Rap Symphony 2.0, by David Chesky

Rap Symphony 2.0

by David Chesky

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Songs for a Broken World, Abreu Danzas, España, Rap Symphony 2.0, Trio in the New Harmonic: Aural Paintings, Piano Concertos 2&3, The Spanish Poems, Venetian Concertos, and 18 more. , and , .

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1.	Rap Symphony (featuring Mike Two & Leber as the rappers) 19:14
2.	Street Beats (for percussion quartet) 09:09	buy track
3.	Central Park Dances: Dance No. 1 06:45	buy track
4.	Central Park Dances: Dance No. 2 04:56	buy track
5.	Central Park Dances: Dance No. 3 04:56	buy track

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New York composer David Chesky looks at the underbelly of America and fuses Rap with the most complex symphonic work he has ever written.

The Rap Symphony 2.0 is about a transitional society, a society that is shifting from the word to the image. Our civilization once used to believe in depth and reading and art; now abstract thought is changing into a simplistic, superficial society where one is consumed with the quick social media fix. It's all lightness of being today. We don't celebrate anticipation anymore, people don't want to put the time in. This symphony is about the collapse of that whole ethos. The phrase in the lyrics that says 'kill the philharmonic' doesn't mean that literally. It's a metaphor for a society that has no use for the philharmonic. We're losing these things. Pretty soon John Coltrane and Miles Davis, along with all jazz and classic music, will become museum pieces. We used to have a culture that cherished these, but in a super simplistic society, there's just no room for them.

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released October 26, 2018

All songs by David Chesky - Pamaluc Music, ASCAP

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David Chesky New York, New York

David Chesky is a GRAMMY-nominated American pianist, composer, producer, arranger, film maker, and co-founder of the independent, audiophile label Chesky Records.

Chesky is considered a technological innovator with his work in binarual and high resolution audio.

Chesky has won Independent Music Awards and received Grammy nominations for his jazz, classical, opera, and experimental rap music. ... more

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