens) 03:48	info	buy track
3.	Dorothy Chang (b. 1970) - Lost & Found (Emergence) 02:33	info	buy track
4.	Dorothy Chang (b. 1970) - Lost & Found (Meditation) 03:10	info	buy track
5.	John Oliver (b. 1959) - Gypsy Chronicles (Crossing Byzantium) 06:28	info	buy track
6.	John Oliver (b. 1959) - Gypsy Chronicles (The Gates of Europe) 03:13	info	buy track
7.	John Oliver (b. 1959) - Gypsy Chronicles (Cri(se) de conscience) 03:01	info	buy track
8.	John Oliver (b. 1959) - Gypsy Chronicles (Retour aux sources) 05:18	info	buy track
9.	Moshe Denburg (b. 1949) - The King is Dancing 15:19	info	buy track
10.	Farshid Samandari (b. 1971) - Suite concertante: à cette époque-là (days of Kilim) 04:48	info	buy track
11.	Farshid Samandari (b. 1971) - Suite concertante: à cette époque-là (age of Sarouk) 05:13	info	buy track
12.	Farshid Samandari (b. 1971) - Suite concertante à cette époque-là (time for Gabbeh) 04:20	info	buy track
13.	Farshid Samandari (b. 1971) - Suite concertante à cette époque-là (a time for Jajim) 05:00	info	buy track

about

In the Key of the World is the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra's first full-length instrumental album. It features music by Canadian composers Dorothy Chang, John Oliver, Moshe Denburg, and Farshid Samandari, performed by an ensemble of 28 musicians playing instruments from a wide range of musical traditions, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Persian, Indian and European.

In the Key of the World, like the VICO itself, exists in several musical genres at once: classical, world, traditional. It’s fusion music on a global scale; music that transcends borders and breaks down barriers, throwing open the doors of contemporary classical music and forging a new path towards a truly diverse 21st-century Canadian music scene.

“Intercultural music has existed for centuries in most traditional cultures,” says VICO Artistic Director Mark Armanini. “The VICO has spent the past two decades developing a contemporary musical art form that draws on this history and brings the idea of “music as a universal language” to global fruition. We have developed a ground-breaking intercultural sound palette and repertoire that combines aural and written traditions, ancient and contemporary styles, and a huge variety of instruments (bowed strings, plucked strings, winds, brass, percussion) into one ensemble. In this album, the emerging voice of intercultural music sings out in surprising technicolour, rich in new sonic combinations, as traditional historical extended techniques combine with western contemporary techniques and orchestrations.”

Listeners will hear each of the distinctive, ancient musical traditions represented on In the Key of the World - Chinese, Jewish, Persian, Indian and Western European - take on vibrant new colours when showcased in intercultural orchestrations. The album offers a glimpse into the limitless creative possibilities of the intercultural orchestra, and the VICO is proud to present this music to the world, as an aural offering of humanistic beauty and hope for a harmonious future.

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released June 4, 2020

In the Key of the World was recorded on June 25-26, 2019 at Armoury Studios, Vancouver, Canada.

Producer: Mark Armanini
Project Manager: Farshid Samandari
Conductor: Janna Sailor
Engineer: Sheldon Zaharko (Zed Productions)
Album Cover Image: Ornithophony (2019) by Mark Takeshi McGregor
Graphic Design: John Endo Greenaway
Photography: Alistair Eagle
Manufacturing: Precision Disc
French Translation: Anne Duranceau

For the VICO:
Mark Armanini - Artistic Director
Moshe Denburg - Founding Artistic Director
Farshid Samandari - Composer-in-Residence
Melanie Thompson - Communications Manager
Gina Hernandez Sanchez - Marketing & Production Assistant
Don Xaliman - Audio-Visual Recordist

The VICO extends grateful thanks to our funders: Creative BC / Amplify BC and FACTOR. Our heartfelt gratitude also goes out to our Indiegogo contributors (including Session Sponsors Craig Burner, Jim DeLaHunt, and Ron Stuart) and private donors for their generous support of this project! Visit www.vi-co.org to see the full list of wonderful people who helped make the music happen.

© 2020 Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra | Chroma Discs
Contact: info@vi-co.org

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The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, founded in 2001, was one of the first ensembles of its kind in the world. The VICO brings together musicians & composers from many cultural
and artistic communities in the greater Vancouver area. Described as "the United Nations of music", we create and perform orchestral music that transcends boundaries: cultural, social, political, geographical. ... more

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