Nicole Mitchell / Lisa Harris E. - EarthseedThe work of award winning African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler becomes increasingly prophetic as we move through the challenges of the new century. Her novels Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1996) use fiction to illuminate a horrific unraveling of 21st century America into a despotic chaos where it's once middle class citizens struggle to survive in an incredibly violent and fragmented reality, void of

Israeli American pianist Ran Dank makes a convincing case for pairing the two composers

" is Los Angeles's leading new-music pianist

This mixture of dark and ambiguous topics

wrote music filled with beauty

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12 in C sharp minor by another piano virtuosos Ferenc Liszt

Oskar Ekberg grew up in Sweden where he began studying piano at age six

It is thought he died during the 1930s

This is the first ever collection of popular music adaptations of Sacred Harp songs

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As she relates in the booklet to the disc

This is how this album featuring trios and songs by these two expressionistic composers came about - and it is filled with expressive power