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For Mainframe, Mike Fuerstein writes music which draws from the pulse of New York's unrelenting urban cycles and cadences.  The compositions integrate many of his wide-ranging musical influences, layering intricate melodic fugues and minimalist phases over dense electronic textures and eclectic grooves.  All of the music features both extended through-composed and improvised sections.  After several years of painstaking writing, recording, and production work, Fuerstein has recently announced the release of Mainframe's self-titled debut on his own record label, Rad Translation Records.





NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:
 
hard copies: CD Baby
digital distribution: iTunes Music Store (requires iTunes software)
distribution on Napster, Rhapsody, and others coming soon...

tracks:

1 - Urban Phase VIII  8:15  **listen**
2 - Solar Poem  8:55  **listen**
3 - Primary Shapes & Formations  7:39  **listen**
4 - Method  7:43
5 - Electronic Dream  7:06
6 - Variations On a Ray of Light  9:28
7 - Metaphysical  7:08
(more audio available here)

all music by Mike Fuerstein (BMI)
© 2005 Rad Translation Records
all rights reserved

personnel:

Mike Fuerstein - tenor saxophone
Danny Fox - Rhodes piano/synthesizer
Ben Rubin - electric bass/effects
Mark Small - alto saxophone
Diego Voglino - drums

production:

recorded by Mike Simm at Mike Simm Studio, Brooklyn, NY
mixed by Tyler Wood at Quad Sound Studio, Cambridge, MA
mastered by Mike Fossenkemper at Turtletone Studio, NY, NY
album design by Matt Rockman

© mike fuerstein 2006