Urlicht

Primal Light
Symphonie n° 5, Marche funéraire
The Drummer Boy
Now will the Sun rise as brightly
I often think they have merely gone out!
Symphonie n° 1 "Titan"
I went out this Morning over the Countryside, Resurrection
Symphonie n° 5, Adagietto
The Drunkard in Spring
Primal Light
Who thought up this Song
The Farewell

Arto Lindsay, voix
Uri Caine, piano
Dean Bowman, voix
Aaron Bensoussan, récitant
Joey Baron, batterie
Dave Binney, saxophone soprano
Danny Blume, guitare, électronique
Don Byron, clarinette
Dave Douglas, trompette
Mark Feldman, violon
Michael Formanek, basse
Larry Gold, violoncelle
DJ Olive, platines
Josh Roseman, trombone

In early 1995, the New York-based jazz pianist, composer and arranger Uri Caine was approached by German music producer Stefan Winter about adapting the music of Gustav Mahler for a documentary film Winter's brother Franz directed in 1993 and 1994. Caine was also asked to debut this music during a live performance accompanying a screening of Winter's film at the Knitting Factory with a group consisting of leading members of New York's creative music community. Caine accepted this commission immediately and enthusiastically and for an entire year intensively immersed himself in Mahler's life and music. He pored over scores, searching for themes and fragments he could assemble into new compositions drawing on nearly every style of contemporary music of our age jazz, Latin, fusion, funk, free jazz and New Music. The premiere performance of Caine's work was a critical and popular success and in May 1996, he entered the studio to record Guastav Mahler- Promal Light, a unique and original tribute to one of the most significant composers of our century.