A wide range of ideas from composers Nathan Hudson and Ben Loory, in terms of both instrumentation and composition, are presented on this digital release of modern musings.
Clarinetist Andy Hudson joins with Annie Jeng for a duet entitled “Brace Yourself” which has warm Hudson’s woody tones chasing and prancing after Jeng’s spry ivories like a cat and mouse. Hudson melds with cellist Andrea Moore along with the voices of Andrea Moore and Brian Carter for some haunting harmonies on “Music For Falling/Flying” that hover like dark clouds about to burst into a torrential storm. Conducted by Jonathan Poquette, Moore and Carter and supported by the strings of Nathan Southwick/vi, Karl Ronnevik and percussionist Isaac Pyatt, and along with Hudson and Jeng, wax and wane along a poetic “The Duck” that is Barkotian in it’s sonority, while the thoughtful “God” is a modern, almost liturgical conversaion between man, angel and God that is Job-like in its searching message. Probing pens.