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Whorls

Kittel & Co.

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Format: CD

Cat No: COM47102

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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Pando
      • 2. The Boxing Reels
      • 3. Alpena
      • 4. Home In The World
      • 5. Preludio
      • 6. Interlude
      • 7. Chrysalis
      • 8. Fields Of Brooklyn
      • 9. Waltz (featuring Sarah Jarosz)
      • 10. Ohmstead
      • 11. Nethermead