PRESS RELEASE: Travel to Travis Laplante's Inner Garden 🌱
Journey to Travis Laplante's Inner Garden
“head-spinning flights of circular breathing share space with sparse, prayerful lyricism”
-Rolling Stone on Travis Laplante
Sax player Travis Laplante returns with Inner Garden, a nirvana-inducing three movement work that showcases his passion for seamlessly merging improvisation and composition that was inspired by a dreamlike state he experienced when he received the commission from percussion/piano ensemble Yarn/Wire and Roulette. The album drops tomorrow!
Get a first listen of Inner Garden along with Travis Laplante and Yarn/Wire tonight (10/8) at 9 p.m. EST at our YouTube page. Hang out, virtual style, and celebrate the album with Travis and Yarn/Wire, who'll be discussing the work and conversing about the project in a Q&A following the first listen.
A Dynamic Musical Exploration of Race, Class & Power
"Joseph C. Phillips Jr. creates music that sounds classical, funky and sometimes cinematic.
... hard to categorize." — NPR
We're thrilled to announce The Grey Land, a mono-opera written by Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and recorded with his ensemble Numinous for release Nov. 20. Featuring soloists soprano Rebecca L Hargrove and narrator Kenneth Browning, the undefinable work, chronicles a single Black mother and her son for a dynamic exploration of race, class and power in 21st century America.
For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
a "consistently rewarding label"
-The New York Times on New Amsterdam
It's GRAMMY® season, and we are so grateful to have worked with so much incredible, thought-provoking music, some of which is now on the ballot for your consideration.
Listen to some of the past year's releases.