Sunrise, by Jacob Cooper and Steven Bradshaw

Sunrise

by Jacob Cooper and Steven Bradshaw

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padredre Very cool and unique composition that feels like a sleep cycle.

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Created during the 2020–21 pandemic, "Sunrise" derives its title and lyrics and more from “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise,” a popular tune written during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic and subsequently recorded by many noted performers (including Fritz Kreisler, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Les Paul and Mary Ford, and Willie Nelson). “As we watched the world unravel around us, that song really resonated,” Bradshaw notes, and the two used it as inspiration for Sunrise, with melodic and harmonic material from the song itself appearing in phantom traces and its lyrics reconfigured.

Sunrise‘s starting point was a soundscape that Cooper sent to Bradshaw. Bradshaw then layered it with melodies, motifs, vocal scrapes, hisses, whispers, and screams before sending it back to Cooper for sonic manipulation and the adding of new material. Their compositional-improvisational back and forth continued for a year, resulting in Sunrise’s inviting yet intense multilayered sonic dialogue.

Jacob Cooper has been lauded as “richly talented” (The New York Times), “conceptually intrepid” (Pitchfork), and a “maverick electronic song composer” (The New Yorker). His music has been commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Eighth Blackbird, and the Calder Quartet and released by Nonesuch, New Amsterdam, and other labels. His string orchestra work Stabat Mater Dolorosa was an NPR Top Ten album for January 2020.

A founding member of the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble The Crossing, Steven Bradshaw has appeared as a soloist with Bang on a Can, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, and other groups and has recorded and toured with Roomful of Teeth. He premiered Ted Hearne’s Place at the BAM Next Wave Festival, and in 2022 he will reprise his role in Place with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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released October 15, 2021

Music by Jacob Cooper with Steven Bradshaw

Performed by Steven Bradshaw, voice
Produced by Jacob Cooper

Additional performers:
Dynasty Battles, piano; Clara Kim, violin; Timothy Munro, flute/piccolo

Sunrise was initiated and made possible by Anthony B. Creamer III

Jacob thanks Claudia De Palma, Sleeping Giant, Martha and Neal Cooper, Tony Creamer, Ernest Seitz and Gene Lockhart, and Settlement Music School for the use of its piano.

Steven thanks Peggy and Dave Bradshaw, Nyahzul, Rob Bradshaw, Jill Bradshaw, Donald Nally, Ted Hearne, Tom and Colin Frangicetto, Tony Creamer, Variant 6, Jennifer Boorum, and Elliott Zohn Harry.

Mixed by Jacob Cooper, with additional mixing by Devin Greenwood
Executive producer, Jim Fox
Mastered by Scott Fraser, Architecture, Los Angeles

Design by Jim Fox; photos by Andy Futreal

Composition © 2021 Dig You Might Publishing (ASCAP)
CD p & © 2021 Cold Blue Music, Venice, CA
www.coldbluemusic.com

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Jacob Cooper and Steven Bradshaw Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jacob Cooper has been lauded as a "maverick electronic song composer" (The New Yorker) whose music is "conceptually intrepid" (Pitchfork). Critics have described the voice of Steven Bradshaw, a founding member of the Grammy-winning ensemble The Crossing, as "luminous" and "extraordinary." ... more

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