Stetson & Neufeld Collaborate On Album

COLIN STETSON & SARAH NEUFELD ANNOUNCE NEW COLLABORATION LP NEVER WERE THE WAY SHE WAS 

TO BE RELEASED ON CONSTELLATION RECORDS APRIL 28TH, 2015

PREMIERE TRACK “THE SUN ROARS INTO VIEW”

Two of Constellation’s acclaimed solo instrumental artists join forces on this tremendous new album of original compositions for horn and violin.

Colin Stetson has developed a unique and highly-acclaimed voice as a performer/composer, chiefly on bass and tenor saxophones, rallying an array of technical strengths and innovations to make some of the most captivatingly organic, darkly soulful and otherworldly solo instrumental work of recent years with his New History Warfare trilogy.  The solo violin work of Sarah Neufeld has emerged more recently, and especially through 2011-2014, in the period between her primary band Arcade Fire’s last two albums; she’s forged a distinctive and evocative solo violin practice combining rock, folk, ambient and modernist sensibilities, culminating with her debut solo album Hero Brother in 2013.

Never were the way she was charts an expansive sonic trajectory with a multiplicity of structures and voicings that belies the fundamental economy of two acoustic instruments combining in real time. The resulting musical chronicle powerfully establishes its own spatial and temporal horizon; Stetson and Neufeld offer up an impressively immersive integration of composition, performance, timbre and texture. Never were the way she was is a sum quite definitively and thrillingly greater than its parts.

Never were the way she was Tracklisting

01.The sun roars into view

02. Won’t be a thing to become

03. In the vespers

04. And still they move

05. With the dark hug of time

06. The rest of us

07. Never were the way she was

08. Flight

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld European Tour Dates

04.11.15 – The Twisted Pepper – Dublin, IE

04.13.15 – Temple – Cully, CH

04.15.15 – Bad Bonn – Düdingen, CH

04.17.15 – Islington Assembly Hall – London, UK

04.18.15 – Porgy & Bess Jazz & Music Club – Vienna, AT

04.20.15 – Kset – Zagreb, HR

04.22.15 – Jazzhouse – Copenhagen, DK

04.23.15 – Victoria – Nasjonal Jazzscene – Oslo, NO

04.24.15 – Sardinen, USF – Bergen, NO

04.25.15 – Dokkhuset Scene – Trondheim, NO

04.28.15 – Handelsbeurs Concert Hall – Gent, BE

04.30.15 – Lantaren Venster – Rotterdam – NL

05.01.15 – De Oosterpoort – Groningen, NL

05.02.15 – Club Cross Linx – Amsterdam, NL

05.03.15 – Effenaar – Eindhoven, NL

Sarah Neufeld Solo Tour Dates

05.26.15 – Orpheum Theatre – Madison, WI *

05.27.15 – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO *

05.28.15 – W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre – Louisville, KY *

05.29.15 – Egyptian Room – Indianapolis, IN *

05.30.15 – Nelsonville Music Festival – Nelsonville, OH

05.31.15 – Tennessee Theatre – Knoxville, TN *

06.02.15 – The Fillmore Charlotte – Charlotte, NC *

06.03.15 – The National – Richmond, VA *

08.01.15 – 08.02.15 – Wanderlust Festival – Whistler, BC

* w/ St. Vincent