Oxingale Records is proud to announce the release of "Shuffle.Play.Listen"

Cellist Matt Haimovitz & Pianist Christopher O'Riley Release Shuffle.Play.Listen – a Boldly Imaginative Double-Album That Blurs the Boundaries Dividing Classical and Pop – now available online and in-stores

Shuffle.Play.Listen unites ground-breaking, Grammy-nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz with pianist Christopher O Riley, host of NPR and PBS s popular weekly radio and television series, From the Top, in a collaboration that blurs the boundaries between classical and pop music. Two performers, each a superstar in his own right, come together to plumb the virtuosic and lyrical possibilities of their instruments in an expansive 2-CD set from Oxingale Records.

Disc 1 features Igor Stravinsky s neo-classical Suite Itallienne, Leos Janacek s Fairy Tale, Bohuslav Martinu's Variations on a Slovak Folksong and Astor Piazzolla's Grand Tango, all interwoven with an arresting new arrangement of Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo film score, celebrating the composer s 100 birthday this year.

Disc 2 kicks off with Empty Room from the 2011 Grammy winning Album of the Year by Arcade Fire, and follows up with tracks by Blond Redhead, the Cocteau Twins, Radiohead, and more Arcade Fire, as well as supergroup A Perfect Circle s hit song 3 Libras and a jaw dropping rendition of John McLaughlin s Dance of Maya. All the arrangements for cello and piano were made with O Riley s signature passion and finesse, and realized with Haimovitz s uncompromising artistic depth. The pair display their considerable improvisational skills in several tunes, including their 9-minute un-cut interpretation of McLaughlin s A Lotus on Irish Strems.

Inside the package, New York Times best-selling author Dan Levitin (This is your Brain on Music), interviews Haimovitz and O Riley on the making of Shuffle.Play.Listen.

One of the most anticipated collaborations of the 2011-2012 season, Haimovitz and O Riley will tour extensively in major concert series and university residencies throughout throughout the US. In addition, each continues to tour exhaustively as a solo artist in recital and as concerto soloist.

Shuffle.Play.Listen embraces a new kind of listening public who mix Wagner with Lady Gaga on their iPods, exploring new sounds and moving comfortably between genres. While Classical lovers will be drawn to CD1, more adventurous listeners will thrill to CD2, and both will want to shuffle, play and listen!

Oxingale Records is proud to announce

Matt Haimovitz & Uccello’s Meeting of the Spirits

2010 GRAMMY NOMINATION
for
Best Classical Crossover Album

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The album that The Montreal Gazette called “one of the most original and compelling jazz albums in recent memory” has now been nominated for a 2010 GRAMMY AWARD for Best Classical Crossover Album. Matt Haimovitz and his all-cello band Uccello’s Meeting of the Spirits features jazz milestones re-imagined for a big band of cellos, arranged by Rome Prize-winning composer David Sanford. The cellos wail, slide, and swing in an all-new big band sound - joined by dazzling musical contributions from guitar legend John McLaughlin, percussionist Matt Wilson and Jan Jarczyk on keyboards - in works by Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu), Miles Davis, Billy Strayhorn and other jazz greats.

JazzWax praises the album’s "deft dramatic beauty" while NPR.org says that “This agile band of players, led by such a free spirit, makes almost everything sound fresh." Ariama.com calls the album “entirely winning … a terrific, and terrifically fun, release.” The CD is now being featured on over 100 radio stations across North America.

Recorded at McGill's Schulich School of Music MMR studio in Montreal and at the legendary Stadium Red in Harlem, NY, Meeting of the Spirits is produced by multi-Grammy Award winner David Frost, also nominated for Producer of the Year, Classical for his work on this album and others.

Oxingale Music has published the sheet music for the pieces on Meeting of the Spirits. Please visit oxingalemusic.com to learn more and order sheet music.