Alan Lorber Releases 21st Century Orchestra Best Of & Plans New Book & Record Series: "New York Music Story"

Well known music industry arranger/composer/producrer/artist, Alan Lorber, has released The Best of Alan Lorber-21st Century Orchestra, a compilation of selections taken from each of his previously issued albums released on the Iris Music Group label. Lorber’s 21st Century Orchestra, a virtual, computer-generated new-age symphonic orchestra, features works that include piano, sitar and other soloists and orchestra, in mixed-genre, drawn from the musical roots of cross-fusion rock, jazz, Indo, psychedelic and classical recordings Lorber created, working from the early 60’s to the present. During that period, Lorber’s brand of fusion applied to the pop and R&B markets resulted in over 60 million dollars in sales with hits by the top artists of the day.

This Volume I Best Of has the following cuts: (1) “Box-Trot”, a Jazz/Baroque fusion for piano, acoustic guitar & orchestra from the Rock-On-Line album; (2) “Garden Of Dreams” Part 1, a romantic work for sitar and orchestra on a mysterious night In The Garden Of Dreams; (3) “Gladd Raggs” from Lorber’s political Time Change album, which relates the settling of current world issues fast & sure, Texas-style; (4) “The Dream Girl”, from Prelude To The Ball, a symphonic love poem; (5) “Hour Before Dawn”, from Night Dreams, the last of a trilogy starting with Where Is Eden, a modern man’s expression of the state of the world, followed by Tomorrow Man album, a future man’s discovery that it’s just another go-around, all subjects of the darker dimensions of one’s night of dreams; (6) “Three Tango Variations” from Section III of the Questions To My Love album that states relationships are never complete, and built on six sections of intimacy; (7) “Always Remembrance”, from the 9/11 – America Suite which also includes the concert length “Aftermath”, an expressions of resolve, pride and the dangers that still lurk in the desert; (8) ”Contact-The Calling”, from Lorber’s tone-poem, Astronauts from Space –The Roswell Suite depicting the passage and landing of astronauts from space in Roswell, New Mexico on the Sun-Plant, Earth; (9) “Melancholy 1” from the Melancholy Red album, explores the two sides of melancholy, the emotional and the expressive; (10) ”Night Dream – Future-Past”, from Tomorrow Man, a symbol of man’s strength of survival and renewal; (11) “It’s Me, O’ Lord!”, from Alan Lorber’s take on the metaphoric legend of Eden in Where Is Eden?

On the pop-music side of Lorber’s discography of 2,000 recordings, he has compiled a new historical music series, Alan Lorber’s New York Music Story, which anthologizes the music and the time, which is also the “soundtrack” of his related book of the same name. Other current reissues by the Alan Lorber (live) Orchestra are his Abbey Road recordings with members of the London Symphony and Ted Heath Band—the Bob Dylan & Peter, Paul & Mary Songbooks, and his famed Indo-Jazz classic, “The Lotus Palace”. Although the 100+ compositions included in the 11 albums described here are representative of this 21st Century Orchestra series, the pieces originated as movements of extended classical works, which Lorber has reconstructed as new albums, and are a basis for live concert performance.