Ranula Music
03.12.08 | Oliver Lake Big Band Performs April 3rd
The Oliver Lake Large Ensemble will perform April 3rd at Roulette in Manhattan, check the itinerary page for all the details!
02.02.08 | New Photos
Lauren Riley-Rigby took some very cool photos of the band at the show last week in Brooklyn, click the gallery page to view. You should also check out her very cool myspace page...
01.03.08 | Sabin Group to appear in Brooklyn!
The Sabin Group will make a rare appearance at the Brooklyn Lyceum's Sunday Concert series hosted by Chris Komer. See the itinerary page for details!
01.02.08 | Romero included as Best of 2007
Troy Collins of All About Jazz has included Romero as a new discovery best CD of 2007.
01.02.08 | Air Play
Brian Turner, Bill Mac, and Scott Williams of WFMU have been featuring tracks from Romero on their shows over at wfmu. WFMU is perhaps the greatest radio station in America, completely listener supported and free form. Thanks to them for their support! Check them out and make a pledge at www.wfmu.org!
11.08.07 | New Reviews
New reviews for the album have been coming in, check out Mark Turner's All About Jazz Review published today.
10.08.07 | "Romero" Featured at All About Jazz
Robert Sabin will be featured all month at All About Jazz as "Romero" is one of the showcased titles for the month of October. Check it out at www.allaboutjazz.com.
08.28.07 | New Album Released!
The new CD is finally available! Click the link to purchase, leave a review, and listen to more tracks!
08.15.07 | Ranulamusic.com is Back! NEW CD FINISHED!!
Welcome to the re-launch of ranulamusic.com! We hope you enjoy the new look.
The new CD "ROMERO" is finished (finally) and should be up at CD Baby by next week.
I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Richard Rubenstein and Jim Dudelson, who own the rights to Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, respectively, for letting me use the clips on the record. This CD will be a limited run, so once it’s gone it isn’t going to be rising from the grave anytime soon…
This recording represents a year of watching and re-watching exclusively the films of George A. Romero.
Having been familiar with most of his work from an early age (a local video store let me rent Creepshow when I was 9), I became re-obsessed with Romero’s work in 2005 when I discovered the director’s commentary track to Day of the Dead. The insights provided by Mr. Romero and Mr. Savini illuminated central characteristics of Mr. Romero’s work; the appetite necessary when undertaking of a piece of art, the joy of independent creativity, the ability to be central to a project while allowing for other individuals to fill in essential elements of it’s structure, flying without a net, and the fearless spirit and joy in this process. These seemed as important in the end as the work itself.
This fundamental focus on process drew an immediate parallel to personal musical influences, whose process was often as essential and provocative as the music itself.
Furthermore, the beauty and depth of Mr. Romero’s work in his Living Dead films were the direct inspiration for this music. In Romero’s world, zombie’s are not the main characters in the films, but the backdrop for the true horror of his stories; Man’s inability to work with one another despite an apocalyptic crisis, and the ugliness of the human condition in the face of his own demise. The terror is the transformation displayed of the few moral characters in the films, the ones that still display the dimming light of humanity’s promise in the midst of a ravenous community of jackals. Indeed, by the later films the undead we’re becoming recognizable as more human than their non flesh-eating counterparts.
The visceral elements of the genre, the profanity and virtuosic goregasms supplied by Tom Savini were but the relief and the respite for the viewer of these tales. Stories where destructive impulses, ignorance, and mistrust are manifested in the slow ever-present ghouls, and even more so in the evils of those not yet devoured. The undead do not need to run in this place where even helicopters cannot fly you far enough away to a to find a happy ending.
The band:
Robert Sabin bass
Mark Stanley guitar
Brian Griffin drums
Russ Johnson trumpet
Jason Rigby tenor and soprano saxophones
Produced by Robert Sabin
Recorded October 15th, 2006 at Mountain Rest Studio, New Paltz New York
Engineered and recorded by Jay Anderson
Mixed by Jay Anderson
Additional Mixing and Mastering by Mark Stanley
Compositions by Robert Sabin Ranula Music (ASCAP) except “Zombi” composed by Goblin for the film Dawn of the Dead Obo Bixio Music Group, BMG Songs Inc.
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