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By *The sinking of the Charleston-based sportfishing boat, "Physical Therapy," remains a mystery *University of Georgia's Marine Extension Service founded the Coastal Georgia Adopt-A-Wetland program in Chatham County in 2002, and expanded the program into Glynn County last year *No sign of missing boater Euphonic Productions presents:
Over the years he has been commissioned to write for several symphony orchestras, the most successfull work being "Situations", a concerto for guitar, violin and orchestra. He has won the Young Finland prize, the Emma prize for best jazz CD of the year (Finnish Grammy) and has been nominated three times for the Nordic Music Prize. He now lives in New York City, and his main group is the Scorch Trio, with the Norwegians Paal Nilssen-Love and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, whose second CD is to be released on Rune grammofon in September, 2004. Lukas Ligeti’s work covers areas as diverse as "classical" composition, electronics, improvised music, and cross-cultural collaboration. Ligeti studied composition and jazz drums at the Vienna Music Academy as well as two years at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He has composed music for Ensemble Modern, the Kronos Quartet, and his own group Beta Foly, which combines African and Occidental music in experimental ways. His music has been performed by the London Sinfonietta, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Orchestre National de Lyon, London Composers’ Ensemble, Amadinda, and Synergy; and at festivals such as Other Minds (San Francisco), Festival d’Automne a Paris, Meltdown Festival (London), Wien Modern (Vienna), and many more worldwide. As an improvising musician, he has worked with Henry Kaiser, Elliott Sharp, Michael Manring, Wadada Leo Smith, John Tchicai, Benoit Delbecq, Gianni Gebbia, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Ned Rothenberg, Marilyn Crispell, and many others. His ensemble Beta Foly, based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, explores the combination of African traditions and new technologies and has performed in seven countries in Africa and Europe. In 2000, he began a collaboration with Maï Lingani, a singer from Burkina Faso. Shadowglow (TUM CD 006) is improvised music by two very gifted improvisers and composers: Raoul Björkenheim, guitar, and Lukas Ligeti, drums. It is, in Ligeti’s words, “an exploration of spontaneously created timbres and meters coalescing into harmonies and forms we might each have been searching for, but are now Both musicians are trained in jazz and classical Western music theory, and they share a keen interest in African and Asian traditional forms of music. All these influences, harnessed to razor sharp intellect and instrumental dexterity, give Shadowglow a sound unlike any other record ever made. Live, Björkenheim and Ligeti continue the conversation begun on Shadowglow, always extending their language while entertaining and nourishing intellectually curious music lovers everywhere. The duo begins an Eastern U.S. tour in support of Shadowglow May 21, 2004.
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