Maria Schneider

• 2-CD set with premium packaging.

• CDs come in cardboard sleeves in tri-fold cardboard slipcase

• includes 68 page booklet, slipcase and book gold embossed.

Maria’s vision of the often times vicious digital world vs. the neglected “natural” world (art, poetry, unblemished landscapes, and especially open-eared silence) is brought to full fruition here, with Disc 1 titled “The Digital World,” and Disc 2 named, “Our Natural World.” Though our digital connection can provide needed communication throughout the world, its rush to commercialism through mining customer’s spending habits, and allowing manipulation of our daily life through addicting platforms, has corrupted its intent to improve our lives, and equalize our world’s inequities. The extremes between the digital world, and a more tranquil (you might say “healthy”) world has never been greater. Daily we look down at our digital devices, while ignoring the simple beauty of the “natural” world around us.

PERSONNEL:

• Maria Schneider, composer, conductor, with;

• Steve Wilson - alto/soprano/clarinet/flute/alto flute
• Dave Pietro - alto/clarinet/piccolo/flute/alto flute
• Rich Perry - tenor
• Donny McCaslin - tenor/flute
• Scott Robinson - baritone/Bb, bass & contra-bass clarinets
• Tony Kadleck - trumpet/flügelhorn
• Greg Gisbert - trumpet/flügelhorn
• Nadje Noordhuis - trumpet/flügelhorn
• Mike Rodriguez - trumpet/flügelhorn
• Keith O'Quinn - trombone
• Ryan Keberle - trombone
• Marshall Gilkes - trombone
• George Flynn - bass trombone
• Gary Versace - accordion
• Ben Monder - guitar
• Frank Kimbrough - piano
• Jay Anderson - bass
• Johnathan Blake - drums/percussion

TRACKS:

• CD 1:
• 01. A World Lost
• 02. Don’t Be Evil
• 03. CQ CQ, Is Anybody There?
• 04. Sputnik
• 05. Data Lords.

• CD 2:
• 01. Sanzenin
• 02. Stone Song
• 03. Look Up
• 04. Braided Together
• 05. Bluebird
• 06. The Sun Waited for Me