Brink - Utility Music
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Label: Sono Luminus
Cat No: SLE70027
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 4th November 2022
Contents
Works
AlbatrossAt Night
Aura for M
Baptism in the Field
Colombo/Green Fingers
Eastwood no.4
Eventually Lapse
Miniatures
Pattern Shells
Simple Trio II
Simple Trio
Artists
Julian Brink (guitar)Matt Demerritt (woodwinds)
Tyler Neidermayer (clarinet)
Meredith Moore (horn)
Joe Auckland (trumpet)
Juliane Gralle (brass)
Hanna Rabe (harp)
Max Gaertner (vibraphone, percussion)
Dan-Iulian Drutac (violin)
Nick Revel (viola)
Joe Zeitlin (cello)
Gabe Noel (double bass)
Works
AlbatrossAt Night
Aura for M
Baptism in the Field
Colombo/Green Fingers
Eastwood no.4
Eventually Lapse
Miniatures
Pattern Shells
Simple Trio II
Simple Trio
Artists
Julian Brink (guitar)Matt Demerritt (woodwinds)
Tyler Neidermayer (clarinet)
Meredith Moore (horn)
Joe Auckland (trumpet)
Juliane Gralle (brass)
Hanna Rabe (harp)
Max Gaertner (vibraphone, percussion)
Dan-Iulian Drutac (violin)
Nick Revel (viola)
Joe Zeitlin (cello)
Gabe Noel (double bass)
About
In collaboration with eminent classical label Sono Luminus, Utility Music is Brink's first standalone release. Originally composed in 2019 as a score for an abandoned film project, the music was arranged for piano, harp and string trio. It was later repurposed, reorchestrated and combined with a few older pieces into what is its current form. The album features performances by several distinguished musicians, with the heart of the music being the string trio of Moldovan violin virtuoso Dan-Iulian Druțac; Nick Revel, violist of the Grammy-nominated PUBLIQuartet; and Joe Zeitlin who was the lead cellist on Mica Levi’s Oscar-nominated score for Pablo Lorraín’s Jackie.
The title is a reference to both the German ‘gebrauchsmusik’ - music that was written not for its own sake but for a specific event or purpose - as well as the expedient nature of the recording process. Performers being recorded individually is common practice in popular music but less so in the world of classical music. Utility Music was self recorded during the summer of 2020 by Brink and the featured musicians in bedroom studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, Frankfurt and Hamburg. In Brink's second bedroom in his West Hollywood apartment, he had only a few hours of quiet each day to record, between the dying down of street noise and the insects in the evening. Grammy-winning mix engineer Brian Losch was tasked with achieving the illusion of a group of musicians performing together in a single space.
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