Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon Album First Sounds out now via Envision Records
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Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon Album First Sounds out now via Envision Records
Artist:
Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon
Place:
Brussels
Date:
Tuesday, 3. December 2024
First Sounds, out via Envision Records in North America and One Little Independent in the UK and the rest of the world, is the debut album from a trio made-up of cellist Rebecca Foon, violinist Sarah Neufeld and multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry. The group originally met in Montreal, Quebec, during the late 1990’s while independently finding their footing in the local arts and culture community. For two years, Rebecca, Sarah and Richard collaborated in various capacities before embarking on their respective musical careers.
The LP collects nine compositions, with dynamic minimalism, sweeping crescendos and rich harmonies. The expressive instrumentation, experimental undertones, and ambient textures are crafted with expert musicianship and technical symbiosis. Richard Reed Parry explains; “In Montreal, October 1999, the three of us played music with each other for the first time. As we began to improvise together, we felt a shared, wordless musical language emerge right away, somehow intuitive and familiar from the very start. We experimented and played together often at that time - Montreal was and still is a very creative and multi-faceted artistic hive of activity. The musical chemistry we found together was formative in each of the bands we went on to form and musical collaborations we pursued, but we never made a recording of our original trio and its unique, intimate and explorative sound. Decades of friendship and many bands later, in the heart of the first pandemic winter the three of us got together in a room and made our first album as an ensemble. Picking up exactly where we left off years earlier, we began fashioning compositions that immediately tapped into the same musical language we had discovered between us so many years earlier.”
Tracklist
1, Slow New Year
2. Duelling Flutters
3. Maria
4. Rosa Canina
5. Day Three
6. Clouding Clouds
7. First Sound
7 . Circular
7.Georgia
Music credits
All songs written by Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, and Rebecca Foon
Recorded at Dreamland Studios by Ariel Shafir. Additional recordings at Skybarn in Montréal by Pietro Amato
Produced by Shahzad Ismaily
Mixed by Pietro Amato
Sarah Neufeld: Violin, Vocals
Richard Reed Parry: Double Bass, Guitar, Drum Machines, Percussion, Vocals
Rebecca Foon: Cello, Vocals
Percussion on “Maria” by Shahzad Ismaily
Drums on “Day Three” by Andrew Barr
Mastered by Phil Gosselin at Le Lab
