Guitarist Daniel Lippel’s newest release, Adjacence, is a compilation of several chamber works recorded with various ensembles and collaborators (International Contemporary Ensemble, counter)induction, Flexible Music, Bodies Electric, and various freelance colleagues) that integrate varied aesthetics into one programmatic arc. The program highlights music across the stylistic spectrum, incorporating microtonality, improvisation, timbral experimentation, and carefully managed ensemble textures to create a broad snapshot of chamber repertoire with guitar by many of the community’s prominent composers. All but two of the works (Davidovsky and León) are heard in their premiere recordings and all but two others (Speach and Ko) were written for the ensembles heard on this recording.

Track List

1. Dan Lippel: Utopian Prelude
2. Mario Davidovsky: Cantione Sine Textu
3. Ken Ueno: Ghost Flowers
4. Peter Gilbert: Neñia (Canción Fúnebre)
5. Nico Muhly: Wedge
6. Tonia Ko: Moments: I. Momentum
7. Tonia Ko: Moments: II. Légèreté (on two cadences by Couperin)
8. Tonia Ko: Moments: III. Interlude
9. Tonia Ko: Moments: IV. Crossing Paths
10. Tonia Ko: Moments: V. Memento
11. Peter Adriaansz: Serenades II to IV: I. Serenade II
12. Peter Adriaansz: Serenades II to IV: II. Serenade III
13. Peter Adriaansz: Serenades II to IV: III. Serenade IV
14. Tyshawn Sorey: Ode to Gust Burns
15. Carl Schimmel: The Alphabet Turn'd Posture Master, or The Comical Hotch-Potch
16. Sidney Marquez Boquiren: Five Prayers of Hope: I. Beacon
17. Sidney Marquez Boquiren: Five Prayers of Hope: II. Bridges
18. Sidney Marquez Boquiren: Five Prayers of Hope: III. Silence Breakers
19. Sidney Marquez Boquiren: Five Prayers of Hope: IV. Sanctuary
20. Sidney Marquez Boquiren: Five Prayers of Hope: V. Home
21. Tania León: Ajiaco
22. Bernadette Speach: Échange
23. Charles Wuorinen: Electric Quartet
24. Adriaansz/Lippel: Dystopian Reprise