Artist: Variant 6
Album: Gregory W. Brown: Fall and Decline
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 33:37
Total Tracks: 5
Total Size: 520 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Variant 6 – I. But After Six Years (03:58)
1-2. Variant 6 – II. The Wine of Life (02:18)
1-3. Variant 6 – III. After the President’s Speech You Dream of Corpses (06:24)
1-4. Variant 6 – IV. As Orchards Bloom Again (01:54)
1-5. Variant 6 – V. Sixty Phantoms of Kings (19:01)

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With Gregory Brown’s FALL AND DECLINE on Navona Records, the composer chronicles the heights to which humanity can soar-but also the depths to which it may come crashing down. Scored for the solo voices of virtuosic vocal sextet Variant 6 and electronics, the sounds range from typical choral textures (though peppered with microtones) to angular and aggressive electronic soundscapes.The lyrics may span two-and-a-half millennia, but their spirit and subjects are abiding: humankind’s struggle against the limitations of time, conflict, inevitable decay. Persian rulers of the fifth century BCE, Baroque historians, poets of the Victorian age, contemporary wordsmiths, they are all caught in a grander, timeless labor-as is every one of us. FALL AND DECLINE is a stern reminder of Humanity’s ephemerality, but even more, it’s a harbinger of hope, a celebration of creative endeavors despite perpetual adversity.