Celebrated new-music sextet eighth blackbird, whose last three Cedille Records albums garnered Grammy awards, continues to soar with this album, a selection of four world premiere recordings plus a concert performance of Philip Glass's influential Two Pages.
Murder ballades / Bryce Dessner (18:48) -- Doublespeak / Nico Muhly (9:03) -- To love / Son Lux (2:02) -- Two pages / Philip Glass (16:16) -- This is my line / Son Lux (3:01).
Note
The 3rd and 5th works "are remixes ... employ[ing] only sounds gathered from the rest of the album, with the exception of the voice of Shara Worden ... [whose] song This is my hand (referenced in both remixes) was written in response to ... Philip Glass's Two pages."
Title
Filament.
Publisher
Chicago, IL : Cedille, [2015]
Copyright date
℗2015
Playing time
001848 000903 000202 001616 000301
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Eighth Blackbird (Tim Munro, flutes ; Yvonne Lam, violin ; Matthew Duvall, percussion ; Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets ; Nicholas Photinos, cello ; Lisa Kaplan, piano) ; in the 4th work: Bryce Dessner, guitar ; Nico Muhly, organ.
Event
4th work recorded live 2013 May 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Remainder recorded 2013 May 1-2 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.