The Passion

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Jeffrey Brooks’s genre-bending music is enthralling – his Passion drives forward hypnotically, while After the Treewatcher is an addictive electric guitar-led riot. Fantastic, taut performances. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: CA21146
Label: Cantaloupe
Length: 40 minutes

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Brooks, Jeffrey: After the Treewatcher

Work length7:53

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Bang on a Can All-Stars, Contemporaneous
David Bloom

Brooks, Jeffrey: Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother

Work length11:08

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Jeffrey Brooks (tape)
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Contemporaneous
David Bloom

Brooks, Jeffrey: The Passion

Work length21:30

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Molly Netter (voice), Lucy Dhegrae (voice), Philippa Thompson (voice)
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Contemporaneous
David Bloom

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As a long-time friend of Bang on a Can’s founding composers and a creative firebrand in his own right, Jeffrey Brooks makes music that shimmers with bold intensity and an enveloping warmth. Big expressive gestures, heavy basslines, echoes of pop and rock, jagged dissonance and New York-style “downtown” noise are all signatures of his vibrant and electric sound.

Brooks might be best known for his wind ensemble work Dreadnought (1996), but perhaps just as significantly, he is one of the few modern classical composers with a penchant for chasing rhythm in a way that even dancefloor DJs can understand. (2015, dedicated to Steve Martland) and the epic title.

The Passion collects three of his most compelling works: After the Treewatcher, Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother (dedicated to Steve Martland) and the epic title piece. Featuring edgy, raucous performances by the Bang on a Can All-Stars (with Taylor Levine subbing on guitar for Mark Stewart) and the New York-based large ensemble Contemporaneous, conducted by David Bloom, the recording is, in essence, a tribute to the lasting power of friendship, and a triumph of the human spirit.

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August 2019

Jeffrey Brooks’s genre-bending music is enthralling – his Passion drives forward hypnotically, while After the Treewatcher is an addictive electric guitar-led riot. Fantastic, taut performances.

August 2019

A disc which utterly satisfies on both aesthetic and emotional levels.

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