5-time Grammy-winning fusion collective Snarky Pet will launch a brand new album, recorded with the famend Dutch orchestra Metropole Orkest in November. The band have additionally shared a video for the monitor Waves Upon Waves.
Somni is the second collaboration between the band and orchestra, and can. be launched by GroundUp Music on November 21. They first launched the Grammy-winning Sylva again in 2016.
“It’s by far essentially the most bold challenge we’ve ever carried out, and it was one of many smoothest information we’ve ever made,” says bassist/composer Michael League. “Each particular person group did their job with a lot care and love – from the digital camera operators to our manufacturing. The moment suggestions was the warmest we’ve ever had. It was encouraging to know that after 22 years of doing what we do, the music remains to be reaching folks.”
Metropole Orkest, based in 1945, is the world’s solely full-time orchestra devoted to jazz and pop music, and is right here carried out by Jules Buckley.
Somni, the Catalan phrase for ‘dream’, displays League’s life in Barcelona. He started composing the fabric in rural Japan, the place he spent a month alone in an Airbnb. “I simply form of gave myself a month to put in writing,” he recollects. “It was in the midst of nowhere, fully alone.”
Snarky Pet & Metropole Orkest: Somni
1. Waves Upon Waves
2. As You Are
3. Chimera
4. Between Worlds
5. Recurrent
6. Drift
7. Solely Right here
9. It Stays With You
