BAROCK by Eight Two BAROCK is four Baroque arias arranged for a five-piece rock ensemble with modernized lyrics. Red Love "Regne, Amour" - Aria from Pigmalion Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) Dad "Schafe Können Sicher Weiden" - Aria from BWV 208 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Lift Her "Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies" - Aria from Jeptha, HWV 70 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Where You Walk "Where’er You Walk" - Aria from Semele, HWV 58 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Recorded live on March 27 2015 in Brooklyn Misha Bittleston: Vocals Rafaël Leloup: Accordion Adam Benham: Drums Jacob Owen: Guitar Aiden Moore: Bass Todd Carder: Recording Engineer, The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn Mark Wilder: Mastering Engineer, Battery Studios, New York Concept, Lyrics, Production and Artwork by Misha Bittleston Arrangement and Music Direction by Rafaël Leloup Project Coordination and Design by Aja Marsh Very special thanks to Tommy Wazelle for vocal support and Chris Mirto for being there. After all the years it took to make the last record, I wanted to try an experiment in expediency. Could Eight Two put out a short unpolished record in a matter of weeks or just a few months? I had felt embarrassed about my love for baroque music, but somehow Jimi helped me make the leap. I asked my friend Rafael Leloup to arrange four Baroque arias for rock ensemble, I rewrote the words so I could feel natural singing them as myself. We had two rehearsals in Brooklyn and then we showed up at 10am and recorded, all playing and me singing together, no overdubs. Playing together was stressful, but emotional and each take was a messy performance. We played music, and in between takes there was some fun and magical improvisation, the energy was that what each of us put in, would be there. I wanted to make the mix as unproduced as possible. No tricks. But not being able to rely on post production to fix and improve things made it a high pressure experience. Here I was taking a huge leap. Who was I to record these timeless arias? But with Rafael’s arrangements they quickly took shape and we each played the songs in a way that was natural to us as contemporary musicians, the musicality of these compositions on the one side and our rock music sensibility on the other, we walk a fine line. Why do this project? It is a challenge-- everyone who worked on it felt that. ℗ & © 2015 Electric Diving School/Tenderghost (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Licensed with permission from: Electric Diving School Music. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. WARNING: Unauthorized reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance, and broadcasting of this recording is prohibited by Federal law, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and the Universal Copyright Convention, and subject to criminal prosecution.