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Roomful of Teeth

Render (CD)

Label: New Amsterdam Records

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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The sophomore album from Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, Render has been praised as encompassing "bounteous diversity and ingenuity" (Tiny Mix Tapes) and as "a veritable embarrassment of vocal riches" (Textura). Building on the group's widely acclaimed first album, which won the 2014 GRAMMY for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and included Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices, Render delights and surprises.

The album features compositions from Missy Mazzoli, William Brittelle, Wally Gunn, Brad Wells, Caleb Burhans, and Eric Dudley, and has received a 2016 GRAMMY nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

The new collection of works is consistently, unstintingly gorgeous, inviting listeners into an unimaginably varied sound world, all while showcasing Roomful of Teeth's trademark virtuosity. Render could be considered a companion to the group's first record - it features the same singers, engineer, cover artist, and some of the same composers as the first, and it includes a remarkable multi-movement work spread across the album - but this second record is very much in a class of its own.

Details
Cat. number: NWAM065
Year: 2015
Notes:
Recorded August 14-16, October 20-21, 2014 at Systems Two Recording Studio Brooklyn, New York Vesper Sparrow Text by [...], from the book Great Guns (modified for Roomful of Teeth in August 2012) Each piece used by permission of the composer This album was made possible in part by funding from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University and New Music USA. ©2015 Roomful Of Teeth The track name prefix "The Ascendent" (tracks 2, 5, 9) is not mentioned in the tracklist. The liner notes, however, state that "The Ascendent" consists of "The beginning and", "The fence is gone", and "Surviving death". Released in standard Digipak with 4-panel fold-out insert.