NEON, by Manchester Collective

NEON

by Manchester Collective

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Toymaker59 I actually bought this for the Hannah Peel piece, but the Steve Reich is fabulous too: so fresh and bright - like music after a thunderstorm.

beanfumble Superb - as good as you'd expect from Manchester Collective, which of course is very, very good indeed; only one negative - no CD (some of us still like a physical copy that doesn't cost an arm and a leg...) Favorite track: Quanta.

Gavin Sheedy So much energy! Great from start to finish.

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1.	Manchester Collective, Hannah Peel - Neon 1: Shinjuku 03:39	buy track
2.	Manchester Collective, Hannah Peel - Neon 2: Born of Breath 03:12	buy track
3.	Manchester Collective, Hannah Peel - Neon 3: Vanishing 05:29	buy track
4.	Manchester Collective, Lyra Pramuk - Quanta 08:14	buy track
5.	Joy Boy (digital-only track) 07:04	buy track
6.	Double Sextet: 1. Fast 08:48	buy track
7.	Double Sextet: 2. Slow 06:43	buy track
8.	Double Sextet: 3. Fast 06:53	buy track

about

NEON, the fourth studio release from Manchester Collective, contains a paradox at its heart. The album is unambiguously about the night, about dark city streets, evoking glass, concrete and slow, incessant rain. However, it is also by some margin the brightest, breeziest and most optimistic record by the group. Here, the seductive nocturnal rhythms of Hannah Peel and Steve Reich sit alongside music of a different sort – unsettling, introspective works by Lyra Pramuk and Julius Eastman.

Writing about her titular work, Peel notes that “Neon itself is opulence and decadence; bustling activity and loneliness”. This gets to the heart of the matter.

Electronic sounds and field recordings run through the record. In the titular ‘Neon’, Peel uses samples from Shinjuku Station in Tokyo to evoke teeming musical scenes full of life. Her joyful music is in many ways a reflection of Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet, the work that closes the album. The Double Sextet sees six members of the Collective performing against recordings of themselves in a virtuosic race to the finish.

Along the way, producer Lyra Pramuk makes her composing debut with ‘Quanta’, music inspired by Carlo Rovelli’s quantum physics headscratcher ‘The Order of Time’. ‘Quanta’ opens with the sound of a huge grandfather clock, at first keeping regular time, and then slowly dancing to a more flexible meter, waxing and waning, stuttering, and finally, stopping. “There is no universal time,” says Pramuk. “Quanta explores the notion that each of us has an individual sense of how time traces through our lives.”

‘Joy Boy’ by Julius Eastman is similarly obsessed with time. In the preface to the work, Eastman instructs the performers to “create ticker tape music”. This is time before the digital revolution – spools of tape, indented and pierced, transmitting messages across distance.

credits

released June 23, 2023

Artist: Manchester Collective
Record Label: Bedroom Community

Rakhi Singh – Music Director
Joe Reiser – Production, Recording / Mix Engineer
Hannah Peel – Producer
Adam Szabo – Producer
Valgeir Sigurðsson – Mastering
Alphabet Studio – Album Artwork & Design, with special thanks to Graham Hector

Alex Jakeman – Flute
Oliver Pashley – Clarinet
Rakhi Singh – Violin
Hannah Roberts – Cello
Beibei Wang – Vibraphone
Katherine Tinker – Piano

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Manchester Collective Manchester, UK

Radical human experiences. Known for their experimental programming and daring collaborations, Manchester Collective bring a combination of cutting edge contemporary music and classical masterpieces to a hungry, new audience.

"THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED"
Bachtrack

"BRILLIANT"
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shows

May 5

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

London, UK

discography

NEON

Jun 2023
Shades

Mar 2022
The Centre is Everywhere

Mar 2021
Recreation

Sep 2020

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