Michael Levy: News/Bulletins

LIKE A PHOENIX RISING FROM THE ASHES!

My new album, "The Ancient Greek Lyre" is going to be out by the end of September 2010!

This unique album of Ancient Greek Lyre Music will be the "Phoenix rising from the Ashes" from my previous album, "Art of the Lyre"...after having recently withdrawn all digital distribution of "Art of the Lyre", after a series of unbelievably annoying typing errors in the crucial descriptive details of the particular ancient Greek Modes being used (the price of seeking musical perfection!), I had a new spark of inspiration - direct from the Muse!

The result, will be my new album, "The Ancient Greek Lyre" - the concept of this unique album, will be my arrangements for solo replica ancient Greek Kithara (the large wooden lyre, once favoured by the professional musicians of ancient Greece), of 6 precious remnants of the actual music of ancient Greece, & 6 original compositions for replica Kithara, in a selection of some of the original ancient Greek Modes - as described in the writings of Plato & Aristotle, some 2400 years ago...

The 6 examples of the actual music of ancient Greece, includes 2 brand new recordings of some of these precious surviving fragments of ancient Greek music, as well as Dominik Johnson's almost magical remixing of 4 tracks of ancient Greek music I originally recorded for my album, "An Ancient  Lyre"...the subtle reverb Dominik created for this new album, is so frankly amazingly haunting & ethereal, that Apollo Himself should now be suitably appeased!

I have just posted off Dominik Johnson's masterfully mixed Master Disc across the Atlantic to CD Baby TODAY! I anticipate this new album will be ready for release on iTunes, Amazon MP3 Store & CD Baby by early October 2010 - WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

I was pleased to see that my brand new EP album, "Art of the Lyre" was finally back up on iTunes after I had to re-submit the album - when I originally submitted this album, I made a tiny, but crucial typing error...

In keeping the Medieval mega "botch up" regarding the original Ancient Greek Modes being given the wrong ancient Greek names, I realized, to my unbelievable dismay, that I described track 1 of my new album, as being in the Ancient Greek Hypophrygian Mode, instead of the Ancient Greek Phyrgian Mode...ARGH!!! In order to rectify this minuscule but meaningfully mighty typing mistake, I had to pay to re-submit the entire album, all over again... 

After having just paid to have the entire album re-submitted again,  I have now discovered that one of the titles of the tracks ("Mount Olympus", track 6) does not correspond with the audio file I thought I had uploaded for that track, and so I will now have to re-submit the album a second time...OY VEY! The price of seeking "Musical Perfection"!!

Ever optimistic about how to turn a calamity such as this into an opportunity, the second time I re-submit this album, I have decided to extend and rename the album, "The Ancient Greek Lyre", which will feature a mixture of of original compositions in the Ancient Greek Modes, as well as examples of the actual music of Ancient Greece.

I have asked my "Audio-Mixing Magician" Dominik Johnson, to create brand new masterfully mixed audio masters of all of the tracks...with a subtle reverb so utterly contemplative & ethereal, that Apollo Himself should be smiling down upon me from Mount Olympus when the final upload of this album is finally released!

I expect the new re-re-submitted album to be out by the about the end of 2010 - WATCH THIS SPACE!