Andrew McIntosh - Hyenas in the Temples of Pleasure
PR006
release date: Oct. 14th, 2014
available formats: compact disc // digital
"...probing, intelligent and simply, sensually gorgeous... ...one of the most enjoyable things I've heard this year."
- Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
Featuring two large-scale pieces by composer Andrew McIntosh, Hyenas in the Temples of Pleasure is the first full-length album of his works. The centerpiece of the album is a quartet for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists combining conventional and custom-built instruments, commissioned, performed, recorded, and mixed by New York-based group Yarn/Wire. The rest of the album consists of the Symmetry Etudes, a book of eight pieces for two clarinets and violin heard here for the first time in their entirety. The Etudes were written for and are performed by James Sullivan, Brian Walsh, and Andrew McIntosh, and are brilliantly mixed and mastered by frequent populist records collaborator Nick Tipp. The CD includes an 8-page full color booklet.
release date: Oct. 14th, 2014
available formats: compact disc // digital
"...probing, intelligent and simply, sensually gorgeous... ...one of the most enjoyable things I've heard this year."
- Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
Featuring two large-scale pieces by composer Andrew McIntosh, Hyenas in the Temples of Pleasure is the first full-length album of his works. The centerpiece of the album is a quartet for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists combining conventional and custom-built instruments, commissioned, performed, recorded, and mixed by New York-based group Yarn/Wire. The rest of the album consists of the Symmetry Etudes, a book of eight pieces for two clarinets and violin heard here for the first time in their entirety. The Etudes were written for and are performed by James Sullivan, Brian Walsh, and Andrew McIntosh, and are brilliantly mixed and mastered by frequent populist records collaborator Nick Tipp. The CD includes an 8-page full color booklet.