The NYFA Collection, Volume Two

The follow-up to 2010’s critically acclaimed NYFA Collection, The NYFA Collection: Volume Two collects works by the 2013 Music and Sound Fellows and presents a staggeringly broad swath of sonic territory: Fellini-esque circus music, a meditation on the exile of immigration status, guitar stabs and accordion solos, abstract jazz and new music piano, pop references, odes to molars and a bad storm, are just some of the paths explored by this diverse group of artists.

Over the last 30 years, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has awarded over $27 million in unrestricted cash grants to over 4,400 artists, giving them the time to create, to be inspired and to inspire. The NYFA Collection: Volume Two continues the archiving and dissemination of the New York music collection, which began with The NYFA Collection: 25 Years of New York New Music (innova 233)—a collection DownBeat called a, “stunning document of historic culture.” Volume Two celebrates the 30th anniversary of NYFA’s Artist’s Fellowship Program by releasing ten tracks created/composed by the most recent class of Music and Sound Fellows. The recording has been curated by Cristian Amigo (composer-in-residence, INTAR Theater) and innova’s Philip Blackburn from work submitted by the composers themselves.

The through line in a collection as diverse as this is not found in tone or texture, but in its adventurous nature, in the unfettered possibilities of creative minds at work. Dive straight in, and enjoy.