eighth blackbird: meanwhile

The remarkable new-music ensemble eighth blackbird has won Grammy Awards for its last two albums on Cedille Records. Now, the “polished, personable, routinely dazzling sextet” (New York Times) returns with meanwhile, an album highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of contemporary classical music. “With each track,” eighth blackbird writes, “a new door is opened, releasing unexpected sounds and dramas.”

Chicago-based eighth blackbird presents “some of the most kinetic, exuberant and purely pleasurable music to be found anywhere” (Washington Post). That’s precisely what awaits listeners on the newest CD from the ensemble that the Los Angeles Times called “examples of a new breed of super-musicians.”