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Town Mouse, Country Mouse

from 52 Weeks Of Downloads by Wayne Horvitz

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In the spirit of the Holidays, and children, this week’s free download is two excerpts from "Town Mouse, Country Mouse".

Commissioned by the Seattle Children's Festival in 2001, it was the closest I ever came to writing a musical. Todd Jefferson Moore wrote the book, and I wrote the music, and also the lyrics to all the songs.

Featuring Reggie Watts (as town mouse), and Danny Barnes (as country mouse), the narrative took the original story but made the mice musicians, and the whole show was a musical journey through American musical styles. For the shows, it was just the three of us, with myself on organ and piano, Danny on banjo and guitar, and Reggie on keyboards and beat boxing.

The idea was that Reggie hears about Danny's virtuosity through television, and decides to visit him in the country, which he finds he does not care for, and he convinces Danny to come to NYC (which Danny learns to hate) and they pursue a career as a duo, including shopping for a record deal and even performing at the Knitting Factory for "industry" hot shots, whom, of course, in this scenario are all cats. You get the idea.

In the end the decide to go back to the places they love, but they stay friends.

The first song is Danny singing about his humble abode, then we skip forward to Reggie singing about the virtues of life in the big city.

This recording came from a sort of demo version we made after the performances.

In addition to Reggie, Danny and myself the musicians are: Keith Lowe - Bass, Bill Frisell - Guitar, and Andy Roth on drums.

Some day soon we will release all 8 tracks digitally on the website.

I hope you enjoy the music and the best for the holidays and a Happy New Year.

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from 52 Weeks Of Downloads, track released December 15, 2015

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Wayne Horvitz

Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist and electronic musician. In addition to his own work, he is known for his work with Butch Morris, Robin Holcomb, John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Bill Frisell, Sara Schoenbeck, Ron Miles, Peggy Lee, and William Parker just to name a few. ... more

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