DESCRIPTION:
Nadia Sirota & Nico Muhly - Keep In Touch
(Alarm Will Sound, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
Release Date: 30th September
Pre-Order: https://bedroomcommunity.bandcamp.com/album/keep-in-touch
Label: Bedroom Community

Nico Muhly is a virtuoso of keeping in touch, a hub for the vast network of friends and collaborators around the world that he's constantly checking in on with with personal or musical questions or scandalously inappropriate humor. Even when he is the only person awake in a hotel room in the middle of the night on a strange continent, there is someone, somewhere, that he can ping—What's going on? What's happening? How about now?—to satisfy his need for human connection.

Keep in Touch, especially in its original version, was premised on the fear of never quite managing to make that connection. Its two soloists—violist Nadia Sirota and vocalist Anohni, of Antony and the Johnsons—were recorded separately, so that Anohni was virtually present, her part constructed from pass after pass of vocal improvisations, while Nadia's was added later, all in one long, live take.