It’s GRAMMY® FYC season and we’ve been BUSY!
A Far Cry has THREE albums eligible in multiple categories! Click the images below to listen to each album now!
New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records released The Blue Hour, a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova , Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider; featuring excerpts from Carolyn Forché’s epic poem On Earth.
Released October 2022 The Blue Hour is eligible in the following categories:
> Best Contemporary Classical Composition
> Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
> Best Engineered (Classical)
> Producer of the Year (Classical)
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Vocals: Shara Nova
Additional vocals: members of A Far Cry, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Sarah Kirkland Snider
Strings: A Far Cry
Sound design: Michael Hammond, with Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider
Produced by Rachel Grimes and Shara Nova
Artistic Production team: Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Andrew Scheps, Alex Fortes, and Jesse Lewis
Mixed by Andrew Scheps, Tonequake
Mastering by Helge Sten, Sten Audio Virus Lab
Strings recorded at Futura Productions, Roslindale, MA
Chief Recording Engineer and String Producer for A Far Cry: Jesse Lewis, Immersive Music Project
Recording and editing engineer: Kyle Pyke
Additional string editing: Shauna Barravecchio, Christopher Moretti, Karl Doty
Chief Recording Engineer for Futura: John Weston
Assistant Engineers for Futura: Travis Karpak, Jacob Steingart
Lead Vocal Engineer: Patrick Dillett at Reservoir Studios, New York City
Assistant Engineer: James Yost
Second Engineer: Peter Jensen
Additional vocal engineering: Shara Nova at Blue Sword Studios, Detroit
Lead vocal editor: Casey Foubert
Vocal pre-production mixing: Mitchell Graham
Album design & layout: DM Stith
A Gentleman of Istanbul: Symphony for Strings, Percussion, Piano, Oud, Ney & Tenor featuring Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and George Lernis was recorded at Futura Productions back in June 2021 and released April 2023 on Crier Records. It is eligible in the following categories:
> Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
> Best Contemporary Classical Composition
“A Gentleman of Istanbul is an exceptional work — deeply moving, authentically multicultural, and instantly re-listenable. A Far Cry and Sanlıkol have nailed it with this collaboration ...” – San Francisco Classical Voice
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A Far Cry, strings
George Lernis, percussion
Jesse Lewis, producer
Christopher Moretti and John Weston, recording engineers
Travis Karpak and Jacob Steingart, assistant engineers
Christopher Moretti, mixing engineer
Jesse Lewis and Shauna Barravecchio mastering engineers
Album cover collage design by DM Stith
Studio footage filmed by Dan Schwartz
Animation by Jeff Claassen
Video edited and directed by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
Awadagin Pratt’s STILLPOINT was released August 2023 via New Amsterdam and features six newly-commissioned works by Alvin Singleton, Jessie Montgomery, Judd Greenstein, Paola Prestini, Pēteris Vasks, Tyshawn Sorey; performed by Pratt, A Far Cry, and vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.
STILLPOINT is eligible in the following categories:
> Best Classical Instrumental Solo
> Best Contemporary Classical Composition
> Best Album Notes
> Best Engineered (Classical)
Executive Producer: Mark Rabideau
Producers: Mark Rabideau, Judd Greenstein, Jesse Lewis
Recording Engineer: Francisco Gonzalez Navarro
Engineering Assistant: Christopher Moretti
Editing Engineers: Christopher Moretti, Shauna Barravecchio
Mixing Engineer: Jesse Lewis
Mastering Engineers: Christopher Moretti, Shauna Barravecchio
Piano: Awadagin Pratt
Composers: Alvin Singleton, Jessie Montgomery, Judd Greenstein, Paola Prestini, Pēteris Vasks, Tyshawn Sorey
Sponsors: ArtsWave Cincinnati, Art of the Piano Foundation, Yamaha
License agreement for use of T.S. Eliot poetry: Faber & Faber Limited
Vocals: Roomful of Teeth
Strings: A Far Cry
