New "Trio" commissioned by musicians from Du Paul University

Colin Stack returns to composing concert music after one years’ hiatus working with The Leftovers (Stack’s vaudeville-chamber-pop ensemble) for their new album “Alla Carte.” He has been commissioned by his good friend and former member of The Fever String Quartet Gabriel Schlaffer – who is now a sought-after violist working in Chicago. The trio will be scored for oboe, piano, and viola. The premiere is scheduled for sometime in December of 2005 at Du Paul University for Schlaffer’s graduate recital. Additional performances will take place at Roosevelt University and other performance venues in Chicago.

"Maybe I'm Dreaming" EP to be released on June 30th.

The “Maybe I’m Dreaming” EP will consist of live versions of songs from past Colin Stack albums, two new songs from his new album “Alla Carte” with The Leftovers (to be released this fall), and one song from “Troubleshooting” (an album of up-beat songs to be released sometime in 2006). The EP will be released on June 30th.

Tracks
1. Maybe I'm Dreaming
(with The Leftovers from their new album "Alla Carte.")
2. Kate's Parade
(solo guitar version; recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston MA for
New England Conservatory's Concert X. Recorded in November of 2003)
3. Perfume
(solo piano version; recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston MA for
New England Conservatory's Concert X. Recorded in November of 2003)
4. Those Impressionable Days
(with The Leftovers from their new album "Alla Carte.")
5. From The Leftside Of Irrational
( from "Troubleshooting", to be released sometime in 2006)
6. Goodbye To My Old Playground
(solo guitar version)
7. Those Impressionable Days
(solo guitar version)
8. Nothing Particular In Mind
(with Missing Link; recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston MA for
New England Conservatory's Concert X. Recorded December of 2002)

Summer 2005: Colin teaching and performing at the National Guitar Workshop

Colin will be teaching courses on songwritng, composition, music theory, guitar, paino, and vocal performance at the National Guitar Workshop in New Milford CT from July 1st through August 15th. He can be heard performing his songs on their weekly faculty concerts. This will be his second summer teaching at the workshop. For more information on the National Guitar Workshop, please visit their website at www.guitarworkshoporders.com

Colin Stack and The Leftovers to release "Alla Carte"

Following the lush over-orchestrated collection of pop-art songs featured on Colin Stack’s last album “Commercial Suicide”, comes the first full-blown production of opuses composed in the avant-pop genre on his up-coming release titled, “Alla Carte.” Stack’s vocals are backed up by The Leftovers; a chamber group comprised of brass, woodwinds, and saxophones. Additional string and percussion players were employed to provide variation in timbre for some of the songs. Stack’s own instrumental contributions include guitar and piano.
Drawing from the influences of George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and early Tom Waits; Stack creates a kaleidoscope of different soundscapes in his orchestrations for The Leftovers. The songs are cynical, mostly dealing with dating dysfunction and strange love. Other songs take the listener down odd corridors of the human condition with surprising twists and turns. Guaranteed to provide the music lover with something different; Colin Stack and The Leftovers hope that you’ll spin their new album “Alla Carte” this November when they release it. More information on Colin Stack and The Leftovers will be made available soon on colinstack.com