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Discover 500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest Score on the ACT!

Discover 500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest Score on the ACT!

Discover 500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest Score on the ACT!

The third album in a strikingly original trio of recordings by prolific multi-award-winning Japanese composer/trumpeter Jun Miyake. "Lost Memory Theatre is truly unique: it constantly produces that 'third thing' between music and imagery. You enter this space for the first time and you're already addicted to it." Wim Wenders. Artist, composer, songwriter, trumpeter, pianist in and around the Tokyo music scene; Jun Miyake has released twenty-seven albums across an eccentric array of styles; appeared as a guest soloist and served as a producer for numerous artists.

Based in San Francisco, The Family Crest blends genres and dense orchestrations to create a sweeping musical landscape while maintaining a pop sensibility. The Family Crest have already earned widespread national applause for their extraordinary orchestral pop ambition but with THE WAR, the San Francisco-based collective makes their boldest, most fully articulated musical statement thus far. The second installment of what promises to be an epic musical saga, THE WAR: ACT I represents ''the next version of The Family Crest,'' says frontman-founder Liam McCormick and indeed, the album reveals a band more in tune with its own large-scale Baroque eclecticism. Preceded in early 2017 by the PRELUDE TO WAR EP, the new album marks the first act of a greater multi-tiered project, a kind of serial concept album with a pronounced thematic arc that weaves ideas of pride and memory, dissonance and divergence, into a purposefully ambiguous but undeniably unified whole.