Echoes of the Silent Fountain

Echoes of the Silent Fountain CD
Traditional Italian mandolin music with twin harmony mandolins, guitar, and upright bass. A tribute to the music of Matteo Casserino and Gino DiMichele Read About Echoes of the Silent Fountain

Mandolin Mandalas CD

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Free Improvisations in Imitation of Classical Indian Music with Tanpura and Tabla

Mandolin Mezzotints

(1991)

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This downloadable CD has six original acoustic instrumentals by Phil Lawrence. Radim Zenkl, the world-renowned Czech mandolinist, appears as a guest, adding his sublime artistry to the project. Joe Yamamoto from the legendary Japanese band The Nessi Expedition, plays both guitar and violin on this recording. Piper Heisig from Cats and Jammers plays the upright bass. Other guests include Tony Marcus, also from The Cats and Jammers on violin, Jean Jacques Vergnaud on guitar, and Bill Foss on bass. Truly an assembly of some of the best musicians in the San Francisco area, this recording offers a variety of musical genres and styles.

The CD opens with “From the Heart,” an ethereal ballad, followed by “Katie's Tune,” a jazz waltz. “The Watertower” suggest beauty, sorrow, and affection. In “Tulip Blossoms” Phil, Tony Marcus, Jean-Jacques Vergnaud, and Bill Foss take a simple melody and weave complex improvisations in G minor. “Elegy” adds a reminder of sorrow and defiance, with Radim Zenkl, Joe Yamamoto, and Phil Lawrence soloing over a slow minor waltz, and then a rapid rhythmical second part in four four time. “Hava's Tune” is a beautiful waltz in A major. The mandola adds a rich lower harmony to this melody. This CD was recorded in Oakland in 1990, shortly after the earthquake at an eight track analog studio, and in 1981 & 1983 at John Blakeley's Duncan Street Studio in San Francisco. It was mastered by Paul White in Sebastopol. The cover art reveals the true interior of the towers that hold up the Golden Gate Bridge, a secret that only avid mandolin players know, but which we now share with the rest of the grateful world.

 

Singles

The Purple Rose	When Mandolins Weep

Limehouse Blues with David Grisman and Tracy Bigelow

at the Petaluma High School Library

You Tube Videos of Phil Lawrence and his Bands

It's A Beautiful Day Acoustic Sample Audios

w/David LaFlamme from It's a Beautiful Day on Violin & Vocals (Recorded March 2012)

Bee Samba

Don and Dewey

Hot Summer Day

When Mandolins Weep

The Purple Rose

Dolphin Song

The Gecko Waltz

God Bless the Child

 

Elegy with Valerie Marshall on cello and Sonia Tubridy on piano

Recorded November 2011

Phil Lawrence with The Windshield Cowboys including David Grisman and John Allair "On the Road"

YouTube Video with The Windshield Cowboys

 

Manoir de Mes Reves Live @ The French Garden 10/25/08 with Paul Gruen, guitar, and Michael Price, bass

Listen to The DLT 3 (Phil's Former Band) Recording from 2005-2008

Minor Swing (instrumental)

Manoir de Mes Reves (instrumental)

Queen Bee (Original Composition by Phil Lawrence--instrumental)

Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You (StephenTamborski--vocals, guitar)

When Mandolins Weep (Original Composition by Phil Lawrence--dedicated to Chip Dunbar--instrumental)

Elegy (Original Composition by Phil Lawrence--instrumental)

Devorah's Swing (Original Composition by Phil Lawrence--instrumental)

Autumn Leaves (instrumental)

Like Young (instrumental)

Europa (instrumental)

As Time Goes By (instrumental)

Dark Eyes (instrumental)

Willow Weep for Me (instrumental)

Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (instrumental)

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (instrumental)

Got Cool Too Soon (StephenTamborski--vocals, guitar)

Dinah Audio Recorded Live @ The French Garden 4/11/08 complete with authentic ambient "noise".

Cheek to Cheek Audio Recorded Live @ The French Garden 4/25/08 complete with authentic ambient "noise".

As Time Goes By Audio Recorded Live @ The French Garden 4/11/08 complete with authentic ambient "noise".

Deed I Do Audio Recorded Live @ The French Garden 4/11/08 complete with authentic ambient "noise".

View a Video of The Phil Lawrence Band Playing "Lover Man"