Heart, by Endangered Quartet

Heart

by Endangered Quartet

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1.	Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale BWV 244/44 03:08	buy track
2.	Tim Kiah: The Honey Makers 02:54	buy track
3.	Roy Nathanson: Same, Same 03:40	buy track
4.	Lennon/McCartney: Blackbird 03:26	buy track
5.	Ornette Coleman: The Circle With a Hole in the Middle: Part B 01:57	buy track
6.	Jesse Mills & Hugo Dwyer: Marbles 01:34	buy track
7.	Jesse Mills: Con Anima 04:33	buy track
8.	Ornette Coleman: The Circle With a Hole in the Middle: Part A 01:35	buy track
9.	Tim Kiah, Roy Nathanson, Jesse Mills, Curtis Fowlke & Hugo Dwyer: Sweet Intentions 01:34	buy track
10.	Tim Kiah & Hugo Dwyer: Cry Of The Wild 04:01	buy track
11.	Tim Kiah: Endangered Hearts 04:49	buy track
12.	Jesse Mills: Edges 03:24	buy track
13.	Roy Nathanson & Hugo Dwyer: Bombardment Reconsidered 05:38	buy track
14.	Huddie Ledbetter: Goodnight Irene 04:14	buy track

about

The Endangered Quartet came into being through friendships that developed between musicians over a course of years, playing songs and sharing ideas outside of the context of the existing projects they were currently engaged in. They have developed this new quartet sound, a diverse chamber music blending classical, jazz, rock, and folk idioms. They are committed to a vision of honest and soulful expression — endangered but essential human values.

"The origins of the Endangered Quartet lie in an informal get-together that took place two years ago in the Brooklyn living room of the group’s saxophonist, Roy Nathanson. Nathanson and three cherished musical cohorts—trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, bassist Tim Kiah, and violinist Jesse Mills—had come together to explore a shared interest in forming a composing collective.

“That first meeting was magical,” Nathanson, the group’s saxophonist, remembers. “We built it around the idea of letting the instruments have a certain intimacy together, one that allowed for the compositions to breathe.” The quartet soon booked a gig at a neighborhood coffee shop and the project blossomed quickly. From the beginning, the only rule the group committed to was that there would be no hierarchy.

That decision, and the unflinching support given by producer Hugo Dwyer, gave the ensemble the freedom to fashion an album as varied as “Heart,” a remarkable debut that moves seamlessly between ecstatic revelry and melancholy empathy. The many pleasures found here include Kiah’s uncanny arrangement of a Bach Chorale, Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird” delivered as a tender dirge, and original compositions like Mills’ “Con Anima,” highlighted by Fowlkes’ haunting trombone lines, or the supple balladry of the group composition, “Sweet Intentions.”

“This band feels like getting together with your friends when you’re younger, and we’re not younger.” Nathanson says. That’s a perfect description of the combination of joyful enthusiasm and musical depth that mark each of these songs, a mixture that left this listener in a state of appreciative transcendence."

-Dan Kaufman, liner notes from the booklet

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released May 22, 2020

Produced and Engineered by Hugo Dwyer

All tracks were recorded at Figure 8 Recording, Brooklyn, NY:

3, 4, 7, 11, 14: November 26, 2017, Assisted Engineer - Nate Mendelsohn

5, 6, 8, 9, 10: July 23, 2018, Assisted Engineer - Michael Coleman

2, 12, 13: July 25, 2019, Assisted Engineer - Nate Mendelsohn

Additional recording and mixing took place Out Back Where The Horse Used To Live,

Manhattan, NY

Cover: Starling, by Monique Luchetti

Group Photo: Charna Meyers

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New Focus Recordings is an artist led collective label featuring releases in contemporary music of many stripes, as well as new approaches to older repertoire. The label was founded by guitarist Daniel Lippel (who is the current director), composer engineer Ryan Streber, and composer Peter Gilbert in 2003-4, and features releases from many of new music's most active performers and composers. ... more

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