PRESS RELEASE: Debut album from chamber trailblazers Hub New Music out today
Soul House from Hub New Music + composer Robert Honstein is out today
Soul House, the debut album from "contemporary chamber trailblazers" (The Boston Globe) Hub New Music, is out today on all digital platforms. Soul House, a nine-movement meditation on memory and nostalgia by composer Robert Honstein, takes listeners into nine deeply personal, yet utterly relatable, places.
Listen to the album now on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music, and watch the Four/Ten Media-produced video for the track "Landing" below.
Getting to know 21st-Century classical
We're honored to have so many composers within the NewAm family included in "5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers" from The New York Times. The piece features Gabriella Smith's "Carrot Revolution," performed by Aizuri Quartet, Caroline Shaw's "Partita for Eight Voices," performed by Roomful of Teeth, and Joseph C. Phillips Jr.'s "19" performed by Numinous, all on recordings we've released. Take a look at the full feature for so many compositions we love!
P.S. - Roomful of Teeth have two new EPs coming later this month featuring composers Wally Gunn and Michael Harrison. We're also releasing Phillips' mono-opera "The Grey Land" in November.
Composer Ted Hearne at The Daily Beast
Earlier this we released the recording of Place, from Ted Hearne in collaboration with Saul Williams, a vast musical exploration that examines gentrification and so much more.
Hearne writes:
"When I moved to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Mayor Bloomberg’s third term was careening forward with hubris and the rents were rising. The bodega on my corner started stocking Greek yogurt and when the hardware store closed an oyster bar sprung up in its place. The Times called my new neighborhood the ZIP code with the greatest disparity of wealth in the city. Stop-and-frisk was operating in full force, and sometimes I saw children subjected to an unconstitutional search outside my front window. The year I moved away, a movie star bought a brownstone on my block."
Read the full essay over at The Daily Beast and enjoy the stunning video!