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Release Date: 09-06-1997
Label: Real Music
Catalog Number: RM1000-2
Barcode: 46286100027
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reminiscence [04:11] | 10 | To The Saloon [00:45] |
| 2 | China Montage [04:17] | 11 | Chinese New Year [01:49] |
| 3 | Sold to Slavery [02:12] | 12 | Winter Turns To Spring [01:46] |
| 4 | Chinese Bride [01:33] | 13 | Charlie’s Last Stand [01:16] |
| 5 | Long Journey [01:12] | 14 | Deathbed [02:19] |
| 6 | Tiger In The Cage [01:34] | 15 | Free At Last [01:26] |
| 7 | Chinatown [02:05] | 16 | Jim Leaves Forever [01:24] |
| 8 | First Night [02:34] | 17 | Final Credits [04:07] |
| 9 | Exodus [03:37] | ||
Description:
Emmy award winning Gary Remal Malkin's debut release is the soundtrack to Thousand Pieces of Gold, a film featuring his original score, which blends Chinese and western music in a distinctive and highly evocative way. Truly a masterpiece.
Biography:
Born and raised in New York, Gary Remal Malkin has been playing the piano since the age of four, composing since twelve and producing and composing professionally since 1978. During high school, he studied composition and drama at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan and went on to study piano and composition at USC and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In addition, Malkin did post-graduate work at San Francisco State University, studied jazz arranging and orchestration with Dick Grove and attended the renowned Ali Akbar College in Northern California, focusing on his interest in ethno- musicology under the tutelage of Ali Akbar Khan.
Malkin's formal training provides a solid foundation for his versatility and continuously evolving style. With elements of orchestral, funk, rhythm and blues, jazz and ethnic world music, his broad musical palette defies categorization. He is equally comfortable with state-of-the-art computer technology and acoustic instruments, effortlessly blending the two to give his compositions added dimension, depth and emotion.
In his professional career, Malkin has achieved major success as a composer for film and television, with a wide spectrum of credits attesting to his versatility. He has created original music for internationally distributed feature films, network and cable television series and documentaries and more than 1000 television commercials. He also has contributed his talents to a wide range of causes and socially responsible projects. The quality of Malkin's musical works has not gone unnoticed. He has received a number of prestigious awards. Among them, the highlights include ASCAP Film and Television Awards, four Emmys, a Cine Golden Eagle, a Joey and grand prizes in Best of the West, the NY Film and Television Awards and the ADDY's.
Driven by an urge to find his own voice of expression, Malkin decided to actively pursue success as a solo artist in the early 1990s.
Although he has embarked upon a new direction as a solo artist, Malkin continues to work in film and television. He is the principal composer and producer of the Remal Music Group, a San Francisco and Los Angeles based company that creates original music for films, television programs and commercials. Malkin currently resides in Northern California with his wife and daughter.
