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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.

TRACKS

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Flight
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Flight' by these artists:

&C [Featuring Pizzo] [C Bo] It's 1994 gang bangin' done pla…
Anoushka Shankar ft. Norah Jones One flight down There's a song on low And your mind just…
Autumn Tears mirror reflects pools of water dripping timelessly from sc…
BLU-SWING ウインドウあげて見た君の後ろ姿見知らぬ街で目に入るあの景色言葉もわからず行方も知れずポケットに隠した地図と…
BREMEN Feel like awaking lost way, to lost way, to lost way Keep…
Brett Rigby Let me run through a field in the night Let me…
Casual Fan June 17th I missed my flight on the way back…
Casualties of Cool And so it goes The window left open I find myself drawn T…
D. S. R. Throw your hands up high Somebody jump and touch the sky Let…
Dark Castle birds fly skies sigh…
Devin Townsend Here i am, driving through japan at night here i am,…
Embrace One Riding the slipstream of the skies Sailing between the day a…
Feist Three oh three, three oh three Three oh three, three oh…
Flock of Dimes She is spinning like a planet She is never quite at…
Frank Ocean Yeah I’m hitchhiking love Could you take me to the hills I’m…
Gomez Caught a flight, full of drugs Shoot straight at a view To…
Good And Gone Space is colder Than the air in the mountains Where I come…
H.Z. You fail, who's the Chosen One? Flight of the Knight Bat Gre…
Innocent Cabbage Come play the waiting game It's so close when time…
Jerry Jean Another chance to start again There's no reason you should b…
John Denver Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced…
Josh Young Let me run through a field in the night Let me…
Juliette Commagere Steel grey wires Laid out across the sky They draw my eye Aw…
K-Group Flying Blind I alway forget how crazy things are So someti…
Lifehouse I've lost my balance I fell from the trapeze This act isn'…
Max and the Makeups (M--Mitchell; L--DuBois) Night flights on a music ship / lea…
Megan McGinnis & Sutton Foster Let me run through a field in the night Let me…
Moonbeam I close my eyes Hiding from more than words There's no mor…
Neurosis Power Too weak to stand up the power Mentally castrated S…
Peter Hammill Flying Blind I alway forget how crazy things are So sometime…
Peter Hammill & The K Group Flying Blind I alway forget how crazy things are So someti…
Rare Bird Flowing rivers, craggy mountains sigh Wondering, watching …
Renaissance I watched you to fly away today You held me close…
Royal Hunt Eye's of the night, keepin' me right, Engine is roarin' lik…
Son Lux Let's be anyone but us, tonight Trade this heavy cage of…
Steve Aoki Throw your hands up high Somebody jump and touch the sky Let…
Strawbs I wish I were a bird Then I could fly I'd see…
Sutton Foster Let me run through a field in the night Let me…
Sutton Foster and Megan McGinnis Let me run through a field in the night Let me…
The Boxer Rebellion You Eh why you looking at me You got something to hide I…
The Honor System We lie in bed for days Empty bottles consuming empty space I…
The Strawbs I wish I were a bird Then I could fly I'd see…
The Sweep I'm losing all my hope I'm losing all my hope Lights fall…
Zao Within the chamber of my soul I find don't know as…
Zucchero & Ronan Keating Yeah, yeah, mm mm Stray cats in a mad dog city Nine…

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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