Description
Format: CD
Catalogue No.: CDGG498
Barcode: 5052571220825
Release Date: 25 Apr 2025
Genre: Avantgarde/Experimental
Amy Denio is a Seattle-based multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance, film and theater, as well as a songwriter and music improviser. Often called an unclassifiable avant-garde jazz musician, her main instruments are voice, alto saxophone, clarinet, accordion, acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, and theremin. The Seattle Theater Group commissioned Denio to compose a new soundtrack for the classic German silent film Varieté for their ongoing silent film series at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. After months of preparation, the 12-piece ensemble performed the score live at the Paramount Theater on February 2, 2019 ~ in the midst of that year’s snowpocalypse. Though the city shut down, the show went on ~ to rapturous applause. Wanting to hear the music again, Amy reassembled the ensemble in 2023 and began putting together the necessary resources to produce the audio recording. With the assistance of Articifial Intelligence to spell out the recording schedule to include nursing breaks every two hours, they recorded 32 sections in two eight-hour days. You can hear 30 of the cues on this release.
1 Title Card – The Judge 3:39
2 It Began In Hamburg 2:25
3 Dinner Distractions 1:18
4 L’Incontro 1:47
5 Femme Faceoff 3:05
6 I Would Like To Try It Again 0:56
7 The New Attraction 1:34
8 She Weaved Her Spell 3:16
9 Wintergarten 5:12
10 Il Responsabile 3:45
11 The Three Artinellis 4:02
12 Backstage 2:12
13 Table Dance – Corridor 2:15
14 Rendezvous 3:15
15 Frühlingsfest 5:49
16 That Afternoon 2:44
17 The Truth Be Told 8:55
18 Afterparty – Artinelli Prepares 6:23
19 The Visit 2:50
20 Liberty 0:58
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