hear now berlin. - MUSIC in CIRCLES (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Prepare to embark on a journey of sonic wonder with hear now berlin's debut album, MUSIC in CIRCLES. Featuring works by some of the most exciting composers of our time, this album is a celebration of music's boundless potential for human expression and emotion.

At the heart of the album lies Andrew Norman's Music in Circles, a mesmerizing work that takes us on a journey through a hall of mirrors. With its symmetrical structure and recurring refracted scale motif, the piece invites us to contemplate the infinite and the eternal.

Gabriella Smith's Maré is a masterful exercise in organic evolution, as shimmering textures give way to ominous growls and ecstatic washes of sound. Caroline Shaw's Draft of a High-Rise is a work of stunning virtuosity and complexity, a musical kaleidoscope of sweeping melodies, warm harmonies, and jittery passages.Nathan Schram's HNB is a true highlight of the album, a funky and full-throttle ride through feel-good soundscapes that demands the utmost from its virtuosic performers. And hear now berlin's flutist and founder, Kelly Watson Woelffer, contributes her own powerful work, the (un)raveling, a reflection on the challenges of motherhood and creativity during the pandemic.

Throughout the album, the musicians of hear now berlin deliver performances of exquisite precision and emotional depth, capturing a wide range of human experience, from fragility to risk, from simplicity to complexity.

Kelly Watson Woelffer, flute, alto flute
Jens Thoben, clarinet, bass clarinet
Paul Hübner, trumpet, flugelhorn
Meike-Lu Schneider, violin
Alexina Hawkins, viola
Edward King, cello

Tracklist:
01. Maré
02. HNB
03. Music in Circles
04. Inked Frame
05. A Scribbled Veneer
06. Their Stenciled Breath
07. the (un)raveling


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