The Space Between Us, by Akropolis Reed Quintet

The Space Between Us

by Akropolis Reed Quintet

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1.	Jesus Is Coming 09:21	info	buy track
2.	Refraction: I. Death Metal Chicken 01:41	info	buy track
3.	Refraction: II. Kyrie for Machaut & Pärt 04:31	info	buy track
4.	Refraction: III. Goat Rodeo 04:11	info	buy track
5.	Gallimaufry 09:59	info	buy track
6.	The Space Between Us: I. Coming Together 01:38	info	buy track
7.	The Space Between Us: II. As One 02:53	info	buy track
8.	The Space Between Us: III. Remembering 05:52	info	buy track
9.	The Space Between Us: IV. Ever Constant 03:02	info	buy track
10.	The Space Between Us: V. The More We Change 03:07	info	buy track
11.	Sorrow & Celebration (Live) 14:49	info	buy track

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The Space Between Us is the third studio release from Akropolis Reed Quintet, a group with a singular instrumentation, well on its way to redefining how modern wind chamber music groups present classical music. It’s an album about conflict and resolution, a story of how art and its reflection on life can bring people together.

It opens with the first studio recording of Jacob TV’s “Jesus Is Coming” for reed quintet, a composition that juxtaposes fragments of speech and babble against traditional chamber writing. It’s followed by four Akropolis commissioned works. A raucous amalgam of influences, David Biedenbender’s Refraction by turns evokes heavy metal, the vocal music of Guillaume de Machaut, and dubstep. The delicate, often meditative “Gallimaufry” by Rob Deemer belies the chaos implied by the title, while title track The Space Between Us by Gregory Wanamaker explores changing relationships through language, texture, color, and harmony. The album closes with John Steinmetz’s “Sorrow and Celebration,” which imitates a ceremony or ritual, calling people together to mourn and rejoice.

Formed in 2009 at the University of Michigan and winner of the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, the Akropolis Reed Quintet takes listeners on extraordinary imaginative musical adventures. They have commissioned more than 25 new reed quintet works, published a catalog of original and arranged reed quintet sheet music, and have garnered more than 22,000 online views for the Web Premiere video series of new reed quintet repertoire. Akropolis injects its dynamic repertoire into communities and schools around the country, and in 2015 won the Fischoff Educator Award. The group was recently awarded two grants from Chamber Music America and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs for a January 2017 community residency in Detroit.

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released March 24, 2017

Tim Gocklin, Oboe
Matt Landry, Saxophone
Ryan Reynolds, Bassoon
Andrew Koeppe, Bass Clarinet
Kari Landry, Clarinet

Producer: Courtney Snyder Ng
Production Assistants: Theresa Zick & Nick Smith
Recorded at Bethlehem United Church of Christ
in Ann Arbor, MI May 2016
Recorded, Edited, Mixed, & mastered by Dave Schall Acoustic
Photos by Heather Nash Photography
Album Art by Kari Landry

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Akropolis Reed Quintet Detroit, Michigan

Celebrating their 12th year and hailed by Fanfare Magazine for “infallible musicality and huge vitality,” and who's third album "The Space Between Us" was dubbed "Pure Gold" by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Akropolis Reed Quintet has won seven national prizes including a Fischoff Gold Medal. ... more

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