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Hynes: Fields / Third Coast Percussion
Cedille

Hynes: Fields / Third Coast Percussion

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Details

Composer
HYNES, DEVONTE
Artist
Third Coast Percussion, Hynes
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
Oct 11, 2019
Catalog #
CDR 192
UPC
735131919227

About

A 2020 double GRAMMY nominee, for both Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance and Best Engineered Album!

Grammy Award-winning, Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion teams up with influential, genre-defying multi-instrumentalist, record producer, songwriter, singer, and composer Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) for an album of imaginative, evocative instrumental music created as the live soundtrack for choreography by the adventurous Hubbard Street Dance Chicago company. The album’s three works, all world-premiere recordings, represent Hynes’s debut on disc as a classical composer. In Perfectly Voiceless, Philip Glass-style minimalism gives way to a catchy pop melody. There Was Nothing blends synthesizer sounds with bowed mallet percussion instruments and moments of meditative lyricism recall the music of Lou Harrison. The expressive harmonies within the gauzy textures of For All Its Fury point to Hynes’ love of Debussy. Third Coast arranged Hynes’ music for its immense collection of diverse instruments and performed them on stage with the Hubbard Street dancers in Chicago and on tour. The Los Angeles Times praised Hynes’ “lush score” and Third Coast’s ability to summon “otherworldly sounds from a multitude of idiophones, drums and other devices.” Chicago’s New City Stage applauded Third Coast’s “extraordinary performance” and “ceaseless river of sound.”

REVIEW:

Third Coast Percussion grabs onto the Ambient Minimalism of the music of composer Devonte Hynes on the recent album Fields (Cedille CDR 90000 192), which creates universes of sound primarily out of mallet interlockings and ambient electronics. If New Music could remind you of some album track in Prog Rock, this could qualify for its cosmicality and spacey directedness.

This is New Music for people who may not much like New Music, or for those unfamiliar with such things. It is primarily good music beyond category.

I fully recommend this one for all progressive folks, for those who do not mind or even welcome a bit of groove and New Music fans who are open to the new in whatever form our artists see fit, regardless of preconceptions. Minimalists will also take heart I suspect. For this is very good indeed.

– Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Reach 02:32
    Track
    1
    Title
    Reach
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  2. 2 Blur 01:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    Blur
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  3. 3 Coil 03:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    Coil
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  4. 4 Wane 01:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    Wane
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  5. 5 Curl 01:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    Curl
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  6. 6 Hush 01:53
    Track
    6
    Title
    Hush
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  7. 7 Gather 05:53
    Track
    7
    Title
    Gather
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  8. 8 Tremble 01:52
    Track
    8
    Title
    Tremble
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  9. 9 Cradle 05:25
    Track
    9
    Title
    Cradle
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  10. 10 Press 03:27
    Track
    10
    Title
    Press
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  11. 11 Fields 06:05
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fields
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  12. 12 Perfectly Voiceless (arr. S. Connors, R. Dillon, P. Martin and D. Skidmore for percussion ensemble) 11:31
    Track
    12
    Title
    Perfectly Voiceless (arr. S. Connors, R. Dillon, P. Martin and D. Skidmore for percussion ensemble)
    Duration
    11:31
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  13. 13 There Was Nothing (arr. S. Connors, R. Dillon, P. Martin and D. Skidmore for percussion ensemble) 13:41
    Track
    13
    Title
    There Was Nothing (arr. S. Connors, R. Dillon, P. Martin and D. Skidmore for percussion ensemble)
    Duration
    13:41
    Composer
    Devonté Hynes
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion