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Digits: they’re not just 0 and 1 anymore. For Neil Rolnick’s second outing on Innova, he has once again surrounded himself with some of the best performers of new music, and integrated their musicality with the world of digital sampling and processing.

Pianist Kathleen Supové takes her own digits, as well as those of the computer, on a wild ride in the title track. Peter Eldridge, of the a cappella jazz group New York Voices, delivers a heartfelt rendition of Making Light Of It, Rolnick’s setting of six poems by Philip Levine. The Paul Dresher Ensemble’s Electro-Acoustic Band takes a virtuoso romp through Bush era politics, in Plays Well With Others. And Rolnick himself revisits one of his signature pieces from the 1980s, A Robert Johnson Sampler. These digits don’t just count, they sing.

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Release Date
July 4, 2006
Catalog Number
#656