Bingham/ Sandoval/ Strauss - DeifiedThe National Brass Ensemble (NBE) and conductor Eun Sun Kim present Deified, an album containing music by Wagner and Strauss, as well as world premiere recordings of pieces by Jonathan Bingham and Arturo Sandoval. Bingham won the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Francisco Symphony's Emerging Black Composers Project competition with his cinematic composition Deified, while composer trumpet player Sandoval is a legend in the brass world. The

the band performed surrounded by a wide array of analogue synths controlled 'hands on' and incorporated live electric guitar and sitar into their colorful and dynamic live performances

Thanks to inventive arrangements and a masterful use of looping

cantatas for Laetare (Sunday of the Dead)

+ She has performed internationally and won numerous awards

This new album has no drums

Compiler and sleeve note writer Ian Saddler has unearthed another 28 tracks - 22 rarities and six previously unissued

After Dracula is awakened from his 100 year slumber

Brainorchestra is joined by a supporting cast that includes both Butch Dawson and Kenn Starr

and hypnotizing wordplay

With a line-up that includes members of Ironed Out

- A pupil of Dukas and a lifelong friend of Ravel

he is gradually forced to face the demons that exist both internally and within his new family