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Once in New York, at an otherwise unmemorable Lincoln Center Opera performance, I sat next to a playwright by the name of Michael Paller. We became friends and often wrote back and forth from New York to Boston. We eventually discussed the idea of collaborating on a multimedia project / semi opera at my suggestion. I had in mind an intense, bleak postmodern feel (not quite my usual realm) and left it to Michael to figure the details. Two years later he delivered a taut, terse, chilling one-act called The Ring , loosely based on the Stuart murder in Boston (the true story of a man who killed his wife for insurance money framing it to implicate the African-American community).

Michael put an even stranger twist to the story and delivered it with a rhythm and feel that could echo at Harold Pinter and David Lynch but is very much Michael's own unique stark richness. The piece has been performed in Cleveland and New York as a play with incidental music arranged from the ongoing full score (the original format of the work is still in progress). While organizing the score for these productions, I also began to recognize a solo version inherent in the material, which I then developed.

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from Warning Clothed In Bright Robes Of Dawn (remaster), released January 22, 2019

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Mustafa Stefan Dill Albuquerque, New Mexico

MSD: desert-born, hung with Lebanese relatives in Mexico, formative years in Montpellier, France, speaks several languages, but mainly music.

His intense welding of flamenco + Middle Eastern + free improv won praise and established a hallmark approach he uses in many settings and volumes.

Gigs include FMP, Wirral Guitar Fest, Zuid Nederlands Jazz Fest, etc. and work with Cecil Taylor, others.
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