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Sarah Hennies

The Reinvention of Romance (2 LP)

Label: Astral Spirits

Format: 2LP

Genre: Experimental

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“The Reinvention of Romance,” a new work for percussion and cello that examines the care and empathy that emerge when two lives share space. Over the course of 90 minutes, a series of repeating patterns creates a peculiar kind of harmony in which two musicians are rarely “playing together” but are nonetheless intimately bonded. The Knoxville-based duo Two-Way Street (Ashlee Booth and Adam Lion) commissioned Hennies to compose “a very long piece;” for this recording they step into its two intertwining roles.

Details
Cat. number: n/a
Year: 2020

Release notes

Catalogue number on spine is AS128; in runouts it is AS138, which is correct. First pressing of 500 copies on black vinyl. Recorded July, 2019 at Neighbors Gallery, Ithaca, NY

Tracklist
ASide A
BSide B
CSide C
DSide D
Credits
Ashlee Booth
Cello, Performer [Two-Way Street]
Sarah Hennies
Composed By, Engineer, Mixed By, Photography By [Cover]
Greg Piwonka
Design, Layout
A.F. Jones
Mastered By
Adam Lion
Percussion, Performer [Two-Way Street]
Two-Way Street
Performer
Esoteros

“In [Hennies' album] is reflected the grueling odyssey of everyday life, the absurd yet irrenounceable insistence of the close encounter between lovers, at once the most elementary and complex relational nucleus on which human existence is based. [...] “The Reinvention of Romance” undoubtedly stands among the most unusual and bold artistic statements encountered this year.”