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5/9/2008 6:51:13 PM - The new Eclectica CD "Streaming Video Soul" is still at the manufacturing plant and will ship within the month. Thanks for your patience!

Thanks to bronze participant Melanie Watson!

"The greatest living exponent of the electric violin."
--BBC Radio

"Silverman is in a class of his own."
--Mark Swed, LA TImes

"What informs almost every bar of the work is the blazing virtuosity of Tracy Silverman, playing a six-string electric violin. Listen to Silverman flinging seagull-like spirals and caws over Adams' big and busy symphonic apparatus in the ecstatic finale and you will be astonished that anybody can play the fiddle like that."
--John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

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Excerpts from "The Dharma at Big Sur"
Excerpts from "The Dharma at Big Sur". Composed by John Adams for Tracy and premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the opening of Disney Concert Hall. The newly released Nonesuch recording featues Tracy Silverman, electric violin with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams, conductor.

"Tracy has developed his own unique style of violin playing--a marvel of expressiveness"
--Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winning composer John Adams
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3/8/2008 - Blog March 8
hey gang

i'm in dallas today. last night i was performing with the dallas symphony and jim brickman at the beautiful myerson symphony center to a sold out house. we'll do it again tonight and a 3rd sold out show on sunday. conductor danail rachev is a joy to work with and the symphony sounds spectacular. i have the whole day to myself here in dallas today and will i hit the uptown restaurants and shops? will i revisit the grassy knoll and browse the various raving conspiracy theory kooks out there with their pamphlets? will i catch a movie? no--i'll be here in my hotel room disturbing my neighbors by practicing all day for my upcoming concerts in adelaide, australia. i leave monday--arrive wed. i'll be there for 5 days doing 2 shows and a workshop at the adelaide festival: a solo 1-man show and then john adams' electric violin concerto "the dharma at big sur" as the closing...
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Streaming Video Soul--the new CD by Eclectica

The recording of the new Eclectica CD is a true product of improvisation. The 3 musicians had never played together before. They recorded their first 2 jam sessions and from those sessions culled the best ideas and organized them into songs. Then they booked the best studio in Nashville and in one afternoon recorded the basic tracks of 6 tunes. Next those takes (about 3 for each song) were edited and then lyrics written and vocals recorded. Then the music was mixed to 1/2 inch tape for audiophile retro analog quality. And the finished product is now available for you to hear.
What the press is saying about Tracy
"The Greatest Living Exponent of the Electric Violin"
BBC Radio

"A showcase for the astonishing virtuosity of jazz electric violinist Tracy Silverman"
Andrew Clements, The Guardian

"played with fleet agility and tangy expressivity"
Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
As you check out my new site you'll see a couple of new ArtistShare terms: Project Experience & Participant Offer.

The Project Experience is my current project, in this case the recording of my new Eclectica CD. (Eclectica is my band.) It includes all the behind-the-scenes and making-of-the-CD stuff, but not the actual CD. The current Project Experience comes free with all the Participant Offers.

There are a variety of Participant Offers available for sale. These include the upcoming Eclectica CD, my recent "I'd Rather Be Dreaming" CD, a Live Concert, online Violin Lessons and Composition Lessons and other opportunities for you to share not only my musical product but my musical process as well. You get outtakes, exclusive diaries, interviews, pdf's of musical sketches, rehearsal clips--all kinds of goodies you can't get just by buying a CD.

The Bronze, Silver and Gold levels are for generous supporters of my music who help me fund the recording of the new CD, (which allows me to retain creative control of my music.) These levels include all the items of other offers as well as other exclusive and valuable items.

Please email info@tracysilverman.com if you have any questions.
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Eclectica CD Mail Order Participant
My Eclectica CD participant offer is an incredible value and an easy way for you to be involved with me and my music. You get the finished “Eclectica” CD (Delivery Date April 1, 2008), a mixed bag of behind-the-scenes goodies and bonuses, in depth...