FYC – 2024
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IRIDESCENCE
(Total running time: 37 minutes) |
IRIDESCENCE
Even in today’s ever-burgeoning music industry, it is uncommon to find a serious composer with real pop music credentials or a pop musician with academic awards and published concert music. Composer Louis Anthony deLise is such a unique individual. He has arranged and conducted for R & B songstress, Patti LaBelle and last year was awarded a highly prestigious Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Now, composer deLise is releasing his sixth album of original compositions, Iridescence, featuring Grammy®– winner, oboist and composer, Nancy Rumbel, along with cellist Vivian Barton Dozor, of the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra, John McMurtery, flutist with the Las Vagas Philharmonic, and Celtic World Orchestra guitarist, Bruce McFarland.
The album includes nine new compositions, with one, the title track, “Iridescence,” cowritten with Nancy Rumbel. While most critics classify deLise’s music as “New Age” or “neoclassical,” deLise prefers, “post-genre,” as his recordings usually include elements of pop, classical, New Age, and West Coast cool jazz of the 1960s.
Reviews and Awards
- “Best New Age Contemporary Instrumental Song” New Age Notes Radio Music Awards 2024
- “Iridescence will for sure become a modern classic!” –Bjørn Tore Fasmer, New Age Music Guide
- “Iridescence is Louis Anthony deLise’s fourth album of original works … and what a masterpiece it is! Warm, reflective and often very soothing … the perfect antidote to the chaos the world is currently enduring … offering hope, comfort and room to breathe.” –Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com
- “Intimate, intricate, and captivating, Iridescence charms, delights and entertains the very soul.” –Jan Mawdesley, Blue Wolf Reviews.
- “Captivatingly brilliant, just like its name…mesmerizing and tantalizing in its ever-changing melodic hues.” –Dyan Garris, NewAgeCD.com and NewAgeNotes.com