Orlando musician LITHOBREA has released
a first full-length album, “Edifice,” as the flagship start to a
stunning career.
LITHOBREA [caps intentional] is the art
of a single mind in Orlando, Florida, who has released a first
full-length album as the flagship start to a stunning career. The
music is fully orchestrated at the classical level of Hollywood's
best music scores, vivid and lush, and easily coaxes the listener to
forget that the piece is almost entirely digital. The sound is
ethereal yet sharp, soothing yet snaring, and unique enough to ensure
LITHO's place among a growing base of do-it-yourself masterminds in
the new world of independent music production.
“Edifice” itself is an LP
collection of LITHOBREA's ten best tracks to date. The title track,
“Edifice,” sounds like crystal shards falling through a
kaleidoscopic stratosphere. “Underworld” evokes pictures of
astronauts spelunking the subterranean wonderlands of alien locales.
Each movement is singular from its successors and antecedents without
seeming out of place, and the dizzying variety of melody lines and
percussion motifs has much more in common with classical music than
it does with modern techno.
Naturally, LITHOBREA acknowledges the
great composers as influences: Rachmaninoff,
Sibelius, Liszt,
and Vangelis
being chief among them. However, the album will almost certainly
resemble more modern artists to most music fans. Philip Glass comes
to mind as the most famous example of a marriage between classical
and digital music, but the sound itself is much more akin to Yes's
“Tales from Topographic Oceans.” LITHOBREA sites also German
techno artist Kraftwerk as an influence.
LITHOBREA
is no newcomer, however, having been composing music since the age of
nine. Much of these earlest cuts were hammered out on an old
keyboard, though several instruments followed. Of this
experimentation LITHO says, “What I didn't have I borrowed and
sampled. I liked making unnatural sound effects
with mic'ed-up classical instruments, amplifiers and effect
paddles.” Basic engineering followed, as well as the first
computer-friendly music studio. “Over time,” says LITHOBREA, “my
sound and song making mixed together,
and as my technical knowledge grew,
I began perfecting my music with digital audio workstations.”
The
result (not to say end-result) is this crowning achievement,
“Edifice,” available online everywhere.
The LP “Edifice” is
distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
ARTIST
CONTACT INFO:
lithobrea@gmail.com
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