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Los Angeles Electric 8: Imagined Overtures

Los Angeles Electric 8: Imagined Overtures

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This 2009 limited edition CD release from the octet bookends re-imagined masterpieces with two premiere recordings of new music. The album begins with Peter Yates' "G-String Fetish," a spasmodic frenzy of notes that slowly unravel onto the guitar's open G-string. Concluding with Frank J. Oteri's microtonal suite, Imagined Overtures, all eight guitars re-tune sixth-tones apart to create surprisingly vibrant sonorities. Four centuries of music illustrate how the group balances adapting the old and advancing the new.

Los Angeles Electric 8: Philip Graulty, Chelsea Green, Ben Harbert, Andy Nathan, Marc Nimoy, Alexander Sack, Felix Salazar, JohnPaul Trotter.


  1. Yates: G-String Fetish
  2. Taeggio: La Porta, Canzone
  3. Gabrieli: Sonata XIII a 8
  4. Gabrieli: O Jesu Mi Dulcissime
  5. Messiaen: Louange à L'éternité de Jésus
  6. Bach: Prelude No. 14, BWV 883
  1. Bach: Fugue No. 21, BWV 886
  2. Bach: Prelude No. 8, BWV 853
  3. Bach: Fugue No. 8, BWV 853
  4. Oteri: Imagined Overtures: Natural Selection
  5. Oteri: Imagined Overtures: Intelligent Design
  6. Oteri: Imagined Overtures: Exquisite Panic