ARTIST : Jacelyn Parry
TITLE : East To West
LABEL : Concertone / Edel
GENRE : Electronic
BITRATE : 175 kbps avg
SOURCE : CD (LP)
PLAYTIME : 01:19:25
SIZE : 104.MB
STORE DATE : 2008-00-00
Track List
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1. Blue Dreaming 4:42
2. A Piece In Grey 1:23
3. Maybe It's Me 3:15
4. The Heart Sleeps 5:15
5. Grace The Mood 4:20
6. Perhaps In Time 3:14
7. Morning Light 3:18
8. Around The World 5:03
9. Love Can Begin 3:26
10. Lin Fei - The Hope Of Return 1:38
11. We'll Be Together 5:06
12. Intro 1:13
13. Ride Before Dusk 4:57
14. Moonlight Serenade 3:12
15. A Night Without A Sign 3:25
16. Inquisition Of Night 6:21
17. The Ascending Views 1:54
18. The Revival 2:33
19. Carnivale Roma 6:56
20. In A Reverie 3:58
21. We'll Be Together (Rumba) 4:16
Australian singer, songwriter, sound engineer, Jacelyn
Parry is a blend of both the East & West. Born in
Malaysia to an Australian father & a Chinese mother, she
spent her first years as a child in Singapore before
heading to Australia to complete her studies.
Jacelyn, began music at an early age, attending the
Yamaha school of music in Singapore which exposed her to
the fundamentals of music learning. From then on, she
started her lifelong passion into the world of music. She
commenced studying the piano at an early age, which
solidified her intuition for music. Often playing by ear,
she tried to emulate her own ideas & impressions of her
classical background always searching to discover a
unique atmosphere in her compositions. She was taken by
the possibility of the sound textures that her
imagination & experience could interpret & was always
surprised by the way stories could evolve from each
sound, ''the essentiality of each note, of the way the
attack and the decay on her piano could sinuously melt
into the surrounds - at first alive and then slowly
slipping back into the silence touching upon the edges of
mystery.''
''I spent many nights as a child listening closely to
music, listening intimately & trying to discover a means
to find a close understanding of what the sounds and the
melodies meant. Focusing in between the spaces and the
colors to discover interesting possibilities that arise
in my imagination.'' Drawing inspiration from life,
painting and the contemporary atmosphere of her culture
were part of the seed that gave rise to Jacelyn's
curiosity in music. Having won several prizes in Art as a
child including an art academic award in upper school,
Jacelyn was well versed in the aesthetics of the visual
and in large part has learnt to listen to music with the
colors of her imagination. As a young girl in Singapore,
she would often sneak away into the music room during her
break time in school to listen to the sounds on the
piano, playing & caressing each note that she touched, as
if a sculpture or a form she could try to capture in
paint could manifest from the simple elegance and
essentiality of the sounds.
After spending the first 16 years of her life in
Singapore, Jacelyn moved back to Australia where she
enrolled in the Queensland Conservatorium of music
whereby she was amongst the 10 students out of over 300
applicants selected to study Sonology & Music Technology.
Having discovered a new dimension to expanding her sound
vocabulary, she practiced the means of production &
recording, often working with her university colleagues
who needed demos to begin her practice of recording
techniques.
During her sojourn at the Conservatorium, Jacelyn also
began performing with a local Jazz quintet as a vocalist
practicing the many bossanova & swing standards in local
venues on a weekly basis. At the same time she was also
assisting an engineer at a recording studio on an
occasional basis. It was during this period that she
began exploring the use of technology and sound to place
her compositions. She drew from many sources of
inspiration, from classical, soundtracks, jazz,
avant-garde to electronica, dance & hip-hop. Always
finding that the meta-narrative in the diversity in music
is akin to that in the diversity of life.
After graduating, Jacelyn was accepted to intern in New
York with platinum award winning Sound Engineer &
Producer, Ken Lewis (John Legend, Kanye West, David
Byrne) as an assistant engineer. The mentoring experience
under Lewis unfolded a new confidence as she participated
in the high-end of the recording and production industry
and after 4 months, she had gained a credit on the Grammy
award winning album of Kanye Wests' 'College Dropout'.
During her time in New York, whilst at the AES
convention, she was first introduced to the world of High
Fidelity which eventually led her to Rome, Italy where
she has worked with Suono (An Italian Audiophile
magazine) interviewing the guru of Marantz, Ken Ishiwata,
at the high-end convention in Munich. From there she
began her interest in high fidelity and of how sound and
music were of the essential. She also recorded at the
Forum Music Village (Morricone, Charlie Haden) in Rome
with the Ettore Carucci Quartet assimilating a new found
approach to interpreting sound.
Having found the means to grow in her pursuit of sound &
music, she began working with local publisher Concertone
towards releasing her music, which resulted in the album
'East to West'.
Jacelyn is currently living in Rome and is working with
Concertone to develop her second release.