We’re celebrating the fifth Unseen Worlds Records release – Elodie Lauten “Piano Works” 2CD collection - with a listening party on some of the very sublime sounding stereos at Whetstone Audio at 5pm. The audio will be enhanced by the inclusion of some Paris Manhattan cocktails, given that Lauten is a Parisian living in Manhattan, along with the usual beers or byo. Tips will be appreciated but not required, and we’ll of course have albums for sale.

Following the listening party we’ll have a concert at Baby Blue to celebrate.

Starting at 8pm:

Nick Hennies performing his Psalms solo-percussion works and a piece by Alvin Lucier

followed by

J.D. Emmanuel, whose 1982 private-press, meditative synth improvizations LP “Wizards” will soon be reissued by Important Records

Proceedings should be over by 10pm so you can have successfully prepartied for whatever comes next that night (i.e. R U FIT at Cheer Up Charlies)

The Baby Blue show will have a $5 suggested cover at the door and there will be drinks on hand to make it worthwhile.

We recommend riding your bike to and from these events, though parking is available.

RSVP on Facebook here.

Come on out if you’re in the Austin area.

With this we also bring you the second installment of video from Lauten’s 1985 performance at Music Gallery in Toronto.  This is video of the extended piece Sonate Modale which is featured on Piano Works Revisited. Also available to view on YouTube.

This past November we produced a joint solo-piano concert for “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Lubomyr Melnyk.  The concert was a great success in large part for the gift of “Blue” Gene Tyranny composing a new piece in honor of the occasion. The piece, entitled “George Fox Searches,” was inspired by the beautiful 15th Street Friends Meetinghouse of Manhattan where the concert was held.

Our professional live recording came out terrific, but we’d love to have the opportunity to document a performance on a piano of our choosing, since the piano at the Meetinghouse had some bad keys. Tyranny has other new pieces, as well, which we would document in studio at the same time.

We are humbly asking for your contributions to make this happen.  In return for your generous support of the studio time, we’re sharing the audio and video documentation from the November 12, 2009 concert, as well as opportunities to receive advance recordings from the studio sessions we aim to book.

Please note that the Lubomyr Melnyk portion of the evening will be made available separately at a later date.

Thank you all for your interest and support.

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Set for release in March 2010 is the fifth installment of Unseen Worlds releases, Elodie Lauten Piano Works Revisited.

Piano Works Revisited is a 2CD collection that includes, for the first time on CD, the complete Piano Works (1983) and Concerto for Piano and Orchestral Memory (1984) Cat Collectors LPs with original artwork, Lauten’s solo piano magnum-opus Variations on the Orange Cycle, and other previously unreleased music.

A preorder option is available here.

ONE NIGHT SPECIAL EVENT

Fifteenth Street Friends Meetinghouse (Manhattan)
15 Rutherford Place
New York, NY 10003

Thursday
November 12, 2009
7:00pm – 9:00pm

Cost: $15 / $10 Students and Seniors
Advance tickets

On Thursday evening, November 12th, 2009, Unseen Worlds presents a night of piano music at 15th Street Friends Meetinghouse in Manhattan, only 3 blocks walking distance from 14th Street Union Square.

Composers “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Lubomyr Melnyk will each perform full sets of their own piano works.

“Blue” Gene Tyranny’s piano work, well-known in the Downtown New York scene since the 1970s and proven beautifully in the Lovely Music releases The Intermediary and Take Your Time, has only become more and more well loved and revered with each passing year. His appearance at this concert is very special and greatly appreciated.

Lubomyr Melnyk’s reputation has been slowly and quietly building. Over the last 30 years Melnyk has crafted a massive catalog of artistically demanding and aesthetically beautiful works, outpacing a means of documenting and publicizing them. Recently, with public admiration from popular musical figures like James Blackshaw and Jim O’Rourke, Melnyk’s reputation and fan base is larger than ever. This event is only his second New York appearance ever and his first in 20 years since he first performed at the Ukrainian Institute in 1989. Please join us in welcoming his music back into the States.

It’s with great honor and excitement that we present these two artists in a truly rare meeting. We look forward to seeing all who attend. Special thanks to the Arts Committee at the Meetinghouse for making this event possible.

LINK TO FULL PRESS RELEASE