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FILAMENT

by eighth blackbird

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Omie Wise 03:15
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Young Emily 03:50
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Dark Holler 02:23
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Wave The Sea 01:59
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Brushy Fork 01:45
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Pretty Polly 02:39
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Doublespeak 09:06
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To Love 02:03
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Two Pages 16:20
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Celebrated new-music sextet eighth blackbird, whose last three Cedille Records albums garnered Grammy® awards, continues to soar with Filament, a selection of four world premiere recordings plus a concert performance of Philip Glass’s influential Two Pages. Filament offers first recordings of Bryce Dessner’s Murder Ballades, a fresh and surprisingly upbeat take on a macabre genre of folk music; Nico Muhly’s Doublespeak, an homage to Glass and the insistent, propulsive repetitions of classic minimalism; and short pieces by Son Lux, To Love and This is my Line,” creative remixes of sounds from other tracks on the CD. Dessner, on guitar, and Muhly, on organ, join eighth blackbird for Glass’s Two Pages, recorded live-in-concert at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. A sextet of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano, eighth blackbird combines the finesse of a string quartet, the energy of a rock band, and the audacity of a storefront theater company. The Chicago-based “super-musicians” (Los Angeles Times) are “a polished, personable, routinely dazzling sextet.” (New York Times)

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released September 11, 2015

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