"Petits Artéfacts," the forthcoming debut from Grammy-winning, Eighth Blackbird-founding cellist Nick Photinos, features new music from an impressive array of new and established voices, including Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang, rocker-cum-composer Bryce Dessner and heralded composer-of-the-moment Andrew Norman.
In advance of the release, watch Photinos and ubiquitous percussionist Doug Perkins perform jazz pianist/composer Pascal Le Boeuf's teeth-rattling roller coaster ride Alpha.
The music is comprised of hard-grooving, stop-start cells and seemingly takes its cues from high-anxiety Hitchcock film music imbued with elements of vintage funk, John Bonham-style pummeling and free jazz. The intensity sits firmly at eleven the whole time and director Michael McQuilken's fast-cut and dizzying camera work only heightens the drama.
Petits Artéfacts is due August 25 on New Amsterdam Records.
