Asphalt Cocktail (John Mackey)
Koninklijke Fanfare Kempenbloei Achel (saxophones & percussion)
Conductor: Ivan Meylemans
Recorded live at World Music Contest Kerkrade (NL), July 24th, 2022
"Echoes of Eternity"
Is an echo just a repetition of what once was? A reverb that fades? Or a purely acoustic phenomenon that teaches us nothing new? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius saw things differently: 'What we do now, echoes in eternity'. Everything we do, sound, create… has a meaning, a reverberation, an impact on what is to come.
This program invites the listener to discover many echoes: sometimes concrete, sometimes symbolic, as sound, as an experience, as a memory, or as a tribute. Echoes of tradition reverberate in new sounds. The orchestra takes you to old masters such as Homer, Gabrieli and Bach, but at the same time introduces new work that will continu to resonate...
Part 4: Asphalt Cocktail (John Mackey)
From the deafening silence of 'At Sea', we now takesyou to the hectic pace of Manhattan, New York. The city that never sleeps symbolizes the echoes of the 21st century: bustling, fast, chaotic and fleeting.
Take a frantic ride with us through New York. Skidding through the bends, whizzing right past crowds, horns of impatient trucks, city sounds bouncing loudly against the famous skyscrapers. Danger behind every corner.
Serve these ingredients 'on the rocks' and you get an 'Asphalt Cocktail'…
Full WMC 2022 program:
Part 1: Not Before Time (Philip Sparke): • Not Before Time (Phili...
Part 2: Elegy:- Echoes of Lives Past (Philip Sparke): • Elegy: Echoes of Lives...
Part 3: At Sea (John Mackey): • At Sea - KF Kempenbloe...
Part 4: Asphalt Cocktail (John Mackey): • Asphalt Cocktail (John...
Part 5: Immortal Back (Knut Nystedt): • Immortal Bach (Knut Ny...
Part 6: A Gabrieli Fantasy (Bert Appermont): • A Gabrieli Fantasy (Be...