Albert's Bicycle Music

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$15

Pirouette Park is a high energy rhythm-driven album designed specifically for dance classes (or for cleaning up your house).

116 bpm, 5:39

Modulo / 109 bpm

4:33

A Delerium Of Swallows

120 bpm, 4:03

Cooler Heads Prevailed

86 bpm, 4:24

Indigo Maria

120 bpm, 4:16

Olocatu

100 bpm, 3:53

Flop Flip

90 bpm, 3:17

101 bpm, 4:50

120 bpm, 4:39

Re: Heat

111 bpm, 4:31

Tindo

127 bpm, 5:56

Jitter

133 bpm, 3:51

Details To Follow

103 bpm, 4:27

120 bpm, 5:22

Sub Marine Dream

135 bpm, 5:51

Compass

128 bpm, 7:00

$15

Legerdemain is the 2nd in a series of recordings for an imaginary keyboard. Like Palmistry, it is a sequence of short preludes for computer and sampled piano. Diverse, witty, highly rhythmic and often melodic, it traverses many styles from blues and boogie-woogie, to xotes, tangos, circus tunes, with occasional side trips into aleatoric worlds.

Prologue

0:38

Booogle Wooogle

2:12

Azan

3:30

Angle of Repose

1:24

Pinacatto

1:08

Xote Do Souto

3:07

Volant

2:09

Neither Horses Nor Heaven

3:59

Truth Told Slant

2:28

Waltz of the Circumspect Corporals

1:37

Prelude Garden

1:45

Smith Grade Tango

4:17

The Lake

1:24

Certain Twilights

3:16

2:31

Caesura

2:40

Approach

3:05

Cirkus Quirkus

2:49

2:43

3:33

Miro Asleep

3:16

$15

Wide Life is an album of scores for contemporary dance, theater, and video installations. Visual and kinetic, it spans Jon's love of electronica, Chopin, Latin, Bulgarian, Brazilian, and chamber music. With over 20 resourceful musicians from California and Rio de Janeiro, the music is lyrical, rhythmical, whimsical, and wise.

In What Furnace

7:01

5:08

Metropolis

2:07

Adjustable Throes

3:23

Soulou

4:08

Windrower

3:47

3:47

Calypso's Dream

3:46

Time Travellers

4:30

Fate's Foxtrot

0:25

Coming In (On a Wing and a Prayer)

33:13

$15

Palmistry is an exploration of possibilities for computer and virtual piano. These etudes are in turn charming, melodic, eccentric, and full of rhythmic vitality. It's keyboard music for 2,3,4, and 5 hands.

Rousseau's Circus

1:57

Blink Blank

1:15

Reconfirm

2:24

CBCD

4:12

2:41

Chorinho #3

2:03

Wide Life

2:52

Borsalino

2:24

2:26

Slipside

2:50

Somewhat Samba

1:27

Cecil

0:50

2:27

Celadonia

2:47

Triolais

2:33

Riverrun

4:13

Rousseau's Moon

2:43

A Little Morning Music

1:04

Vaults

2:48

Chiba Choro

2:01

Time Will Tell

1:42

Itty Bitty Bop

0:53

Fate Foxtrot

0:39

Surjorio

2:02

$15

Albert's Bicycle is in a more contemplative vein. Included are pieces for gallery installations and multi-media dance/theater. There is a probing quality and gentle glisten. The album features Jon's mixing his various musical styles and influences with samples and midi files, as well as some solo work by the brilliant Brazilian accordionist, Chico Chagas.

Home By Bicycle

22:55

The Book of Radiance

10:15

Other Echoes

19:45

An Algebra of Time

7:00

The Law of Calling

4:15

Gathered at the Waters

9:35

$15

Listening to the Earth was originally scored for a full-length children's dance concert written and directed by Tandy Beal. The concert has been performed in numerous locations throughout the U.S. with over 5,000 children participating.

Pied Piper Waltz
Listen to the Earth Beat
Fan Fare (The Call)
Moshi Moshi
Asia Numero Uno
Flip Flop
Tropicalia

On the Move
Night Sky
Enchanted Run
Gamelan George
Starstream
Adjustable Jones
Pied Piper Waltz (reprise)

$9

is a series of scores for the choreography of Tandy Beal and Phyllis Haskell. Written in the late '80's, it is full of drama and mystery, from dance rituals to musical snapshots of Brazil. Available only as a cassette; CD version to be released in 2004.

The Bone People
Boca Do Ceu
Roots in the Dark
What Our Ancestors Knew

Neither Darkness Nor Science
It Will Undo Him (Pity This Monster, Man)