Strata
Details
- Composer
- Anna Appleby, Michael Cryne, Charlotte Harding, Clare Loveday, Benjamin Oliver, Denise Ondishko, How
- Artist
- Laefer Quartet
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Coviello
- Released
- Apr 05, 2024
- Catalog #
- COV92401
- UPC
- 4039956924012
About
“Whether the subject is geology, oceanography, meteorology, or sociology, a stratum is a layer that is distinguished in some way from the layers below and above it…”
Tim Rutherford-Johnson - on Strata.
The Laefer Quartet’s debut album, Strata, presents a body of previously unrecorded music that explores the different ways we interact, intertwine, and impose on the natural world around us. A collaborative ethos has formed a central part of the album's creation, which features six commissioned pieces alongside visual artworks based on a synaesthetic response to the music. The album guides listeners upwards across various ‘strata’: starting from the rumblings of the New York subway, moving through various natural, mechanical, and political phenomena that form the stratum we, as humans, typically occupy, into the skies we fly through and the stars we gaze upon, before finally bursting into the ethereal and beyond, all the while exploring the varied and exciting sonic possibilities the saxophone quartet has to offer. Featuring works by Charlotte Harding, Michael Cryne, Benjamin Oliver, Clare Loveday, Anna Appleby, Denise Ondishko, and Howard Skempton.
Tracklist 8 tracks
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1 Sub, to Street, to Scraping the Sky 05:28
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Sub, to Street, to Scraping the Sky
- Duration
- 05:28
- Composer
- Charlotte Harding
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet
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2 Frost Flower 10:06
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Frost Flower
- Duration
- 10:06
- Composer
- Michael Cryne
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet
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3 Avalanche 10:13
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Avalanche
- Duration
- 10:13
- Composer
- Benjamin Oliver
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet
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4 I. — 06:13
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. —
- Duration
- 06:13
- Composer
- Clare Loveday
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet
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5 II. — 08:04
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. —
- Duration
- 08:04
- Composer
- Clare Loveday
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet
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6 Electric Aeroplanes 09:43
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Electric Aeroplanes
- Duration
- 09:43
- Composer
- Anna Appleby
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet
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7 Star Clusters 09:29
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Star Clusters
- Duration
- 09:29
- Composer
- Denise Ondishko
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet
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8 Zephyrs 03:38
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Zephyrs
- Duration
- 03:38
- Composer
- Howard Skempton
- Ensemble
- Laefer Quartet