Rhythm Nation PUBLIQuartet

• Fodé Lassana Diabaté: Sunjata’s Time (Arr. for String Quartet by Jacob Garchik):
• 1 Diabaté: Sunjata’s Time (Arr. for String Quartet by Jacob Garchik): I. Sumaworo 04:19
• 2 Diabaté: Sunjata’s Time (Arr. for String Quartet by Jacob Garchik): III. Nana Triban 04:25
• 3 Diabaté: Sunjata’s Time (Arr. for String Quartet by Jacob Garchik): IV. Bala Faseké 03:22
• Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) (b. 1987): Baobab:
• 4 Patton): Baobab 06:00
• Janet Jackson (b. 1966): Rhythm Nation Remix:
• 5 Jackson: Rhythm Nation Remix: I. We the People 01:35
• Henry Threadgill (b. 1944): Sixfivetwo:
• 6 Threadgill: Sixfivetwo 13:01
• Janet Jackson: Rhythm Nation Remix:
• 7 Jackson: Rhythm Nation Remix: II. Janet's Test 00:29
• Jeff Scott (b. 1965): Blues for Buddy:
• 8 Scott: Blues for Buddy 05:07
• Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974): Come Sunday:
• 9 Ellington: Come Sunday 03:04
• Eddie Venegas: Cachumbambeando En Clave:
• 10 Venegas: Cachumbambeando En Clave 02:53
• Mazz Swift: Digging Gold / Deeper Blue:
• 11 Swift: Digging Gold / Deeper Blue 04:48
• Janet Jackson: Rhythm Nation Remix:
• 12 Jackson: Rhythm Nation Remix: III. Outro 01:58
• Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) (b. 1971): Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes, Book I:
• 13 (DBR): Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes, Book I: No. 10. C-Sharp Minor 02:26
• Total Runtime 53:27

Info for Rhythm Nation

Als Fortsetzung des GRAMMY®-nominierten Projekts „What Is American“ von PUBLIQuartet zelebriert „What Is American: Rhythm Nation“ amerikanische rhythmische Traditionen als Ausdruck körperlicher Autonomie und stillschweigender Geschichtsbewahrung. Von den treibenden Beat-Breaks in Daniel Bernard Roumains „Hip-Hop Etudes“ bis hin zu den wechselnden Klangtexturen in Andy Akihos „Quartet No. 1 – Mobile on a Stream into the Sound“ umfasst diese breit gefächerte Erkundung auch neue Werke von Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift und Eddie Venegas, die mit Unterstützung eines Stipendiums für künstlerische Projekte von Chamber Music America für das Jahr 2024 in Auftrag gegeben wurden. Jedes der Stücke auf dem Programm beschwört eine ganz eigene rhythmische Welt herauf, die die Vielfalt amerikanischer Bewegungen widerspiegelt und den unausgesprochenen Geist der Erzählungen ihrer Tradition bewahrt.

PUBLIQuartet

PUBLIQuartet
Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from newly commissioned pieces to re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet.

PUBLIQuartet has held artist residencies at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Sawdust, and has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Montreal, Newport and Detroit Jazz Festivals. Their 2016 appearance on The Colbert Report, “Requiem for a Debate” – in which they improvised a live soundtrack to the third presidential debate – not only received over a million views, but saw the Washington Post declaring them “the winner…indubitably.” Their 2023-2024 season included performances at USC and the Library of Congress, with the New York City Ballet, as well as tour dates with jazz artists including Hiromi, Diane Monroe, and Magos Herrera.

The quartet’s latest album, the GRAMMY®-nominated What Is American, released in June 2022 on the Bright Shiny Things label, explores resonances between contemporary, blues, jazz, freely-improvised, and rock-inflected languages, all of which trace their roots back to the Black and Indigenous musical traditions that inspired Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet (Op. 96). The album also includes CARDS 11-11-2020, written by Roscoe Mitchell for PUBLIQuartet, as well as works by Ornette Coleman, Rhiannon Giddens, and Vijay Iyer.

Committed to creating an inclusive performance space, supporting living composers of varying genres, and expanding the classical canon, PUBLIQuartet was the inaugural ensemble-in-residence for Carnegie Hall’s PlayUSA program in 2021-2022, working with high school music classes across the country on a large-scale creative project called Reflections on Resilience. Their innovative PUBLIQ Access program has promoted emerging composers by presenting a wide variety of under-represented music for string quartet–from classical, jazz and electronic, to non-notated, world and improvised music. Other unique projects include MIND | THE | GAP, a series of creative projects developed by PQ that weave together different styles of music via group composition, arranging, and improvisation. These unique works range from “Bird in Paris” (Claude Debussy meets Charlie Parker) to more recent extended works including Reflections on Beauty, a multimedia celebration of the life and legacy of Madam C.J. Walker featuring visual projections and narration by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles.

Founded in 2010, PUBLIQuartet is based in New York City.​

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