KING MANGOBERRY (Music of Ricardo Lorenz)

How does one define musical language? How does one describe, compartmentalize, or build walls around a music that knows no borders and yields to no conventions? To experience the music of Ricardo Lorenz is to enter an inimitable sound world governed by confounding rhythm, inhabited by rich color, with a brilliant and at time foreboding formal landscape. His musical message emerges from the fog of the mind’s ear with a clarity that rings loudly in the very depths of the musician’s soul. By allowing Ricardo’s music into our minds and hearts, we discover musical lessons essential for a well-lived life.

At once sincere, cryptic, poignant, and raw, this collection of works celebrates the artistic symbiosis between composer and performer. King Mangoberry challenges us to celebrate an identity different from our own while questioning the very notion of identify itself. Pataruco teaches us to reimagine the possibilities of an instrument we think we know. El Muro builds, and subsequently tears down, walls.

KING MANGOBERRY: Five Allegories for Wind Symphony (2017)

King Mangoberry’s Triumphant Entrance 
Princess Cherrygus Reveals Her Dream  
Sir Lempple Contemplates His Reflection in the Mirror
Court Jester Rumffee’s Juggling Fixation 
Wizard Walconut’s Unwelcome Spell & Exit of King Mangoberry’s Entourage  

PATARUCO: Concerto for Venezuelan Maracas And Winds Symphony (1999/2019)                

EL MURO (2008)