Lonely Motel: Music from Slide

Lonely Motel is the world premiere recording of songs from the startlingly innovative music and theater work Slide, written for new-music sextet eighth blackbird, an ensemble of wind, string, piano, and percussion virtuosos. The group, with composer-electric guitarist Steven Mackey and singer, actor, and librettist Rinde Eckert, premiered the concert-length work at the 2009 Ojai Music Festival in Southern California, a mecca for cutting-edge music enthusiasts. The same forces perform on the new CD, which takes its title from the final song in the cycle.

Eckert plays the central character, Renard, a fictional research psychologist whose fiancee has abandoned him. The heartbroken Renard reminisces about an experiment he conducted using projections of photographic slides to explore the fallibility of human perception.

Performers

Rinde Eckert, vocals
Steve Mackey, guitar
Tim Munro, flutes
Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets
Matt Albert, violin & viola
Nick Photinos, cello
Matthew Duvall, percussion
Lisa Kaplan, piano

Album Details

Total Time: 57:00
Producer: David Frost
Recording Engineers: Tom Lazarus and Bill Maylone
Editing Engineer: Steven Mackey and Brian Losch
Mixing Engineer: Tom Lazarus
Mastering Engineer: Joe Lambert
Recorded: March 18-21, 2010 at Chicago Recording Company (Jon Zacks and Mat Lejeune, engineers)
Front Cover Design & Photography: Rinde Eckert
Inside Booklet & Inlay Card: Nancy Bieschke
Publisher: © 2009 Boosey & Hawkes
© 2011 Cedille Records/Cedille Chicago