On October 14, 2022, New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records officially released The Blue Hour, and we couldn't be more excited to share this beautiful album with you. Back in 2016, A Far Cry commissioned a full-length song cycle to be written collaboratively by five female composers: Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider. After a dynamic and collaborative creative process, The Blue Hour was born. We are thrilled to see this out in the world, and we are grateful to New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records, the production and engineering teams, Carolyn Forché, and the composers with their incredible vision for turning this dream into a reality.

Set to excerpts from Carolyn Forché’s epic poem “On Earth,” the music follows one woman’s journey through the space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non-linear images. Exploring memories of childhood, of war, of love, and of loss, The Blue Hour amplifies the beauty, pain, and fragility of human life from a collective female perspective.