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WHAT IS AMERICAN

PUBLIQuartet, Jannina Norpoth (leadvocalist), Curtis Stewart (leadvocalist), Nick Revel (leadvocalist), Hamilton Berry (leadvocalist), A’Lelia Bundles

WHAT IS AMERICAN

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The album explores the wealth of styles that trace their roots back to American indigenous and Black music, and deploys the quartet’s formidable improvisatory skills to intriguing effect...The...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20224 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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WHAT IS AMERICAN

PUBLIQuartet, Jannina Norpoth (leadvocalist), Curtis Stewart (leadvocalist), Nick Revel (leadvocalist), Hamilton Berry (leadvocalist), A’Lelia Bundles

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The album explores the wealth of styles that trace their roots back to American indigenous and Black music, and deploys the quartet’s formidable improvisatory skills to intriguing effect...The...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20224 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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About

  • Release date: 17th Jun 2022
  • Label: Bright Shiny Things
  • Catalogue number: 738715292587
  • Length: 66 minutes

Contents and tracklist

PUBLIQuartet, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Fifth Verse: Prelude
Work length0:49
  • PUBLIQuartet
Dvořák: Improvisations on Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96 "American"
Work length21:41
I. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length6:24
II. Lento
Track length7:02
III. Molto vivace
Track length3:57
IV. Vivace ma non troppo
Track length4:18
Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser's Option (Arr. by PUBLIQuartet for String Quartet)
Work length4:48
PUBLIQuartet, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Fifth Verse: Page of Her Story
Work length0:23
  • PUBLIQuartet
Waller: Improvisations on Honeysuckle Rose
Work length3:40
  • PUBLIQuartet, A’Lelia Bundles
Coleman, O: Improvisations on Law Years and Street Woman
Work length4:49
  • PUBLIQuartet
PUBLIQuartet, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Fifth Verse: Land of the Free
Work length0:24
  • PUBLIQuartet
Iyer: Dig the Say
Work length8:57
  • PUBLIQuartet
I. carry the ball
Track length2:55
IIa. this thing together
Track length2:22
IIb. up from the ground
Track length0:57
III. to live tomorrow
Track length2:43
PUBLIQuartet, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Fifth Verse: Interlude
Work length1:00
  • PUBLIQuartet
Roscoe Mitchell: CARDS 11-11-2020
Work length8:46
  • PUBLIQuartet
Tina Turner: Black Coffee (Arr. by PUBLIQuartet for String Quartet)
Work length1:38
Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different (Arr. by PUBLIQuartet for String Quartet)
Work length3:15
Alice Coltrane: Er Ra (Arr. by PUBLIQuartet for String Quartet)
Work length2:32
  • PUBLIQuartet
Ida Cox: Wild Women Don't Get the Blues (Arr. by PUBLIQuartet for String Quartet)
Work length3:19
  • PUBLIQuartet

Awards and reviews

  • Grammy Awards
    65th Awards (2023)
    Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

September 2022

The album explores the wealth of styles that trace their roots back to American indigenous and Black music, and deploys the quartet’s formidable improvisatory skills to intriguing effect...The recording feels a touch dry but there is a thrilling immediacy to the playing itself.
4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)
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