The National’s Bryce Dessner and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry Curate New Album, Share New Song: Listen

The National’s Bryce Dessner is spearheading the debut album from the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. It’s called Black Mountain Songs, and it’s out March 31 via New Amsterdam Records. The project was created by Dessner, and co-curated by Dessner and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry. Listen to Dessner’s contribution to the album, “Black Mountain Song,” and find the tracklisting below. The album is a studio recording of an evening-length stage work of the same name, which premiered at BAM’s 2014 Next Wave Festival. Dessner plays guitar on the album, while Parry performs guitar and bass.

Black Mountain Songs is a celebration of Black Mountain College. It features music from Dessner and Parry, Caroline Shaw, Jherek Bischoff, John King, Nico Muhly, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and a collaboration between Dessner and Tim Hecker.

Black Mountain Songs:

01 Black Mountain Song (Bryce Dessner)
02 there is a sound (Richard Reed Parry)
03 Its Motion Keeps (Caroline Shaw)
04 ars imitatur naturam (John King)
05 My World (Bryce Dessner)
06 Bubbles (Aleksandra Vrebalov)
07 Childhood’s Retreat (Jherek Bischoff)
08 Fielding Dawson in Franz Kline’s Studio (Nico Muhly)
09 Maximus to Gloucester (Bryce Dessner)
10 Spaceship Earth (Richard Reed Parry)
11 M.C. Richards (Tim Hecker and Bryce Dessner)
12 Anni’s Constant (Caroline Shaw)
13 Their Passing in Time (Richard Reed Parry)

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