Angel Boxes

New vocal experiments with Rachel. I am planning to co-release this as a miniCD, along with the "Left Cincinnati" EP later this spring. Meanwhile it can be downloaded for free here: http://joefrawley.bandcamp.com/album/angel-boxes

New single released from upcoming album

http://soundcloud.com/joefrawley/left-cincinnati

Left Cincinnati by joefrawley

January update

Two mini-announcements:

1. Emperor of Daffodils, formerly a CD only release, is now available as a digital download from Bandcamp
LINK: http://joefrawley.bandcamp.com/album/emperor-of-daffodils

2. The forthcoming Left Cincinnati (JFM-CD09) is on schedule for a spring 2010 release. The audio has been completed and design work is underway for CD packaging. The track list and album credits will be as follows:

Left Cincinnati Duration 35:08

1. That Flower 3:40
2. Left Cincinnati 4:35
3. Plain Yellow Dress 5:26
4. The Line 5:07
5. A Secret Story 2:59
6. The Girl on the Quay 4:06
7. Cumulus 8:09
8. Vanishing Point 1:03

Credits and Appropriations
Joe Frawley: piano & electric keyboards, found sounds, synthesized sounds, MIDI programming, electronic processing and arrangement. All original music composed and performed by Joe Frawley. "Ohio 6" dialect sample used by special permission of the International Dialects of English Archive, Paul Meier, founder & director. Amplifier feedback and distortion by Greg Conte. Chemistry textbook read by Amy Kennedy. Sample pack "Amy G", provided by Corsica_S, via The Freesound Project. Other musical samples include: Sample pack "Katy" served by The Freesound Project and produced by Digifish Music; "Fox Lemons" and "Sunday" from the Mememolly YouTube channel, performed by Molly Windman; brief a cappella vocal improvisation from the VHS recording In Concert: Live From Royal Festival Hall London, performed by Bernadette Peters; and "Toads" written and performed by Mia Mastrangelo. Additional vocals by Rachel Rambach. Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Thank you again for your continued support,
JF

Joe Frawley Music 2010

It's 2010, as good a time as any to announce that a new CD will be released, with luck, in the spring. The working title is Left Cincinnati. Also felt like a good time to revise my bio and artist's statement. Here are the new versions, which are more in line with my current intentions.

Bio
Joe Frawley (b. July 4, 1971) is an experimental composer and pianist working out of Norwich, Connecticut whose works blur the boundary between music and sound art. By layering and juxtaposing original music with processed found sounds, field recordings, and recontextualized speech fragments, the composer creates challenging yet accessible sound assemblages bearing a hypnotic dreamlike quality. His works have been widely broadcast internationally and appear on several prominent experimental music compilations, including Vibrö No. 4: Music No Music, published by Double Entendre, Paris.

Artist's statement
I am a pianist, composer, and sound collage artist whose work falls between the cracks of several musical genres. My approach is to combine original music with found sound samples, which I process and arrange electronically to simulate subconscious states, such as dreams, trances, auditory hallucinations, involuntary memories, etc. The found sounds could be voices, sound effects, or musical samples appropriated from a variety of prerecorded media, as well as original field recordings. I particularly enjoy recontextualizing speech samples (a favorite source being public radio interviews) and combining them with other sounds to create new meanings. At the same time, I aim to place the spoken word on equal footing with music, thereby calling attention to the musical qualities of speech. As I continue to work, I find myself drawing increasingly from the female voice: I believe it is the most beautiful instrument in the world. I am fascinated and moved by the tone of female speech, singing, pre-vocal aspiration, sighs, laughter, and the wide variety of wordless vocal expressions for which there are no names. Due to the prevalence of spoken word samples, the resulting work tends to suggest a narrative, however I try not to impose a particular story upon the listener, preferring instead the individual and subjective interpretations of imaginative minds.


-JF

Joe Frawley Ensemble Makes Italian Top Ten

In Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, music critic and composer Girolamo De Simone rates “Emperor of Daffodils” number 8 of his Top Ten CDs for 2009.
http://www.konsequenz.it/desiartic135.jpg
Grazie!

JFE in MungBeing 29

The music of Joe Frawley Ensemble is currently featured in the twenty ninth issue of MungBeing, a webzine dedicated to outsider art, literature and music.
www.mungbeing.com

'Emperor of Daffodils' - Sound Projector 18

Thanks to Ed Pinsent for his kind and generous words in Sound Projector 18, Nov. 2009 issue!
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/current-issue/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvIe6p8ccg

New review

JOE FRAWLEY - EMPEROR OF DAFFODILS (Autoproduzione in Limited edition) GUSTOSO Promettente il nuovo lavoro di Joe Frawley, pianista/compositore del Connecticut, nonché artista del sound collage. I suoi accostamenti a reazione poetica determinano una texture non convenzionale, in cui anche il pianoforte assume un colore «alterato», come nella imminente release Daughters of Industry, o addirittura fuorviante, come nel particolarissimo Narcisse. In nota Agostino De Rosa, segnala come Emperor of Daffodils sia un album dedicato al mito del doppio: lo sguardo voyeristico di Frawley si posa sul femminino allo specchio: la spezzatura del suono pianistico in Narciso sembra allora evocare le (insane?) fratture di Prevert. (Girolamo de Simone, Il Manifesto - Italia)

Clinical Archives release

Daughters of Industy has been re-released on the Clinical Archives net label.
LINK: http://www.archive.org/details/ca330_jfe

The Sixty One

My favorite comment on my thesixtyone page:

I become a cat when _The Hypnotist_plays.

Thanks, nanimo.

Rachel sings 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley

Ok- this isn't Joe Frawley music news, but I feel compelled to share this.

New release : 'Daughters of Industry'

Daughters of Industry by Joe Frawley Ensemble
A pay-what-you-can digital download
http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/doi/doi.htm

http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/doi/doi.htm

Featuring
Joe Frawley - piano, Casiotone, found sounds, electronic processing & arrangement

Rachel Rambach - singing, lungs, larynx, mouth sounds

Greg Conte - guitars, electronic effects

Work in progess, August 2009

Short excerpt of work in progress available to hear on SoundCloud:

http://soundcloud.com/joefrawley/excerpt-from-francine-work-in-progress

Not sure if the next one will be a CD, netlabel release or what. -JF

New release, "Emperor of Daffodils"

I am pleased to announce the release of Emperor of Daffodils, a sonic essay on narcissism and the idolatry of beauty. This is the first release under the name of Joe Frawley Ensemble, a “virtual” ensemble- the artists collaborated electronically via email- including Rachel Rambach, vocalist and music therapist from Springfield, Illinois, and guitarist Greg Conte whose musical project Damn Family is based in Connecticut.

Emperor of Daffodils is a handmade, limited edition compact disc release of 50 copies, featuring a beautifully written essay by professor Agostino De Rosa, University of Venice, Department of Architectural Design.

You may read more about the project and purchase CDs at the project homepage here: http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/ensemble.htm

A few links (Recent Developments, 4/19/2009)

1.
"A Book of Dreams" reviewed on Heathen Harvest e-zine.
http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20090418172223358

2.
I finally settled on a CD jacket design for the forthcoming "Emperor of Daffodils" EP
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefrawleymusic/3453509767/