Music preview, video premiere by Darian Donovan Thomas and q&a hosted by Living Music's Nadia Sirota
Composer Gabriella Smith, whose music has been described as “high-voltage and wildly imaginative” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and “the coolest, most exciting, most inventive new voice I’ve heard in ages” (Musical America) comes together with Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient cellist Gabriel Cabezas on Lost Coast, a forthcoming album that addresses both the natural beauty of the planet and humanity’s hand at destroying it. Recorded in Iceland’s famed Greenhouse Studios during the extremities of the country’s far-northern daylight cycle, Lost Coast sees Cabezas’s virtuosic cello playing layered acoustically with Smith’s arresting vocals to create an addictive and unexpected palette, deployed with Smith’s trademark compositional ingenuity.
The album will be released this spring on Bedroom Community. Peabody Award-winning producer Nadia Sirota (producer of Lost Coast) hosts a listening session and q & a with the artists, along with a video premiere of Bard of a Wasteland by Darian Donovan Thomas for The Great Northern.