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Metropolis Ensemble creates a ground-breaking and highly-technical approach to studio productions that are rare in an industry that favors swift release of live recordings.
Featured Project
Telekinesis
Our 2023 album featured Tyondai Braxton’s monumental 87-piece ensemble with electric guitars, orchestra, choir, and electronics was released on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records and received a prestigious Opus Klassik nomination.
More Projects in this Collection
A New Album from Sarah Kirkland Snider featuring her debut orchestral recordings on New Amsterdam Records / Nonesuch Records.
Metropolis Ensemble, Erik Hall, Sandbox Percussion announce collaborative album of Simeon ten Holt's masterpiece of minimalism.
Erika Dohi’s studio album with producer William Brittelle, releasing October 24 on Switch Hit & Figure 8 Recording.
Metropolis Ensemble and MetLiveArts’ co-commissioned work, Life Returns, from composer Matthew Evan Taylor.
Released May 17, 2024 on Metropolis Ensemble Records with Molly Joyce, Andrew Cyr, Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and Mike Tierney.
Released March 22, 2024 on Nonesuch Records with Timo Andres, Silas Brown, and Andrew Cyr.
March 22, 2024 on Merge Records
Seminal indie rock duo Wye Oak, Paul Wiancko (strings), and Metropolis Ensemble are releasing a reimagined version of the band's 2014 record, Shriek, to celebrate its 10-year anniversary.
November 11, 2022 on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records
Tyondai Braxton’s Opus Klassik-nominated album, Telekinesis — the first studio recording of an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars, orchestra, choir and electronics.
April 15, 2022 on Stretch Music and Ropeadope
Composer, pianist, vocalist, and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes released his new album, GRIEF with Metropolis Ensemble / Argus Quartet.
February 6th, 2022
Claire Dickson's album release celebration, with Grey Mcmurray and Lesley Mok
Starland is Claire Dickson's debut album as a solo artist and producer, created on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle and in her Brooklyn apartment. With guitarist Grey Mcmurray and drummer Lesley Mok, this music comes alive with added spontaneity and imagination.
December 12th, 2021
Gather at LPR to celebrate the release of 3 albums from New Amsterdam, including NOW Ensemble and Sean Friar’s Before and After, Phong Tran’s The Computer Room, and Charlotte Greve’s Sediments we move.
Grief is a new project of revolutionary songs by pianist-vocalist-composer Samora Pinderhughes. It speaks truth to power, calling out the sufferings caused by racial capitalism, policing and prison systems, and oppressive ideologies. These are freedom songs, abolitionist songs, and songs that unpack what so many have experienced this past year, while also suggesting pathways for collective response and resistance.
“Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Matthew Evan Taylor.”
Composer Vivian Fung created this Spotify playlist, including Violin Concerto from our studio album, Dreamscapes, performed by violinist Kristin Lee.
Matthew Evan Taylor’s The Unheard Mixtapes has reconciled his artistic identity as a classical composer focused on social justice, Black expressive culture, and experimentalism.
Metropolis will be in residency at Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) state-of-the-art facilities in Troy, New York in 2021.
“William Brittelle. I can’t say enough good things about that guy. He’s such a special person. He has such a strange mind and wild ear for aesthetic choices.”
It’s such a sweet and timely gift to the world. It feels like a hug and a reality check all in one - something the world really needs right now.
July 24, 2020 on 37d03d
The “We Are Not Machines: Meta Version” is a truly mind-bending other-side-of-the-sonic-coin version, masterminded and arranged by visionary composer William Brittelle.
This is the kind of big, bold, sometimes even crazy symphonic work of which we could use a lot more, with orchestral brass and strings competing with fat synthesizers, rock drums, choral singing, and more.
On paper, the project could appear bombastic, what with the army of resources utilized, yet he somehow makes full use of said resources without the result becoming overblown.
With this collaboration between Nonesuch Records and New Amsterdam, walls of genre are broken down as sounds morph and blend throughout Spiritual America.
Brittelle’s inimitable blend of chamber pop forms a shape-shifting sonic collage: ripped edges, buzzing synthesizers, melodies that echo, morph, and transform in an instant—like a rush of memories overwhelming the senses.
COMPOSER MOLLY HERRON AND ARGUS QUARTET CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THEIR ALBUM WITH MUSIC AND POETRY THAT EXPLORE HISTORY AND TRANSFORMATION.
October 11, 2019
JOIN VIOLIN/VIOLA DUO ANDPLAY FOR AN EVENING OF MUSIC, DRINKS, AND TREATS TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF ITS DEBUT CD, PLAYLIST.
October 4, 2019
Andy Stack has been even more secret-saucy… the structures he helped build under the visionary pop-classical song cycle Spiritual America.
One of the most astonishing records of 2019 has slipped under many radars, likely because it’s hard to describe, categorize, and explain.
A WALK-ABOUT CONCERT AND LISTENING PARTY IN THE STYLE OF A ROVING ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC MINI-FESTIVAL FEATURING PERFORMANCES AND HARD-WIRED INSTALLATIONS HAND-CRAFTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE "PROFOUNDLY HIGH-FIDELITY" (NEW YORK TIMES) CUSTOM-BUILT SOUND SYSTEM AT PUBLIC RECORDS
June 25, 2019
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