Release Date: 29 June 2018
Label: Compass
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 766397471020
Genres: Folk  American Folk  
Release Date: 29 June 2018
Label: Compass
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 766397471020
Genres: Folk  American Folk  
Description
Fronted by acclaimed violinist Jeremy Kittel -- formerly of the Grammy award-winning Turtle Island Quartet -- contemporary string quintet Kittel & Co. has announced their ethos-centric debut album 'Whorls', out April 13 via Compass Records. Inhabiting the space between classical and acoustic roots, Celtic and bluegrass aesthetics, folk and jazz sensibilities, 'Whorls' is an 11-track compilation of visceral, yet precise musicianship -- accompanied on one track by the ghostly harmonies of Sarah Jarosz.
Kittel demonstrated a similar scope as a composer-arranger-collaborator for such diverse artists as My Morning Jacket, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, and Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. Now, the Brooklyn-based artist has built his own repertoire of music for a wholly original new group.
Comprised of Kittel, mandolin phenom Josh Pinkham (named "the future of the mandolin" by Mandolin Magazine), genre-bending guitarist Quinn Bachand (a presidential scholar at Berklee College of Music), transcendent cellist Nathaniel Smith (as heard with Sarah Jarosz and Kacey Musgraves), and hammer-dulcimer wizard Simon Chrisman (acclaimed for bringing a new tonal flexibility to the instrument), Kittel & Co. captures a sonic landscape that is equally as unpredictable as it is captivating.
Tracklisting
Woody Platt
Mike Farris
Mindy Smith
Rebecca Frazier
Alison Brown
John McEuen
Altan
Missy Raines
Various Artists
Nora Brown
The Down Hill Strugglers
Chris Kasper
Wyndham Baird
Various Artists
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams