Eighth Blackbird - Singing in the Dead of Night

Groundbreaking new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird, winners of four Grammy Awards for their previous Cedille Records albums, are heard in the world-premiere recording of a collaborative, all-instrumental program of intensely rhythmic works written expressly for the Chicago-based ensemble by the founders of the celebrated Bang on a Can composers collective. Each piece on Singing in the Dead of Night takes its name from Paul McCartney�s lyrics to The Beatles song �Blackbird� � but this music exists in another realm altogether. Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe�s title track conjures a dark, silent solitude from which creative inspiration emerges. Michael Gordon�s music melds �the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism (The New Yorker). In The Light of the Dark, he evokes the wild spontaneity of an uninhibited, late-night jam session. Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang�s three-movement These Broken Wings, a �glamorously beautiful suite� (The Guardian), takes flight via Eighth Blackbird�s boundless stamina and high-voltage virtuosity.