The Blue Hour HD FLAC Album (44kHz/24bit)

The Blue Hour HD FLAC Album (44kHz/24bit)The Blue Hour is a song cycle born of a collaboration among five composersRachel Grimes, Anglica Negrn, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snidercommissioned and performed by the chamber orchestra A Far Cry, who are joined by singer Shara Nova. Set to excerpts from Carolyn Forchs epic poem On Earth, the music follows one womans journey through the liminal space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non linear images.

says the New York Times

Rolling Stone raves: "A sumptuous immersion in '70s California folk pop

groove-oriented improvised music

along with the original liner notes by librettist Alice Goodman and by Michael Steinberg

These 13 tracks—mostly written by Tuttle and Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show)—capture the electric energy of the band’s live shows by highlighting each members’ musical strengths

recorded in September 2020 at Philharmonie de Paris

from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars

improvisational jazz

"Brilliant stuff

" says Pitchfork

temperamentally and intellectually as suited to the challenges of these sonatas

led by director Joel Cohen