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Left Alone is a punk rock band from Wilmington, California. They were formed in May 1996 by lead vocalist and guitarist Elvis Cortez. Cortez formed his own label, Smelvis Records, to release Left Alone's records, and has since expanded the label to include numerous other underground bands. Cortez was also the owner of the PCH Club in Wilmington, which is now defunct. Left Alone's music has ska influences, and the band is notable for adhering to a do it yourself ethic by avoiding major labels, booking their own tours, and making their own merchandise.
After releasing numerous demos, splits, and EPs, Left Alone released their first full-length, Streets of Wilmington, in 2002. A year later, the band compiled their earlier, out-of-print recordings on the anthology Left Alone: 1996–2000. In 2003, Cortez went on the Warped Tour as a roadie for the band Destruction Made Simple. After a few weeks of doing nothing as a roadie other than promoting his own band, Elvis was forced to return to LA because his dogs needed surgery. After Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman heard Left Alone's music, he chose the band to be the Warped Tour BBQ band for the 2004 tour. The band were invited back to be the BBQ band for the 2005 tour. While on the Warped Tour, Tim Armstrong of Rancid heard Left Alone's 2004 album, Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts. Armstrong signed the band to his label, Hellcat Records, and re-released Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts. The band released their third full-length album, Dead American Radio, on August 8, 2006, which features guest appearances from Tim Armstrong and Patricia Day of the Horrorpops.
The band released their self-titled album on April 7, 2009.
They were touring with the Vans Warped Tour 2010.
Since 2011, Elvis Cortez has been a touring member of Tim Armstrong's band Transplants.
Band members
Elvis Cortez – lead vocals, guitar
Jimmy Jam – Bass
Ben Shaw – Drums
Pablo Fiasco - Organ
Former members
Nick Danger – Bass
Wallace Tenenbaum! – Bass
Ruben Medina – Bass, Vocals
Salvador Ibarra, Jr. – Drums
Lawrence Sanchez – Saxophone
Alfredo Quinonez – Trumpet
German Castellanos – Trombone
Ramrod – Drums
Jonathan "Be@t$" Contreras – Drums
Billy Lopez – Drums
Ricardo Cruz- Bass
Armando Garduño-Guitar
Discography
= Studio albums
=Streets of Wilmington, Smelvis Records, 2002
Left Alone: 1996–2000, Smelvis Records, 2003
Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts, Smelvis Records, 2004
Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts (re-release), Hellcat Records, 2005
Dead American Radio, Hellcat Records, 2006 (vinyl release by Durty Mick Records, 2007)
Streets Of Wilmington, (remastered w/bonus tracks, vinyl only), Blackbird Music, 2009
Left Alone, Hellcat Records, 2009 (vinyl release by Blackbird Music, 2009)
Harbor Area, Hellcat Records/Smelvis Records, 2014
Checkers & Plaid, Smelvis Records, 2021
= EPs
=Live at the Roxy, Smelvis Records, 1997
Stranded Again, Counterfeit Records, 1998
My Mistake, Smelvis Records, 2000
Anything for the Kids, Smelvis Records, 2004
Hate the Day, Hellcat/Smelvis Records, 2013
= Compilations/Splits
=Left Alone/Snap Her Split, One Shot Records, 2001
Voodoo Glow Skulls/Left Alone Split, Smelvis Records, 2004
Left Alone/Mastema Split 7" (limited edition colored vinyl release) Smelvis Records No. 20, 2005
Left Alone/Far From Finished Split, Do Tell Records, 2005
Left Alone/Deadly Sins Split 7" (vinyl release) Durty Mick Records, 2008
Left Alone/Potato Pirates 7" (vinyl release) Smelvis Records, 2011
Left Alone/Argyle Street Split 7" (vinyl release) Smelvis Records, 2011
Left Alone/China Wife Motors Split 7" (vinyl release) Smelvis Records, 2011
Left Alone/Peaceable Jones Split 7" (vinyl release) Smelvis Records, 2011
Hooligans United a Tribute to Rancid, Smelvis Records, 2015
Manic Hispanic/Left Alone Split 7" (vinyl release) Smelvis Records, 2016
Rare and Unreleased Tracks 2016
= Singles
=The Question, Smelvis Records, 2001
Wilmington, CA, Smelvis Records, 2002
Lonely Ride (acoustic demo), Smelvis Records, 2002
= Music Videos
=4 Weeks
Every Night
I Hate Emo
Would You Stay Now
Sad Story
Broken Promise
Leather Bound Book
Black Derby Jacket
References
External links
Left Alone at Myspace
Left, alone is a piano concerto for the left hand and orchestra by the Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen. The work was commissioned by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk and co-commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Its world premiere was given by the pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester under the direction of Ilan Volkov on January 29, 2016. The piece is dedicated to Alexandre Tharaud.
Composition
= Background
=Abrahamsen, who was born with cerebral palsy, has the use of only two fingers in his right hand, limiting his ability as a performer. In the score program notes for Left, alone, Abrahamsen wrote, "I was born with a right hand that is not fully functional, and though it never prevented me from loving playing the piano as well as I could with this physical limitation, it has obviously given me an alternative focus on the whole piano literature and has given me a close relationship with the works written for the left hand by Ravel and others. This repertoire has been with me since my youth."
The composer's first publicly performed work October was written for piano left-hand and horn (Abrahamsen's principal instrument and the only instrument that can be played with the left hand only). Abrahamsen performed the work himself in the autumn of 1969 and the idea of composing a large-scale work for piano left-hand had remained with him since.
Composed between 2014 and 2015, Abrahamsen said of Left, alone, "This new work is not written for a pianist with only one hand, but rather by a composer who can only play with the left hand." He added, "The title Left, alone contains all kinds of references, not only to the obvious fact that the left hand is playing alone."
= Structure
=The concerto has a duration of roughly 18 minutes and is cast in two parts divided into six smaller movements:
Part I
1. Very fast
2. Slowly walking
3. Presto fluente (like a gentle rain, light and bubbly)
Part II
4. Slowly
5. Prestissimo tempestuoso
6. In a tempo from another time – In a time of slow motion – Suddenly in flying time, "Fairy Tale Time"
= Instrumentation
=The work is scored for solo piano and an orchestra consisting of two flutes (both doubling piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets (1st doubling E-flat clarinet; 2nd doubling bass clarinet), two bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon), three horns, two trumpets, two trombones, bass tuba, timpani, two percussionists, harp, piano (doubling celesta), and strings.
Reception
Left, alone has been praised by music critics. Rebecca Franks of The Times described it as "weightless and otherworldly, as stark, soft, radiant and magical as fresh snow." She added, "Even its composer, who took his bows after the flawless UK premiere with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the soloist Alexandre Tharaud and the conductor Ilan Volkov, had the air of a magician with access to unimagined realms." Richard Bratby of The Arts Desk wrote:Left, alone, Hans Abrahamsen's new piano concerto for the left hand, swirls out of the darkness to a jagged motor rhythm. Piano and orchestra clash and interlock; you're reminded of Prokofiev and Ravel. Then something happens. A piano plays, but the soloist is motionless. It's been there all the time, of course – an orchestral piano, up on the percussion risers. But now it's turned threatening: upstaging the soloist with its full two-handed range and stealing his musical voice, his very identity. And although it doesn't really intervene again until the last movement, you're continually aware of its sinister gloss black presence crouching there in the background – a quiet doppelganger, waiting to make its move. The concerto becomes a dark fairy tale.
Bratby continued:Am I going too far? To be fair, Abrahamsen (...) actually describes the last of the concerto's six short movements as 'in flying time, Fairy Tale Time', and, himself unable to play the piano with his right hand, clearly identifies with his soloist. For this UK premiere that was the work's dedicatee, Alexandre Tharaud, bringing a miraculous range of tone and expression to a score which at times has him playing no more than a single note suspended in silence, or picking his way between a pair of claves. It's rare to hear a new work in which every note has been so carefully chosen and so perfectly placed.
See also
List of works for piano left-hand and orchestra
References
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