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01. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Requiem #1 (Leftover Beats)
02. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Such Closer #1
03. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - How to Keep, Forever
04. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Someone to Watch You, Parts 1-3 (September)
05. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Stage Whisper (or, The Inability to See the Present in the Present) (October)
06. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Confidence White (November)
07. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Songbird
08. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Requiem #2 (Well)
09. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Shallow Times
10. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Such Closer #2
11. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - Requiem #3 (Future)
12. Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation - How to Know, Forever (Evasiveness)
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Leftover Beats from the Edge of Time
FORMAT
2CD

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ESPDISK 5069CD ESPDISK 5069CD
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RELEASE DATE
10/22/2021

The latest release from polymath and musical maximalist Gabriel Zucker is a sprawling and ambitious achievement that defies categorization, featuring complex mixed-meter jazz, virtuosic chamber music, electronic soundscapes, and indie art rock -- performed with emotion and urgency by Zucker's virtuoso large ensemble The Delegation. Written primarily between 2015 and 2018, during several stints Zucker spent living and performing in England and throughout Europe, the record reckons with time, and with the competing impulses of a backwards-looking nostalgia and a forwards-looking futurist belief in progress. Leftover Beats is built on a dialog between two different ensembles: Several movements are performed by a chamber ensemble, while the rest feature a larger ensemble of horns, rhythm section, and voices more firmly rooted in jazz. The work is split into four sections of three movements each. Past is manic and alive, culminating in contrapuntal chamber-music romanticism. Autumn 2016 focuses mainly on November; the night of the election is grotesquely illustrated. Present feels subdued and chastened in its aftermath. Future is a dreamscape of synthesizer and sound collage nightmares punctuated by a Mahler-esque climax in "Requiem III", before we close on Zucker's solo piano in "How to Know, Forever", drifting off into the sands of time. An album release show will take place at Roulette, located at 509 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, on Tuesday, October 5th at 8:00 PM.

Personnel: Gabriel Zucker - piano, compositions, lyrics, vocals, electronics; Adam O'Farrill - trumpet; Nolan Tsang - trumpet; Anna Webber - tenor saxophone; Eric Trudel - tenor saxophone; Yuma Uesaka - clarinet; Joanna Mattrey - viola; Mariel Roberts - cello; Artemisz Polonyi - vocals; Lorena Del Mar - vocals; Bam Rodriguez - bass; Mat Muntz - bass; Gabriel Globus-Hoenich - drums; Alex Goldberg - drums; Kate Gentile - drums; Matteo Liberatore - guitar; Tal Yahalom - guitar.