**On-sale Friday, July 19th at 12PM (EST)**
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San Fermin – SOLD OUT
A pastiche of post-rock, chamber-pop and contemporary classical composition, San Fermin is the work of Brooklyn composer and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone. His self-titled debut album is strongly influenced by his unique background in classical music, which includes a job assisting composer/arranger Nico Muhly.
After finishing his musical studies at Yale, Ludwig-Leone wrote the album in six weeks while holed up in a studio on the mountainous border between Alberta and British Columbia. He focused on lifeʼs top-shelf issues – youth, nostalgia, anxiety, unrequited love – and tied these vast themes to different characters through vocal contributions from longtime friend Allen Tate, as well as Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius.
The first track released from the album, “Sonsick,” tackles many of these larger themes headon. ”It’s like a panic attack disguised as a birthday party,” Ludwig-Leone says. ”I realized that the most intense moments are the ones in which conflicting emotional worlds exist inside you, equally, at once.”
San Fermin is not an album of singles but rather a sweeping, full-bodied listen with multiple distinct peaks and ambitious thematic connections. Ludwig-Leone composed all of the album’s arrangements and lyrics in full prior to collaborating and recording, noting that “writing for a large group of unknown musicians infused the writing process with a kind of operatic scope.
Since then, the band has coalesced into a core of eight members in addition to Ludwig-Leone: Allen Tate and Rae Cassidy, lead vocals; Eliza Bagg and Rebekah Durham, vocals/violin; John Brandon, trumpet; Stephen Chen, saxophone; Tyler McDiarmid, guitar; and Mike Hanf, drums. San Fermin will be available on CD, vinyl and digital outlets via Downtown Records this fall. The name is pronounced [SAN fur-MEEN]
Alexandra Stewart
Brooklyn émigré Alexandra Stewart is due to release her lush debut, Wàbà, in the fall. This idyllic Canadian village, named after the Algonquin word for “white,” is the backdrop for this tumultuous memoir.
Wàbà was recorded on a small country home and farm in Frenchtown, New Jersey by Alexander Overington, mixed by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Timber Timbre) in Montreal, and finally mastered by Joe Lambert (Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Lia Ices) in Brooklyn, where it currently resides.
“Stewart is that kind of dangerous artist who threatens to upend expectations of what our local songwriters can do.” – The Deli Mag