Hall of Flowers / The Flame of Ambition

by Philip Perkins

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1.	Hall of Flowers 20:31	buy track
2.	The Flame of Ambition 04:02	buy track
3.	Father's Day 02:14	buy track
4.	Machinations 01:38	buy track
5.	Party 03:17	buy track
6.	Worrisome Fanfare/Weekend With The Kids 03:25	buy track
7.	At The Bar 03:24	buy track
8.	Out in the Lobby 01:09	buy track
9.	Closing the Big Deal 02:43	buy track
10.	Taking the Stairs 03:15	buy track
11.	A Dream of Failure 05:11	buy track
12.	Talk/Exit (for Corazon Aquino) 06:48	buy track

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HALL OF FLOWERS / THE FLAME OF AMBITION Fun 1005 1988

HALL OF FLOWERS (#1) is a work for radio broadcast. The piece moves through a tremendous variety of sound material configured around a single multirhythmic "cell".

THE FLAME OF AMBITION (#s2-12) a collection of short, mostly melodic works about what ambition causes (or enables) people to do. The title refers to the "burning" nature of ambition within those who are literally being consumed by it.

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released January 1, 1988

Composed and performed by Philip Perkins
Cover image by Roberto Soncin Germoetta
HALL OF FLOWERS contains a documentary style re-recording of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (1936)

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Philip Perkins San Francisco, California

Mentored by "Blue" Gene Tyranny and The Residents in music composition and performance, member of The Residents performance ensemble 1979-84. Releases1979-2020 on the Fun Music, Artifact, CHoon SubCity and Captured Tracks labels. In The Bifurcators with Scott Fraser 1973--2008. Sound Designer for Alonzo King LINES Ballet since 2012; co-composer of Alonzo King’s ballet Figures of Speech. ... more

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