Album Notes

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Composer/ Producer/ Musician Les Fradkin stirs the senses with this special 3 song EP- "Together For The World".

"Together", is the Radio Plug A-Side with Words & Music by songwriting team Les Fradkin and Loretta Pieper Fradkin. "Together" features guest harmony vocals from RRO Entertainment artist Amber Gomez (formerly of Venus In Bluejeans). With it's U2/Bono styled production, "Together" offers a potent message for today: "Together, we'll all be One, one day". You'll be singing along with this infectious song which could be the "Give Peace A Chance" and "We Are The World" of the 21st Century. The song features Les playing the Starr Labs Ztar, the futuristic MIDI Guitar Controller.

"The Rebirth Of Hope"- the first of two instrumentals on this special EP, features a very emotional theme. Les features on Hammond Organ, lead guitar and Starr Labs Ztar Orchestrations.

"Anthem For All Nations" is a Ztar featured instrumental which was inspired by a Georg Handel Minuet from his Concerto Grosso 6 Opus Number 5. Les' treatment of this piece, which heavily features his Starr Labs Ztar, has been described by Malcolm Campbell: "This is the closing movement of Op.6 No.5, a typically elegant minuet dazzlingly transformed into an anthem of truly Handelian majesty (note the striking evocation of an ethereal choir from 2:45). Les deploys four Mellotron dubs to create an awesomely ample soundstage recalling the huge musical resources mustered by the maestro himself in the anthems he composed for the wonderfully reverberant acoustics of Westminster Abbey. Full of clever touches, it constantly surprises, and furnishes an object lesson in the skilful use of modern technology to create an illusion of large-scale musical forces — a sleight of hand that brilliantly re-interprets shining compositions sourced from what an eminent writer on the period has termed ‘a fascinating cast of musical magicians'."

"Anthem" conjures up a peaceful but stirring feeling... "Together for The World".