PRESS RELEASE: New Music Friday: Ted Hearne and Bec Plexus Edition
Ted Hearne's 'explosive, restless, fragment-laden' Place, with Saul Williams is out today.
Place is available now at Apple Music, Bandcamp, and Spotify.
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.
Watch the video premiere to "What About My Son" at The Road to Sound.
A 'genuine stunner' from Bec Plexus
Stereogum calls Bec Plexus's new single "mirror image" a "genuine stunner." The single is out now via Apple Music and Spotify. Her avant electronica debut STICKLIP is out April 24. Pre-order your copy at Bandcamp.