Marc Mauillon - Traveling Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mauillon,Marc / Coppola,Guillaume - Poulenc Miroirs Brulants - Integrale De Melodies [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/04/2014

Composer Lainie Fefferman's InchHere I AmInch is the culmination of a fifteen year creative journey engaging and grappling with the ancient texts of the Hebrew Bible, and writing music in response to her immersive process. The resulting piece is structured loosely in the form of an oratorio and scored for a group of solo and ensemble female voices, accompanied by a kind of chamber rock band of electric guitar, drum set, piano, percussion, cello, violin, and clarinet, performed by TRANSIT New Music. At the heart of InchHere I AmInch is Fefferman's earnest effort at reclaiming her connection to this received tradition, understanding it in the context of modern life despite some of it's challenging content, and inviting the listener to explore ancient texts with the same critical and open spirit.

Trop-pop duo Summer Salt - singer/guitarist Matthew Terry and drummer Eugene Chung - spent many years building towards their latest album, Sequoia Moon (2021), ever since jettisoning their Dallas, Texas, hometown for the arts-and-culture oasis of Austin. The band quickly rose through the ranks of the local Austin scene with their 2014 debut Driving To Hawaii, teeming with both the escapism and recklessness of youth and the composure and charm of '60s-era pop, doo wop and bossa nova.