Five years ago, New Amsterdam Records released Place by Ted Hearne. On 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.