Byron: Awakening at the Inn of the Birds

Release Date: Mar 1, 2003

Artists: Gregg August, Sarah Cahill , et al.

Record Label: Cold Blue Label

Composer: Michael Byron

Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
Number of Discs: 1
ASIN: B00008VGL8

Available on Bandcamp, Apple Music, and Spotify.

Tracklist:

  1. Continents of city and love
    for 2 pianos, synthesizer, string quartet & double bass
    with Joseph Kubera, Kathleen Supove, Gregg August, Sarah Cahill

  2. Tidal
    for 2 pianos, synthesizer, string quartet & double bass
    with Joseph Kubera, Kathleen Supove, Gregg August, Sarah Cahill

  3. Evaporated pleasure, for 2 pianos
    with Joseph Kubera, Sarah Cahill

  4. Awakening at the inn of the birds, for string quartet

  5. As she sleeps, for piano
    with Sarah Cahill

Reviews:

“It’s stunning…a fascinating listen.”

– Mark Alburger –

“Truly bewitching…an intriguing mix of tranquillity and restlessness.”

– Richard di Santo –

“The music flows elegantly, charged with an intriguing power, thoughtful, sometimes even evocative of the twilight.”

– All About Jazz (Italy) –


“As it calms you, it plants seeds of doubt, even disturbance in your head.”

– Fanfare magazine –


“Performances are as good as one would expect from so stellar a group of players.”

– International Record Review –

About the Artist:

“There is a dark allure to Michael Byron’s music, a seductive otherness.”

– Dusted magazine –

Description:

Michael Byron’s music is one of contrasts, noted for its intertwining of minimalist and maximalist techniques and rigorous processes with freely composed music. In its unique way, it reconciles traditional notions of beauty with boisterous, almost-out-of-control instrumental writing. This new CD collects four of Byron’s very recent works and a new recording of a piece from 1981, all performed by some of today’s most-respected new-music champions, including keyboardists Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera, and Kathleen Supové and the FLUX Quartet. “It’s wonderful that music can have such power to (en)lighten the soul and that Michael has the gift to so empower us.”–Richard Teitelbaum