Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was - New Lp Record 2015 Constellation Canada Import 180 gram Vinyl & Download - Jazz / Avantgarde
Two of Constellation's acclaimed solo instrumental artists join forces on this tremendous new album of original compositions for horn and violin.Colin Stetson has developed a unique and highly-acclaimed voice as a performer/composer, chiefly on bass and tenor saxophones, rallying an array of technical strengths and innovations to make some of the most captivatingly organic, darkly soulful and otherworldly solo instrumental work of recent years with his New History Warfare trilogy. The solo violin work of Sarah Neufeld has emerged more recently, and especially through 2011-2014, in the period between her primary band Arcade Fire's last two albums; she's forged a distinctive and evocative solo violin practice combining rock, folk, ambient and modernist sensibilities, culminating with her debut solo album Hero Brother in 2013.'Never were the way she was' charts an expansive sonic trajectory with a multiplicity of structures and voicings that belies the fundamental economy of two acoustic instruments combining in real time. The resulting musical chronicle powerfully establishes its own spatial and temporal horizon; Stetson and Neufeld offer up an impressively immersive integration of composition, performance, timbre and texture. 'Never were the way she was' is a sum quite definitively and thrillingly greater than its parts.
Tracklist
A1 | The Sun Roars Into View | |
A2 | Won't Be A Thing To Become | |
A3 | In The Vespers | |
A4 | And Still They Move | |
B1 | With The Dark Hug Of Time | |
B2 | The Rest Of Us | |
B3 | Never Were The Way She Was | |
B4 | Flight |
Companies, etc.
- Engineered At – The End Of The World (4)
- Mixed At – Sonobee
- Mastered At – Grey Market Mastering
- Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BF78512
Credits
- Engineer – Hans Bernhard (2)
- Mastered By – Harris Newman
- Mastered By [Vinyl] – MK (11)
- Mixed By – Mark Lawson
- Photography By – Kim Meinelt, Scott Irvine (2)
- Written-By, Performer, Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, Contrabass Clarinet – Colin Stetson
- Written-By, Performer, Violin, Voice – Sarah Neufeld
Notes
LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Sticker): 6 66561 01131 4
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