Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld

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Two of Constellation's acclaimed solo instrumental artists join forces on this tremendous new album of original compositions for horn and violin. Stetson and Neufeld first began playing in duo formation while on tour together as soloists in 2012, joining each other on stage for one or two of their respective pieces. Stetson had also collaborated in the past with Bell Orchestre and Arcade Fire, and with Neufeld and Shahzad Ismaily in an improv trio dating back to 2010 (including the Blue Caprice soundtrack). Duo compositions for their debut album emerged throughout 2014, and were road-tested that spring with performances at the Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Canada) and Moers Festival (Germany). The album was recorded without overdubbing, looping, sampling, cutting or pasting at their farmhouse attic studio in rural Vermont by Hans Bernhard and mixed in Montreal by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire). "Never were the way she was" is guided by the metaphorical narrative of the life of a girl who ages slow as mountains; excited, exalted, and ultimately exiled in her search for a world that resembles her experience. The album's expansive sonic trajectory and multiplicity of structures and voicings belies the fundamental economy of two acoustic instruments combining in real time. The result is a musical chronicle that powerfully establishes its own spatial and temporal horizon, a soundtrack that requires no images but profoundly compels the imaginative. From the filigree

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Never Were The Way She Was

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LateNightTales

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Blue Caprice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Late Night Tales - Ólafur Arnalds (Unmixed)

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Late Night Tales Ólafur Arnalds

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Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds (DJ Mix)

Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds

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Late Night Tales - Ólafur Arnalds

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Late Night Tales

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Relaxing Contemporary Classical

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LateNightTales - Olafur Arnalds

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