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San Francisco Bay Area drum star Scott Amendola composed Fade To Orange after receiving a prestigious commission Sent from my mobile device Irvine Foundation-funded New Visions/New Vistas project. The roiling work premiered to critical acclaim at Oakland s Paramount Theater on April 15, 2011. Determined to refine and document the piece, he conducted a successful PledgeMusic crowd-funding campaign and recorded Fade To Orange at Berkeley s storied Fantasy Studios with his original collaborators Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and powerhouse bassist Trevor Dunn and the great Magik*Magik Orchestra. Fade to Orange is slated for release on CD and Vinyl on Amendola s label Sazi Records on June 2nd, 2015.It took several years of planning, rewriting and reorchestrating, but Amendola ended up assembling a dreamteam in the studio. Working with Minna Choi s Magik*Magik Orchestra conducted by Cheche Alara, he augmented the 12-piece string section with all-star winds featuring clarinet master Ben Goldberg, ROVA saxophonist Steve Adams on flute, Santana trombonist Jeff Cressman, veteran trumpeter Rich Armstrong, and versatile French hornist Heidi Trefethen. Percussion legend William Winant provides an array of textures and grooves on marimba, glockenspiel, timpani, concert bass drum, and tubular bells. In many ways Fade to Orange represents a left turn for Amendola, who has spent the past five years stripping his music down to essentials. A groove master known for collaborating with many of jazz s greatest improvisers, he s logged tens of thousands of miles on the road in recent years with seven-string guitar wizard Charlie Hunter in a tough and sinewy duo. Fade to Orange reverses his trajectory. Rather than subtracting musical elements, his most ambitious composition yet builds on the volatile Nels Cline Singers, an instrumental trio with well-traveled bassist Trevor Dunn, who gained notoriety for his work in the experimental Bay Area band Mr. Bungle, and Cline, a hair-raising improviser widely revered as a supremely generous collaborator.