
On The Current Agenda Horvat focuses his outward vision and glares at the world in all its nakedness. What he sees results in music filled with anger, a mesmeric and hypnotic visual account of a world gone mad.
– Raul da Gama
WholeNote Magazine
- If Not Us, Then Who? Michael Westwood (clarinet), Erika Nielsen (cello), Gregory Millar (piano) 10:27
- Whistleblower Frank Horvat (electric piano), Jamie Thompson (flute), Erika Nielsen (cello), Daniel Morphy (marimba) 09:55
- 08/14/13 - Cairo Kathryn Ladano (bass clarinet) 13:05
- Lac-Mégantic Lisa Tahara (piano) 14:18
- diskriminatsiya Christopher Lee (flute), Samantha Chang (flute) 11:04
- Sunflower Daniel Morphy (marimba), Gregory Millar (piano) 06:40
Social justice music of today, in a powerful, brutal and heartfelt electro-chamber package. Audiences are left in tears, full of hope, and enthralled by the experience. Brand new music for our times. A heart-grabbing and sometimes heart-pounding collection of six compositions on social injustices that affect our modern landscape and all people living on this planet.
The tracks combine chamber instrumentation, such as violin, cello, flute, clarinet, piano, and marimba, with deep-set emotions and prepared electronics that add to the story. These compositions offer a different perspective on important issues such as human rights, war, climate change and our personal safety. Learn more about this album’s story…
Horvat’s work is exquisitely eventful and almost insidiously effective. Horvat’s ideas are suspended in a kind of bohemian dynamic and come alive in their thrilling combinations of trademark repetitions and overlapping with an almost ceremonial theatrical grandeur. Clearly it appears time for Frank Horvat to take the gloves off musically and declare that he is free to roam as he pleases, wherever the music beckons.
– WholeNote Magazine
Special thanks to Rick Sacks and Daniel Morphy for scoring help. Special thanks to Alex and Yury for telling their stories and to Yeb Sano for keeping up the fight. This album is dedicated to all who strive to make the world just.

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TYPE
Electro-Chamber
MUSICIANS
Samantha Chang (flute), Kathryn Ladano (bass clarinet), Christopher Lee (flute), Gregory Millar (piano), Daniel Morphy (marimba), Erika Nielsen (cello), Lisa Tahara (piano), Jamie Thompson (flute), Michael Westwood (clarinet), Frank Horvat (electric piano)
COMPOSED BY
Frank Horvat
PRODUCED BY
Frank Horvat and Jean Martin
RECORDED AT
THE FARM by Jean Martin and The Canterbury Music Co. by Jeremy Darby and Julian Decorte,
September 2016
MASTERED BY
Dennis Patterson
COVER PHOTO
Manu Brabo
RELEASE DATE
19 September 2017

Story behind the tracks
(album background info)
01 If Not Us, Then Who?
02 Whistleblower
03 08/14/13 – Cairo
04 Lac-Mégantic
05 diskriminatsiya
06 Sunflower
Project funded in part thanks to generous support from:
Executive Producer: Steven Hobé. Plus Vince Tieri & Rosanne Allen; Gerard Bakker; Alden Campbell; Adrienne Cohen; Susan Nagy & Scott Collie; Lesley Kempson-Marsh & Carlos Gomes; Brien Hayes & Sabina Song; Lorne Hiro; Jenny How; Dan & Melissa Lebel; Lorna Livey; Wayne Mennecke; Jay & Karen Moonah; Adam Nihmey; Ella Poret; Dianne & Rob Roberti; Ted Scheniman; Ozlem & Emre Sencan; Mimi Spencer; Michael & Andrew Peng & Cherry Wu