ANNOUNCING: Bold New Music from Ted Hearne and iT Boy
If you're looking for bold new music, we have you covered.
TED HEARNE - PLACE
Pulitzer prize finalist, composer, singer and conductor Ted Hearne, who is “not afraid to bring politics and social justice issues into his music,” (WFMT) grapples with the generational conversation of gentrification in Place, an “explosive, restless, fragment-laden score,” (New York Times) written in collaboration with poet/activist Saul Williams.
This expansive hybrid album produced by Nick Tipp features an all-star ensemble of musicians from the divergent worlds of hip hop, R&B, experimental and noise music to contemporary chamber ensembles. Place is a multifarious meditation on white supremacy, fatherhood, displacement and loss, at once intimate and monumental.
Heads up, if you're in Los Angeles check out the West Coast premiere of Place as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Power to the People Festival Tuesday, March 24.
Pre-order your copy at Bandcamp today! Place is out April 3.
With The Nail House EP, iT Boy's Theo Baer crafts an emotional narrative with sophisticated textures and moody, meditative gravitas. Each built around a cassette loop, the three tracks' sounds derive their tonality from musical cryptograms of words, phrases, and names of specific significance.
A portrait of Baer's deepest inspirations and the personal hardships that have shaped his artistic journey, the album takes its name from the Chinese term for a home whose owners refuse to relinquish space to the imposing pressures of gentrification.
Over the course of a year of writing and recording this project, Baer says, "my home and work studio of five years became a "Nail House" in its own right. I was finally evicted shortly after finishing these works." Baer's response to these circumstances culminates in music that is at once vulnerable and intimately powerful.
Out now via NewAm's Windmill Series + available everywhere on May 8.