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The Brooklyn Rider Almanac - Brooklyn Rider (2014)
September through the years: from my September 2014 list, also featuring Perfume Genius, Flying Lotus, and Cold Specks
Brooklyn Rider are a quartet that loves to stay in the modern composer space. Here they’ve commissioned music from a wide range of composers, including a number who wouldn’t normally make chamber music.
Tracks I Liked
Necessary Henry! - The platonic ideal of modern chamber music, as far as I’m concerned. Playful, open, and bracing.
Show Me - Goat Rodeo collaborator Aofie O’Donovan brings some bluegrass flavor
Dig The Say - Vijay Iyer takes the quartet out for a brisk run
John Steinbeck - A Bill Frisell (o_o o_o) composition that sounds very much like Bill Frisell. BR plays it excellently
