Never were the way she was, by Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld Duo

Never were the way she was

by Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld Duo

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Robert Day Complexity washes over me. Favorite track: Never Were the Way She Was.

maciekmik gets me in a trance like feeling. I really enjoy the soundscape and I feel lots of different emotions when listening to this beautiful duo! Favorite track: Never Were the Way She Was.

dead_editor I love the unique rhythms and stylistic choices in the instrumentation. The songs have a diverse range of feeling; dark, dissonant, bright, ambient. Truly an experience to listen through the entire album and take a journey with the songwriters. Favorite track: The Rest of Us.

Mohan Thomas Both Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld are each capable of filling a soundstage by themselves, with rich, complex, beautiful music. It's remarkable how good they sound together. Highly recommended.

neur0dancer i had the luck to hear, see and feel Stetson live last April, and he really is the loudest saxplayer on Earth!

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1.	The Sun Roars Into View 07:37	buy track
2.	Won't Be a Thing to Become 03:24	buy track
3.	In the Vespers 06:01	buy track
4.	And Still They Move 02:56	buy track
5.	With the Dark Hug of Time 06:33	buy track
6.	The Rest of Us 06:30	buy track
7.	Never Were the Way She Was 08:12	buy track
8.	Flight 01:38	buy track

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Two of Constellation's acclaimed solo instrumental artists join forces on this tremendous new album of original compositions for horn and violin.

Colin Stetson has developed a unique and highly-acclaimed voice as a performer/composer, chiefly on bass and tenor saxophones, rallying an array of technical strengths and innovations to make some of the most captivatingly organic, darkly soulful and otherworldly solo instrumental work of recent years with his New History Warfare trilogy. The solo violin work of Sarah Neufeld has emerged more recently, and especially through 2011-2014, in the period between her primary band Arcade Fire's last two albums; she's forged a distinctive and evocative solo violin practice combining rock, folk, ambient and modernist sensibilities, culminating with her debut solo album Hero Brother in 2013.

'Never were the way she was' charts an expansive sonic trajectory with a multiplicity of structures and voicings that belies the fundamental economy of two acoustic instruments combining in real time. The resulting musical chronicle powerfully establishes its own spatial and temporal horizon; Stetson and Neufeld offer up an impressively immersive integration of composition, performance, timbre and texture. 'Never were the way she was' is a sum quite definitively and thrillingly greater than its parts.

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released April 28, 2015

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