Owl Song CD + MP3 Bundle

Owl Song CD + MP3 Bundle"This is my reaction to being assaulted by information," composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire says of his Nonesuch debut album, Owl Song, featuring a trio with two musicians he has long admired, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Herlin Riley. "This record is me wanting to create a safe space. Part of the challenge was: Can I create something that's oriented around open space, the way some of the records I love the most do?" The New York Times

Shaw and Sō's Eric Cha-Beach and Adam Sliwinski "sourced a group of nineteenth-century poems that shaped its expressive mode [and] ended up using verses by Christina Rosetti

On Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw's album Orange

riffed-out power back to pop's lexicon

Mojo calls it "a kaleidoscopic affair

and Marquis Hill—In These Times highlights McCraven’s unique gift for collapsing space

a two-disc compilation of essential tracks culled from the band’s previously released studio recordings

says Playbill: "The score is revealed to be as glitteringly faceted as the production itself

and radiates palpable warmth

with musical direction by Seth Rudetsky

breaks the pattern of the rainstorm

"An exceptional record

" Rob Moose of yMusic adds: "It was as much a thrill to hear songs emerge organically over sections of intricate chamber music as it was satisfying to strip songs of the instrument that created them in order to craft new connective tissue