Joshua White Flora and Fauna: 9 Preludes for Solo Piano
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Composer and pianist Joshua White unveils a captivating new album, Flora and Fauna: 9 Preludes for Solo Piano, a collection of original works that explore the delicate interplay between the natural world and human emotion. The album will be available on all major streaming platforms on December 19, 2025 via Orenda Records.
Inspired by the textures, rhythms, and quiet mysteries of nature, Flora and Fauna brings to life a series of nine preludes, each representing a unique facet of the living world—from the gentle unfolding of a fern at dawn to the restless energy of wind through the canopy. Through intricate harmonies and vivid tone painting, Joshua White invites listeners to reconnect with the organic pulse of the environment that surrounds us.
“Each prelude is a miniature world,” says Joshua White. “I wanted to capture how sound can breathe like a forest, bloom like a flower, and move like an animal in motion. The pieces are reflections on how we coexist with nature—sometimes in harmony, sometimes in tension.”
Flora and Fauna: 9 Preludes for Solo Piano is both a meditation and a celebration—an invitation to slow down, listen, and rediscover the music inherent in the natural world.
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1. Life Cycles
2. Somber Circulation
3. Harmonic Sinew
4. The Pulse
5. Melodic Progeny\
6. Pursuit of Light
7. Interphase
8. Respiration
9. Secrets of The Cell
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Produced by Joshua White Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Dan Rosenboom at BoomHill Studio, Long Beach, CA
“The Los Angeles based trumpeter’s new album is downright rocking, reminiscent of bombastic yet tight fusions of jazz and progressive metal…here held together by a much more stylistically fluid vision… Rosenboom’s sonic architectures feel breezy despite their intricate composition, while his rousing sustained tones and rapturous licks lead the way like an unfettered guiding light.” –Antonio Poscic, The Wire
“Rosenboom at his toughest and most colorful, busting the walls to find grandeur in the collapse of modernity and opening cracks into the corners of the soul.” –Greg Burk, MetalJazz
“Rosenboom’s return brims with fresh-start urgency, charting a course through environments alive with rhythmic jabs and stabs. Through open platforms—sharply informed by funk, rock, jazz, and metal—he unveils a host of new tricks up his sleeve.” –Felipe Freitas, JazzTrail
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For trumpeter-composer-producer Dan Rosenboom, there are no boundaries when it comes to making music. Genre distinctions are meaningless, unusual combinations of instruments are a hallmark, and sources of inspiration are as numerous as the stars. His expansive and explosive new album Coordinates is a multi-faceted exploration of self through the lenses of found numerical patterns, cosmic temporal imagination, orchestrational possibility, and true friendship. It spans the stylistic universe from progressive jazz to metal, world, symphonic, and chamber music sensibilities and features 28 virtuoso musicians from the Los Angeles jazz scene and Hollywood film recording studios. Through an idiosyncratic approach to rhythm and complex unfolding compositions, Rosenboom presents a programmatic concept album that is as sonically rich as it is emotionally riveting.
The title Coordinates reveals the origin of the compositions at the heart of this new album. Throughout his life, Rosenboom has felt an almost mystical connection to the numbers in the world around us. “Coordinates really started as a game,” says Rosenboom, “a challenge for myself to make compelling music out of a series of “found” numbers. These numbers, a series of coordinates that flashed across the screen in a favorite science fiction show, gave me the idea to lay out a grid of time signatures like a game board and to see if I could make those metric relationships groove.” Using these numbers to create the rhythmic frameworks for a series of five pieces, Rosenboom embarked on what would ultimately become a four-year journey in writing and production. Rosenboom continues, “Each piece is an exploration through sound, investigating different moods and aspects of my own persona and imagination – coordinates of being, so to speak. As I wrote and produced this album, I imagined each as a sort of ritual dance from an unknown civilization, somewhere among the stars.”
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1. Prisms, Mirrors, Portals
2. Coordinate 1: Many Worlds, Many Dances
3. Coordinate 2: Apophis
4. Josephine’s Dream
5. Coordinate 3: Syzygy
6. Coordinate 4: Nemesis
7. Oracles
8. Old Ghosts
9. Coordinate 5: Hyperion
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Dan Rosenboom: Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Compositions
Rhythm Section: Jake Vossler: Guitars Jerry Watts, Jr.: Electric Bass Caleb Dolister: Drums
Keys: Jeff Babko: Fender Rhodes (Track 2) Gloria Cheng: Piano (Tracks 4, 5 & 9) Joshua White: Piano (Track 7)
Percussion: Wade Culbreath: Vibraphone and Marimba (Tracks 3, 5, 7 & 9) Petri Korpela: Hand Percussion, Gongs, Metallics, Tambourine, Shakers & Shells (Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Strings: Jacqueline Kerrod: Harp (Track 4) Lauren Elizabeth Baba: Viola (Track 6) Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: 5-string Electric Violin (Track 7) Michael Valerio: Contrabass (Track 4)
with The Lyris Quartet (Tracks 4 & 9): Alyssa Park: Violin Shalini Vijayan: Violin Luke Maurer: Viola Timothy Loo: Cello
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Dan Rosenboom, BoomHill Studio, Long Beach, CA Co-Produced by Jake Vossler, Jerry Watts Jr., and Caleb Dolister Mastered and Lathe Cut by Stephen Marsh, Marsh Mastering, Hollywood, CA
Additional Production: Drums Recorded and Co-Mixed by by Caleb Dolister, Oakland, CA The Lyris Quartet recorded by Matt Snyder, Allegro Recordings, Burbank, CA Gloria Cheng Piano Recorded by Aidan McLain at The Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, CA Harp Recorded by Jacqueline Kerrod Flutes Recorded by Katisse Buckingham 5-String Electric Violin Recorded by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Contrabass Recorded by Michael Valerio Percussion Recorded by Petri Korpela and Wade Culbreath
1. Mysterious Encounter 2. Sundance 3. The Field 4. The Light Of The Spirit 5. In The Beginning 6. Moondance 7. Howling Thunder 8. Journey To A Fantasy
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Composed, Arranged and Mixed by Kitaro
Produced by Kitaro and Mickey Hart Recorded by Tom Flye Mixed by Kitaro Mastered by Tim Gennert Executive Producer : Eiichi Naito Artists + Repertoire : Dino Malito
A collaboration between ambient artists Dino Malito and Venedel, Athabasca blends lush sonic textures with emotional resonance to create a radiant, meditative journey. Venedel, known for her introspective instrumental soundscapes, joins forces with Dino—acclaimed for his long-standing work with Grammy and Golden Globe winner Kitaro and his role at Los Angeles–based Domo Records.
Unfolding through gentle waves of synth, guitar, and piano, Athabasca carries the listener into a state of spacious calm. It begins with soft, atmospheric drones and gradually expands into a richly layered experience. From the first shimmering tones to the final whisper of guitar, the track offers a quiet, expansive space for reflection—imbued with warmth, clarity, and stillness.
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Composed and Recorded by Dino Malito and Venedel Mixed by Tim Gennert Mastered by Gavin Lurssen Arranged and Produced by Dino Malito
Marcos and The Wild Machinations The Wild Machinations ll
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The Wild Machinations ll
Marcos and The Wild Machinations: Marcos Fernandes – vocals, guitars, percussion, mellotron, phonography Keikin Shu – guitars, vocals Mitsuru Kotaki – keyboards, vocals Yoshiharu Hiramoto – bass, vocals Yuko Kitayama – drums Sono Kaneko – vocals
with Yoichiro Kita – trumpet Sawa Iwasaki – trombone
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1. Winds Are Howling
2. The Path
3. The River Flows
4. Dancers In The Sun
5. Sora To Kumo
6. Do What You Please
7. Nagare Ni Tatsu
8. Rock And Roll
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The Wild Machinations II is the follow-up to Marcos and The Wild Machinations’ eponymous 2021 debut album. Featuring 8 songs (five by Marcos Fernandes and three covers) revolving around the themes of direction and orientation (and of course, love), the collection offers observations on the capricious twists and turns of life and the meanderings of a lost people and a rudderless society.
As Fernandes explains, “while making this record, the song order for the album presented itself to me. It seemed to want to tell a story. I was thinking what it’s about – what story it’s trying to tell. It’s pretty much rooted in the present. Not so much in the past or the future. Living, breathing, in the moment. Like a jittery news reel.“
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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Shinji Kawase at Gumbo Studio. Additional recordings by Marcos Fernandes at West Valley. Thanks to Yukihiko Sugimoto for drum tech. All songs by Marcos Fernandes except original lyrics for Nagare Ni Tatsu by Elizabeth Levett translated by Miho Yamazaki; Dancers In The Sun by Yoshihiro Hayashitani; Sora To Kumo by Katsutoshi Morizono/Yasuo Suematsu; Rock And Roll by John Bonham/John Paul Jones/Jimmy Page/Robert Plant. Cover art and design by Kio Griffith.
Special thanks to Saiya Kawabe, Marina Midorikawa and Kyoko Kawamura.
1. Prelude 2. The Darkness (For Andrew) 3. Embark 4. Encircled 5. Dragonfly (For Gomeo) 6. Soliloquy 7. Shards Of Light 8. Sorrows Return (For Ronnie) 9. Memories Of NY (featuring Bristol Lightning) 10. Lullaby Of Kingston 11. Coral 12. Road Trip (featuring Bristol Lightning) 13. Onwards
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Produced by Chuck Palmer Recorded by Davis Hart, Matt Smile Mixed by Brendan Muldowney, Johnny Nice Executive Producer : Eiichi Naito Artists + Repertoire : Dino Malito Mastering : Gavin Lurssen
Jim Piela – alto, soprano saxophones, composition Mark Mcintyre – guitar Nick Jost – bass Peter Kronreif – drums
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1. Glass Cannon
2. Off Course
3. Improvisation #1
4. Hinterlands
5. It Comes With the Territory
6. Improvisation #2
7. Crow Hill
8. Improvisation #3
9. We’ll Burn That Bridge When We Get to It
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Recorded and mixed by Mike Verselli at Bacque Recording Engineering Studios Mastered by Rocky Russo Produced by Jim Piela & Mike Verselli
Special Thanks to: Mike, Mark, Peter, Nick, and Rocky for making this all sound so good. Luis Bacque for his immense and unwavering generosity with his talent, tools, time, and space. Kio Griffith for the unbelievable artwork. Alex Piela, Christine and Ken Dunbeck, Mark and Kate Piela; for your continuous love and support. Sasha the cat; best office assistant you could ask for. And Becca with love; for being my confidant, sounding board, and copy editor.
Fabio Rambelli New Heritage / Contemporary Compositions for Gagaku Instruments
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This trio is the result of an intercontinental collaboration between three musicians with different backgrounds but united for their love of classical Japanese Gagaku and its possibilities in terms of new music. New Heritage includes some of the earliest contemporary compositions for Gagaku instruments, the two Sonatas by Alan Hovhaness, exciting new music by Masatora Goya and Fabio Rambelli, and an astonishing rendition of Julius Eastman’s Buddha in an adaptation for double woodwind trio. This is the world premiere recording of all these compositions.
2. Sonata Op. 171 Hichiriki (Oboe) and Shō (Organ) by Alan Hovhaness (1962)
3. Sonata Op. 121 for Ryūteki and Shō (Flute and Organ) by Alan Hovhaness (1968)
4. Onibi by Masatora Goya (2023)
5. Buddha by Julius Eastman (1964) (adaptation by Fabio Rambelli, 2023)
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Recorded November 2022 at the University of California, Santa Barbara by Avery Wheeler Mixed by Rory Lindsay (01, 05), Todd Groves (03), Masatora Goya (04), and Thomas Piercy and Masatora Goya (02) Mastered by Chris Kung at João Carvalho Studio, Toronto Produced by Fabio Rambelli and Rory Lindsay Cover art by Kio Griffith/9rpm.com Cover design by Gert Rude Music
Special thanks to Rent Romus of Edgetone Records, Masatora Goya, and Kio Griffith.
Roger Aplon and Marcos Fernandes Of What I’ve Seen
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Roger Aplon – spoken word Marcos Fernandes – drums, percussion, Pro-One synth, phonography, ney
with Burnett Anderson -trumpet (9) Yoko Arai – piano (5,13) Hans Fjellestad – Moog (1,10) Eric Glick Rieman – prepared Rhodes (2) Jan Mah – guitar (10) JasonRobinson – sax (6) Jyoji Sawada – bass (6,9,13)
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Poet Roger Aplon and musician Marcos Fernandes unveil Of What I’ve Seen, a powerful and gripping collaborative work. A collection of thirteen of Aplon’s poems set to music by Fernandes, the album – both a culmination of their decades-long partnership and a fresh new approach to their creative interplay – engages the listener with its immediacy and its myriad moods. Though living in different continents, the two have managed to create a cohesive narrative and a chronicle of their times. Aplon, a well traveled and well published poet, offers a broad historical perspective and poignant social commentary, stating that the poems “seem to speak about the country I was raised in and the culture I wrestled and still wrestle with. I think the selection serves as a reflection on the times and character that has shaped much of my writing.“ Fernandes, himself a well traveled and published multi-instrumentalist and soundartist, brings forth his catholic compositional style to sculpt a studied yet spontaneous soundtrack for each poem. With the help of a select group of players expanding his palette, Fernandes conjures up diverse backdrops from beat driven ensemble grooves to abstract improvisations to ambient soundscapes.
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1. In Memoriam – Richard Avedon
2. Midwestern Christmas
3. The Woman Aaron
4. She’s Chosen
5. Some Kids Set Me On Fire
6. The Planting & Nurturing
7. The Shades In America
8. It’s Mother’s Day
9. Trailing The Army
10. The Part of the Gypsy Girl
11. You Sent Me To Kill Or Be Killed
12. Donde Esta Mi Madre
13. At the Side of the Road
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Recorded, assembled and mixed by Marcos Fernandes at West Valley. Drums recorded and mixed by Shinji Kawase at Gumbo Studio. Mastered by Shinji Kawase at Gumbo studio, Yokohama. Roger Aplon recorded in La Mesa. Burnett Anderson recorded by Carlos Arias at Onesimo Studio Productions, Chula Vista, California; Hans Fjellestad in West Hollywood, Eric Glick Rieman by Jeff Karsin in Taos, New Mexico, Jason Robinson in Amherst, Massachusetts, Yoko Arai s\and Jan Mah in Tokyo and Jyoji Sawada at West Valley, Yokohama.
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