Caroline Shaw & So Percussion - Rectangles And Circumstance - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. 2024 . Nonesuch Records releases Rectangles and Circumstance, an album of ten songs co-written and performed by Caroline Shaw and So Percussion. The album follows their 2021 Grammy Award-winning Nonesuch debut, Narrow Sea, and their first record as a band, 2021's Let the Soil Play It's Simple Part, with Shaw on vocals backed by So-Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting. Grammy-winning engineer Jonathan Low (The National, Taylor Swift) co-produced with them on both Let the Soil... and Rectangles and Circumstance. Sliwinski says. InchFor this album, Caroline, Eric, and I sourced a group of nineteenth-century poems that shaped it's expressive mode [and] ended up using verses by Christina Rosetti, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and William Blake... The lyrics on this album by members of the band contain wordplay that explores the same profound feelings explored by Blake and Dickinson.Inch Album Tracks 1. Rectangles and Circumstance 2. Sing on 3. Silently Invisibly 4. And So 5. The Parting Glass 6. Slow Motion 7. Who Turns Out the Light 8. Like a Drum 9. This 10. To Music

Narrow Sea was written for So Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gil Kalish in 2017. The piece combines my previous explorations of folk song with a sonic universe that includes ceramic bowls, humming, a piano played like a dulcimer by five people at once, and flower pots (which are the central focus of Taxidermy - my first piece for So Percussion, written in 2012). Gil Kalish's piano serves as a grounding force, or a familiar memory, that keeps reappearing amid the different textures introduced by So Percussion. And Dawn Upshaw's voice is a brilliant instrument that brings the words to life with warmth and directness. Album Tracks 1. Narrow Sea, Pt. 1 2. Narrow Sea, Pt. 2 3. Narrow Sea, Pt. 3 4. Narrow Sea, Pt. 4 5. Narrow Sea, Pt. 5 6. Taxidermy - By SO Percussion

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R Album Tracks 1. Ja-He'd 2. Mack the Knife 3. African Exchange Student 4. Someday We'll All Be Free 5. One World Through 6. Straight Street 7. Shaw 8. Lullaby of Isfahan 9. One Finger Snap 10. Your Country-Ness 11. Nostradamus