In April 2007, my experimental rock band/electric chamber ensemble Capital M had its second (and last) annual World Premieres Extravaganza at the now-defunct Tonic on New York’s Lower East Side. We opened with a performance of composer Ian Dicke’s Press Play!, a really cool composition fusing rock, jazz, and classical idioms just about as authentically as can be done. This was Capital M’s last performance before I left New York to attend business school, and I was feeling a little burned out at that point and never got around to uploading excerpts from the show to the website. So here, with Ian’s permission, is a Createquity exclusive: never-before-released audio from one of the last shows ever at Tonic and the last Capital M show to feature composed music.
[audio:https://createquity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pressplay1.mp3|titles=Press Play! performed by Capital M]Ian has an additional performance by his own “bandsemble,” Oogog, on his website. It’s a bit cleaner than ours, but I’d like to think the drums add something special. 🙂 I hope he’s able to get a studio recording of it someday. (Note: listen on headphones for the best effect.)