Drum Legend Terry Bozzio To Release "Composer Series" 4-CD/DVD!
Drum Legend Terry Bozzio To Release “Composer Series” 4-CD/DVD!
Los
Angeles - Legendary & award winning melodic drummer, Terry Bozzio
is releasing worldwide, what he calls a “Life's Work” project of
Art & Music on the Japanese label Ward Records in December 2015.
Bozzio is embarking on a world tour to promote it starting in Japan
and Europe in the fall of 2015 & continuing throughout the US &
other territories in 2016. Terry has worked with Frank Zappa, Jeff
Beck, Korn, UK, Missing Persons, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Alan
Holdsworth, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, Quincy Jones, Ken Scott, Metropole
Orkest, SMAP, Loudness' Munetaka Higuchi & “X” Japan's Hide -
as well as Film score composers Basil Poledouris, Mark Isham &
Patrick O'Hearn - see more at www.terrybozzio.com - Grammy winner,
RockWalk Honoree, Modern Drummer magazine's Hall of Fame Award,
Rolling Stone's Top 5 Drummers of All Time!
Says
Bozzio, “I've been composing, (not just song writing, like for
Missing Persons & Jeff Beck) since the '70s. I compose in all
styles (as one might classify them), from classical to ambient,
electronic, film-like to fusion/rock or jazz. I have my own character
or personality, it's unique. I work with many different processes
from writing notes on paper, to recording live, to several different
computer software applications I may use, that are suited to the
particular result I am trying to achieve. Both Zappa & famed
musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky encouraged me to compose & I have
had my Chamberworks performed at the Vienna Jazz Festival & in
Holland w/Metropol Orkest.”
He
continued, “I first got interested in Art & Sketching at the
encouragement of renowned artist Don Van Vliet (aka: Captain
Beefheart) who I played with on my first Zappa/Mothers of Invention
tour in 1975. Don was always carrying markers & paper & it
looked like fun, so I bought some myself & started. He was very
encouraging. Last year, I released my first project called Rhythm &
Sketch in collaboration with the art group Scene Four. It's been
successful & inspired me to do more. (available at
www.terrybozzioart.com)”
Terry
Bozzio fulfilled a major 2 &1/2 month US solo tour in 2014 in
which he displayed his art as a stage set while performing melodic,
tuned melodies on his strikingly large drum set, to sold out crowds.
“I
thought it would be great to share this music which I’ve been
working on & keeping to myself for so long. I hope to show a
different side of my expression from what people are used to seeing
from my solo drumming. And, I wanted to have an abstract painting to
represent & be paired with each title to create this hybrid
project of music & art,” Bozzio explained.
The
“Composer Series” contains 59
individual pieces or movements
of compositions with a painting in a booklet for each title, along
with detailed liner notes for each piece, explaining his concepts,
feelings, process and approach for each. It will be available in
a deluxe hard-cover artbook which includes Terry Bozzio’s hand drawn
illustrations and commentary for each piece, audio CDs & a solo drum
performance Blu-Ray shot in Japan in 2015
(w/bonus footage), 192kHz/24bit Hi-Res audio of the 59 pieces on Blu-ray
and a bonus DVD including 60min talk session of Terry Bozzio with Masa Ito. The material
will also be made available in CD/DVD or 4CD/Blu-ray for record stores,
as well as in many or individual downloadable formats online.
Release
Formats:
Direct
sales only Premium Edition / 4CD + Blu-ray + Hi-Res Audio Blu-ray +
Bonus DVD (region free) - WRDZZ-334 (Limited to 500 sets)
All
discs are enclosed in a hard-cover book along with Terry’s
hand-drawn paintings and commentary (includes Japanese translations),
with Terry's autograph. Fans purchasing the Premium Edition could
participate an album listening event and autograph session with Terry
Bozzio on 18th December 2015 *Details to be announced at a later
date.
CD
Track list:
CD1
Fusion1
1.
North 101
2.
Joe
3.
Existential
4.
Psychic Energy
5.
Arabia
6.
Cityscape
7.
Offering
8.
What Is A Memory?
9.
Watched (Under Surveillance)
10.
Me, Jeff & Tony
CD2
Fusion2
1.
Marked Man
2.
Al & Doug
3.
Blues for ?
4.
Miles
5.
Fascist
6.Heavy
Metal
7.
Beast
8.
Psychopath
9.
Db Modal
10.
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
11.Three
Friends
12.
ADD
13.
Rondo for Woodwinds
CD3
Classic
1.
Six Miniatures for Guitar & Piano
2.
Far East
3.
Music For Idiots
Three
Postcards From Japan
4.
Ukiyoe (Full Version)
5.
Matsuri (Festival)
6.
Haiku (Go-Shichi-Go, 5-7-5)
7.
The Courier
8.
Sunday Morning
9.
Wisteria
10.
Mayumi
11.
Afro-Industrial Fugue
12.
Orchid
13.
An Adventure in Modern Spain
14.
Elegy
15.
Drama
16.
Herr Nordegg
17.
What She Never Heard
18.
Ukiyoe (String Quartet Version) (bonus track)
CD4
Ambient
1.
Silenced
2.
Self Deceived
3.
Anime
4.
Liquid
5.
Displaced
6.
Conversion Process
7.
Perception of Honesty
8.
Trees In Winter
9.
Dream
10.
Document 2.5
11.
Siren
12.
Dark Energy
13.
Yon wa no Karasu (4 Crows)
14.
Fractalization
15.
Shrine
16.
Cloud Chamber
17.
In Memoriam 9-11
18.
Alone
Blu-ray/DVD
Contents (region free):
Terry
Bozzio Drum Solo at Landmark Studio
Bonus:
Introducing
Terry Bozzio's Drum Set
Terry
Bozzio's Drum Set set up and take down time-lapse video
Audio:
Blu-ray:
Linear PCM Stereo / DTS HD Master Audio
DVD:
Dolby Digital Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1ch Surround Sound
Audio
Blu-ray
Bonus
DVD:
Terry
Bozzio and Masa Ito Talk Session
Run
Time: Approximately 60 minutes
To
purchase:
Hardcover
Book Premium Edition 4CD+Blu-ray+Blu-ray (Audio)+Bonus
DVD: http://wardrecords.com/SHOP/WRDZZ334_OS.html
4CD+Blu-ray: http://wardrecords.com/SHOP/GQCS90069_3_OS.html
JAPAN
TOUR 2015 / 2016 An Evening with Terry Bozzio
*Celebrating
the release of “Terry Bozzio Composer Series” CD Box
Set*
04
Dec (Fri) – Takasaki (Gunma) / Club Fleez
13
Dec (Sun) – Koufu (Yamanashi) / Sakuraza
22
Dec (Tue) – Toyama / Summer Knight
25
Dec (Fri) – Kanazawa (Ishikawa) / AZ
27
Dec (Sun) – Fukui /Chop
04
Jan 2016 (Mon) billboard-LIVE Tokyo
06
Jan 2016 (Wed) billboard-LIVE Osaka
Terry
Bozzio's Official Drum Tech: Mitsutaka "Michi"
Edakawa
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