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Announcing Ecstatic Science, the fourth album from yMusic, "Paul Simon's genre-grossing chamber ensemble of choice." (Rolling Stone)
Featuring works from Missy Mazzoli, "one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York" (The New York Times), Pulitzer Prize-winning Caroline Shaw, Gabriella Smith and Paul Wiancko.
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released February 14, 2020
ECSTATIC SCIENCE TRACKLISTING
1. Tessellations - Gabriella Smith (4:23)
2. Ecstatic Science - Missy Mazzoli (8:26)
3. Thous&ths - Paul Wiancko (7:39)
4. Draft Of A High - Rise - Caroline Shaw
I. Inked Frame (3:55)
II. A Scribbled Veneer (3:36)
III. Their Stenciled Breath (4:00)
5. Maré - Gabriella Smith (8:01)
Total Time: 40:00
ALBUM CREDITS
yMusic is:
Alex Sopp, flutes and vocals
Hideaki Aomori, clarinets
CJ Camerieri, trumpet and horn
Rob Moose, violin and guitar
Nadia Sirota, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Recorded at National Sawdust
Engineered, edited and mixed by Alejandro Venguer
Assisted by Gintas Norvila
Mastered by Richard Dodd
Cover art by Alex Sopp
Album design by David Stith
Argentine composer and guitarist Francisco del Pino achieves a stunning art-song hybrid on the first album to be released under his own name. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 19, 2021
Minimal and emotionally evocative compositions for solo piano in the Ryuichi Sakamoto vein from Cincinnati's Tristan Eckerson. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 18, 2020
Dargel layers his vocals over a heady brew of skittish electronics, and mixes in classical, rock, and pop influences. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 29, 2015
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One of the most beautiful pieces of music to be released in years. Goosebump-inducing. A stunning adapation of an ancient sacred form to a modern idiom, and one of the most effective musical expressions of the trauma being wrought on our planet. Incredible. nankaiduck78