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Music I maintain total control over the production process. Tim Turan also plays with me in Aquabats and in other bands. This continuity means that my recordings offer integrity and quality. My electro-acoustic compositions offer a remarkable organic synergy between new and traditional technologies. My flute playing is augmented by electronic treatments, creating a unique ambience. If you hear me perform live, you will realise that I apply technology as I play. A studio recording is the same as a live performance. Both offer a fluent level of sophistication and an easy-going rapport with the latest digital advances. I really can do it all live. My recordings are crystal clear expressions of my work as an artist who bridges the traditional and the digitally-enhanced. Who enjoys my music? My recordings and music delight many people. They are extremely popular with people who enjoy the gently modulated harmony of ambient, mood or new age music. These recordings also prove popular with therapists and complementary medicine practices of many kinds as well as with people who are looking to find tranquility in their lives. My CDs sell to a very wide range of people of different ages and cultures. Please contact me if you would like to enquire about my live performances. +44 (0)1865 721277 FZ2 Giselle (1996) Track: Currently unavailable
The music on this CD was recorded live in a single session at Merton College Chapel, Oxford. Review of 'Giselle' Another delight for the fan of flute music, and particularly the discerning ear that demands something creative and original. Frei Zinger achieves a tapestry of wonders with his flute on this disc, using echo, reverb and delay, he often gains the image of a small ensemble, with a music that is both mysteriously haunting and purely melodic. A careful balance that's held throughout the album's four lengthy tracks. Though much more involved and imaginative than anything the likes of Paul Horn or James Newton would do, it's a shame that Frei's music isn't more well-known. Naturally, if he had someone like Kuchuck behind him then perhaps he would be. The music world is not fair at all. Alan
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to some sounds FZ1 Floyd's Dreams (1994) Track: Donald's Dream The music on this CD is a one-take recording; as close as possible to a live performance.
FZ3 Seasons (1997) Track: Spring
The music on this album was recorded live in a single session at Oxford University's Holywell Music Room.
FZ4 Songlines (1999) Track: currently unavailable
The music on this album was recorded live in a single session at Oxford University's Holywell Music Room.
FZ5 Flute Dreams(1999) Track: Wheatley Park
The music on this album was commissioned by Midpoint Press and recorded live in a single session at Turan Audio, Magdalen Road, Oxford. Flute Dreams is both a sampler and a re-recording of numbers from the preceding 4 CDs. All five CDs are quite different from one another. If you like one, you will love the others. frei@freizinger.demon.co.uk |
Giselle
is an album of portraits and emotions. The title track is about my grandmother
who escaped the holocaust by fleeing from Vienna to Budapest. I didn't
meet her before her death and so this music is an imaginary narrative
of her life of fun and sadness. Shen's Song
is dedicated to a sixteenth century Chinese healer who travelled from
village to village practising his arts. The story was recounted to me
by another healer sharing the same name who resides in Oxfordshire close
to the River Thames. Yearnin' is about
universal loss and love. Birds at Sunset
takes the listener to an imaginary landscape of light and stillness. I
hope you enjoy the album.
1993
was a very sad year for me. Within 2 months I had lost 2 close friends
- my father and John Blackwood. My father died suddenly of a heart attack
- just 3 days after his 70th birthday. John struggled bravely for 2 months
with a brain tumor. John left me a generous bequest of £5000, and
it with this money that I have been able to produce the album 'Floyds
Dream'. The album is named after a friend unfortunately languishing in
Broadmoor Hospital. I visit him regularly and asked him recently what
his dream was. He replied simply - "To be
somewhere warm with people I love". These words have stayed
with me ever since.
Seasons
is an album of complete relaxation telling the simple tale of the year's
natural cycle. It begins with the exuberance of a sparkling spring and
ends with the stark beauty of a glistening winter. In between, the seasons
of summer and autumn are expressed in terms of warmth and optimism moving
to stillness as the last leaves begin to fall. Throughout, I have tried
to harmonise my music with the year's seasons. I hope that I have succeeded
in this aim and that you enjoy the album.
Songlines
is an album of journeys both real and imaginary. It begins with a portrait
of my great aunt Erzsi laying eight
stones on a grave on the 'Frei Zinger' family memorial in Vienna - relatives
lost to us in the holcaust. Maes-Yr-Haf,
in contrast, is the happy song of my mother's childhood in rural mid-Wales.
Set in summer meadows, Blue Mountain
portrays the majesty of an enduring landscape just one and a half hours
from Sydney, Australia. Finally, May Dance
brings us back to Oxford and the boisterous and fun-loving birth of summer
celebrations that take place every May morning.
Flute
Dreams
is an album of relaxation. The eight tracks are selected to form a tranquil
and harmonious experience. The listener is invited to embark on a musical
journey through landscapes real and imaginary. Enter the world of "flute
dreams" - the gentle sounds of a magic flute.