Indianapolis,
Indiana (Top40 Charts/ Doreen D'Agostino Media) - Concert Violinist and New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musician, Patmore Lewis' new projects grew out of his passion for today's contemporary pop music and contemporary music of the past and a strong desire to demonstrate the similarities of the past and the present with an eye to the future.
Patmore wrote the music and lyrics for the new cd and directed the mythically nuanced video of the song "Image" which contains a wealth of symbolism revealing the struggle between good and evil, love and hate, and war and peace, the primal urges that effect life on our blue planet
The Compositions, originally scheduled for release on Sony Classical, are based on musical themes going as far back as the 13th Century: They are:
Track 1: "Lookin' For the 1" (Medieval Influence)
Track 2: "Whatz Next" (16th Century Motet by Adriaan Willaert (Flemmish)
Track 3: "Sine On Da Dotted" (Influenced by Robert Schumann (19th Century)
Track 4: "Your Love's So Warm" (from Mozart's famous Clarinet Quintet) (18th Century)
Track 5: "Freestyle" (improvisation/urban influenced)
Track 6: "Innalyfetyme" (Arnold Schoenberg 19/20th Century)
Track 7: "Yule B Part of Me "The Christmas Concerto" (Arcangelo Corelli) (the great
17th Century Italian Violinist & Composer)
Track 8: "Image", written and produced by Patmore Lewis which is also the music
video from the album. (Contemporary African Urban influence).
Track 9: "Da Capo" (13 Century Motet, anonymous)
Track 10: "Bach" (17th Century)
Track 11: "Then U Change" (Influenced by Claude Debussy (French,19/20th Century - written by Patmore Lewis)
Track 12: "Freestyle 2" (improvisation)
Track 13: "Welcome" Henry Purcell (The great 17th Century English Composer frequently compared to Mozart).
Patmore Lewis was born in St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. As a boy, he sang and played piano and organ in church. Growing up in the home of his father's sister, a formidable disciplinarian, he took up the violin as an act of rebellion, soon gaining recognition throughout the Caribbean for his skills on that instrument. Today, he plays upwards of 100 performances a year as an associate in the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera. At the same time, he keeps up his career as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States and Europe. Since his Carnegie Hall concert debut in November 1992, Pat has appeared on live radio broadcasts on NPR, nationally with the incomparable Jessye Norman, as well as with Henry Threadgill's Jazz Windstring Ensemble. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a rare Amati violin for display, Pat was selected to perform for specially invited patrons. He has also performed at New York's Town Hall, The Kitchen, Soho Galleries, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Library of Congress and Summer Stage in Central Park. To the astonishment of his colleagues in the classical camp, Pat is much sought after by top artists in hip-hop as a producer, studio musician, sideman, and songwriter.
In 2008, Patmore an environmental activist and concerned about the effects of global climate change that is at long last acknowledged across all political and scientific spectrums, teamed together with "The Rillito River Project", founded in January, 2007. The non-profit organization fuses art and science to create ephemeral environmental installations and performance art events on a dry riverbed site in Arizona. Their aim is to bring artists together to work on projects that raise awareness of the devastating effects of global climate change on the vanishing rivers of the Southwest. Patmore, passionately composed and recorded a piece of music titled "Elemental Flow" in which he crafted a musical story as old as creation, emanating from the riverbed site where the story is still unfolding. The music video "Image" reinforces the awareness of the different social and environmental competing forces.
