Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld
Two of Constellation's acclaimed solo instrumental artists join forces on this tremendous new album of original compositions for horn and violin.

Stetson and Neufeld first began playing in duo formation while on tour together as soloists in 2012, joining each other on stage for one or two of their respective pieces. Stetson had also collaborated in the past with Bell Orchestre and Arcade Fire, and with Neufeld and Shahzad Ismaily in an improv trio dating back to 2010 (including the Blue Caprice soundtrack). Read Full BioTwo of Constellation's acclaimed solo instrumental artists join forces on this tremendous new album of original compositions for horn and violin.

Stetson and Neufeld first began playing in duo formation while on tour together as soloists in 2012, joining each other on stage for one or two of their respective pieces. Stetson had also collaborated in the past with Bell Orchestre and Arcade Fire, and with Neufeld and Shahzad Ismaily in an improv trio dating back to 2010 (including the Blue Caprice soundtrack). Duo compositions for their debut album emerged throughout 2014, and were road-tested that spring with performances at the Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Canada) and Moers Festival (Germany). The album was recorded without overdubbing, looping, sampling, cutting or pasting at their farmhouse attic studio in rural Vermont by Hans Bernhard and mixed in Montreal by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire).

"Never were the way she was" is guided by the metaphorical narrative of the life of a girl who ages slow as mountains; excited, exalted, and ultimately exiled in her search for a world that resembles her experience. The album's expansive sonic trajectory and multiplicity of structures and voicings belies the fundamental economy of two acoustic instruments combining in real time. The result is a musical chronicle that powerfully establishes its own spatial and temporal horizon, a soundtrack that requires no images but profoundly compels the imaginative. From the filigreed ostinato polyrhythms of “The sun roars into view” and “In the vespers” to the stately long tones of “And they still move”, the dark drone-inflected sea-saw waltz of “With the dark hug of time” to the growling, pulsing thrust of the album’s epic centerpiece “The rest of us”, Stetson and Neufeld offer up an incredible (and impressively diverse) integration of composition, performance, timbre and texture while holding their respective instruments in sparkling juxtaposition. Never were the way she was is a sum quite definitively and thrillingly greater than its parts.

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Release date: 28 April 2015
Running time: 42:51

PACKAGING NOTES
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve. LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.

TRACKLIST
1. The sun roars into view
2. Won't be a thing to become
3. In the vespers
4. And still they move
5. With the dark hug of time
6. The rest of us
7. Never were the way she was
8. Flight

CREDITS
PERSONNEL
All songs written and performed live (no overdubs/loops) by Colin Stetson (tenor and bass saxophones, contrabass clarinet) and Sarah Neufeld (violin, voice).

Engineered by Hans Bernhard at The End of the World.
Mixed by Mark Lawson at Sonobee.
Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering.
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The Sun Roars Into View
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld Lyrics


We have lyrics for these tracks by Colin Stetson:

A Dream of Water There were those, who didn’t run, there were those, who coul…

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J-P Claudel

And to think that the music is so beautiful.

MS A

Dramatic epitome...

i have a bulimic mind

amazing

Dude Man19

A Marble Ocean Swims in Freeform
The Sky Lies Draped in Stippled Velvet
Like so many Sun Spots, a Gradient
Into the Darkening Morning.
and there She is.
She has found the pieces of herself,
of her past and her terrible, glorious future;
Now is the time for remaking.
- - -
It was by instinct, she would later realize
when her death returned her here once more,
that she had stepped out onto that Crystal Sea;
The soul is always eager to heal.
But her foot does not break the surface,
Meeting the water firmly
And she begins to glide as angels might
Into the Darkening Morning.
Mountains, made pale by distance,
Slowly roll in the Gradient Wake of the Sun
As Banners or as Clouds,
And with a Wave of a Finger
Or a Flutter of her Heart,
The Horizon Folded and Flew.
Faster and Faster and Faster,
Her hair catches wind whipping behind her,
The Ripples on the Water
Run in Rivulets of Nebulæ and Neurons
In her Growing Wake, like the World was Stretching
Like so many Scales on the Serpent's Back,
In a Weightless Cloud behind her.
It is a Dream, perhaps, but Defined
In a kind of Limitless way.
And by God,
she feels Freer than she had in months
Her shadows dance about her,
Gathering as if from nowhere
The parts of a person
Long ago left forgotten.
- - -
The Healing Begins
Her many Pieces, as Shards of Stained Glass,
Gather and lay themselves upon her,
Until she is Made all over from their Color
Passing forward in Butterflies and Feathers,
Wisps of Memories, Feelings, Pains
The Glorious Varieties of Life
- - -
The Cloud falls away, finished
A soft call alights the Aer.
The Darkening Morning Breaks,
With the Cry reaching it's Peak
And Behold
The Sun Breaks Upon Her,
It's Light Falls Upon her Chest
And Oh, how She Glows
Like The Windows of a Church,
As Coral might in Glass,
An Opal Of Infinity, A Diamond of Galaxies
The Simple Complexity of Being;
The Ringing of A Soul Completed
Is a Glory Beyond All Compare.
- - -
The Waves Settle
The Sun Fades into Wakefullness
And She Awakens Anew
The Person She Is No Longer
As The Person She Was Before

And Somehow, She Knows
She will Again Return to that Place,
Where She will Become All Over Again
As The Sun Roars Into View.

Quelza

@Dude Man19 This is a wonderful and extremely powerful text , and it touched me deeply thanks a lot for taking the time to do that.

🖤

Dude Man19

@Quelza it was me. A very particular image came to me as i listened to this, and I wanted to share as best i could.

Quelza

This is beautiful , who wrote it ? Thank's a lot for sharing this

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