Melodic Revolution Records is thrilled to announce the signing of New York multi-instrumentalist, composer, and musician T. Virgil Parker for the release of his creative new album, sorry to bug you, with a release date to be announced soon.
Sometimes the most unexpected ideas make the most interesting music. sorry to bug you began with a simple musical observation: Parker wrote a song that sounded like a grasshopper bouncing its way through his daily routine. His wife suggested that he write more songs about insects, and from that simple suggestion, an entire musical world took shape.
The result is sorry to bug you, an unconventional and imaginative album that explores the sounds, personalities, and movements of the insect world through Parker’s musical perspective. The album culminates with the ambitious 12-minute “Butterfly Suite,” a fitting opener to a project that refuses to follow conventional musical boundaries.
Raised in a musical family, Parker began performing at a young age and was playing keyboards professionally by the time he was sixteen. Over the years, he has developed a remarkably diverse musical vocabulary encompassing avant-garde, reggae, country, Renaissance, world music, techno, and beyond.
His instrumentation is equally eclectic. While piano remains central to his musical life, Parker has explored an extraordinary range of instruments, including sitar, erhu, hulusi, harmonium, and keyboards, allowing him to move freely between musical traditions and genres.
Parker’s Renaissance duo Arethusa, formed with his son, toured extensively throughout the Northeast and played an important role in shaping his eclectic musical identity. His career has continued to evolve across music, performance, production, and publishing. Today, Parker produces a Renaissance festival, co-publishes a biweekly newspaper, and continues to perform primarily on piano while also pursuing techno-oriented projects.
With sorry to bug you, Parker once again demonstrates that creativity knows no boundaries. A whimsical concept is unique musical exploration, and an invitation to listen, and perhaps pay a little more attention to the fascinating world buzzing, crawling, and fluttering all around us.
“This work had such random origins; it felt like someone else was developing the ideas until I caught myself being less than honest to my imagination when I was working on one of the songs, and literally took it apart.”
“In the past, I did musical portraits of people; this felt like portraits of insects, the darting of a dragonfly, the stalwart determination of a caterpillar; the relentless multitasking of the spider (the only non-insect in the collection). I feel a strange empathy for the little guys in a way I never would until I painted them with sound.”
“Signing with Melodic Revolution Music is making me feel like I finally got into an amazing, arty, brilliant music family.”
Says Parker
Melodic Revolution Records is proud to welcome T. Virgil Parker to the family and looks forward to introducing sorry to bug you to listeners who appreciate music that ventures above and beyond.
T. Virgil Parker Online
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tim.parker
MRR Profile Page: https://mrrmusic.com/project/t-virgil-parker/
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/t-virgil-parker/1671889246
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Sswk2l3M9zQNhgkT8SU2G
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@timparker33
T. Virgil Parker “sorry to bug you”
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