Killer Instincts

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Label
Mode Records
Release Date
May 8, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Sun, The Gurks
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 08, 2020
    • UPC
      764593032120
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MOD-CD-321
    • LABEL
      Mode Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Adult Contemporary
    Works ⌄

    1. The Black Rider: Lucky Day Overture (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Tom Waits

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    2. O Lucky Man!: Justice (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Alan Price

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    3. Chicago, Act I: When You're Good to Mama (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: John Kander

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    4. Der Silbersee, Act I: Was zahlen Sie für einen Rat (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    5. Political Science (Let's Drop the Big One) (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Randy Newman

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    6. Hitler (arr. M. Renne for voice and piano)

      Composer: Stefan Wolpe

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun, Jan Philip Schulze

    7. I Put a Spell on You (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Screamin' Jay Hawkins

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    8. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder: I Don't Understand the Poor (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Steven Lutvak

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    9. The Black Rider: Just the Right Bullets (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Tom Waits

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    10. Trouble in Tahiti: There's a Law About Men (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    11. Life's Been Good (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and bass guitar)

      Composer: Joe Walsh

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun, Hubert Steiner

    12. Candide, Act I: Glitter and Be Gay (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    13. Damn Yankees, Act I: A Little Brains, a Little Talent (arr. M. Renne for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Richard Adler

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    14. Company: The Ladies who Lunch (arr. M. Renne and S.M. Sun for voice and ensemble)

      Composer: Stephen Sondheim

      Ensemble: The Gurks

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

    15. Abschied (Leb wohl, du schöne Erde), D. 829

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun, Jan Philip Schulze


Sarah Maria Sun's "Killer Instincts" is an incredibly creative and colorful collection of songs about bad people doing bad things. Perhaps no longer "hip" thing to do, it is a concept album - pleasurable journey in bad people's shoes. To assemble the collection, Sarah brought together songs from a wide range of genres - classical art song and melodrama, opera, Broadway, movie soundtracks, and classic rock and pop. How can this work? In these songs, Sarah inhabits a wide range of characters, at the same displaying her amazing abilities in disparate styles. The arrangements, by Max Renne and Sarah, are as clever as the repertoire. Bernstein's virtuoso "Glitter and Be Gay" arranged for an ensemble of banjos and guitar, and his "There's a Law About Men" sung to an electronic background of the orchestral accompaniment chopped and minced with filters. Joe Walsh's rock classic "Life's Been Good" sung accompanied by just bass guitar. Tom Waits' "Just the Right Bullets" in a wild west meets surf music arrangement. Others are sung basically straight: the Schubert melodrama "Abschied von der Erde" and the first recording of Stefan Wolpe's harrowing "Hitler." And on and on. Keep an open mind and enjoy the ride!