August 20, 2019
by Matthew Strauss

Blood Orange Announces New Classical Music Album Fields

Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion perform Devonté Hynes’ classical compositions

Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) is releasing his first album of classical music compositions. The collection is called Fields and it’s performed by the Chicago-based ensemble Third Coast Percussion. It’s out October 11 via Cedille. Check out the tracklist and album cover below.

Fields consists of a suite called “For All Its Fury” (the first 11 tracks of the album), followed by compositions titled “Perfectly Voiceless” and “There Was Nothing.” Hynes composed all the music in a Digital Audio Workstation and then sent the recordings and sheet music to the members of Third Coast Percussion who arranged and orchestrated them for their own instruments.

“This was the first time I’ve written music that I’ve never played, and I love that,” Dev Hynes said in a press release. “It’s something I’ve always been striving to get to. Seeing what Third Coast Percussion had done with these pieces was magical.”

Earlier this year, Hynes released the Blood Orange mixtape Angel’s Pulse.

Fields:

01 Reach
02 Blur
03 Coil
04 Wane
05 Curl
06 Hush
07 Gather
08 Tremble
09 Cradle
10 Press
11 Fields
12 Perfectly Voiceless
13 There Was Nothing

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