PRESS RELEASE: The Grey Land "claims a place for the Black experience in Western classical music"
Out now: 'The Grey Land,' a mono-opera on race in 21st century America from Numinous & Joseph C. Phillips
"With his stirring meditation on racial injustice, Phillips confronts a classical tradition that has often been used to ennoble its white subjects to the exclusion of others,"
-New Yorker
Composer and bandleader Joseph C. Phillips' mono-opera The Grey Land, featuring his ensemble Numinous is out today. Featuring soloists soprano Rebecca L Hargrove and narrator Kenneth Browning, the undefinable work, written in Phillips signature "mixed music" style, chronicles a single Black mother and her son for a dynamic exploration of race, class and power in 21st century America.
Experience Tristan Perich's 'unapologetically beautiful' new recording for 50 violins & 50 1-bit speakers
"Throughout episodes of ecstatic, shimmering reverie and eerie white-noise stasis, Perich’s music casts a mesmerizing spell."
-New Yorker
"Charts a new course for the fusion of composition and electronics."
-Pop Matters
The rave reviews continue to roll in for Tristan Perich's "unapologetically beautiful" (The Wire) Drift Multiply, a recording featuring 50 violins and 50 1-bit speakers that came out last week as a co-release from Nonesuch Records.
'Remember the Uncomplicated Joys' with Methods Body
"Of course, art will adapt and go on in new and unpredictable ways ... And we will rise up with others to ensure the voice of the compassionate majority is heard." Read experimental duo Methods Body's personal essay on making music in 2020 in New Music Box & watch the video for "the most calming & unsettling moment of the album" (Pitchfork).