Balance Campaign is releasing their recording of ANIMAL by Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis, their first-ever commission and studio recording!
ANIMAL traces the evolutionary development of an imaginary living organism, starting from a single pulsating de-tuned unison blip (mono-cellular) through a constantly shifting tableau from increasingly fantastical fungi and amphibious reptiles all the way to the giant stomping footsteps of an intelligent being walking upright. But just as the music starts to soar into the highest register of the ensemble, the humanoid suddenly transforms into a grotesque monstrosity in a final furious march that leads to it's own extinction.
Cue Recording Studios, Falls Church, VA
Ken Schubert, Recording Engineer
Blaine Misner, Mastering
Safiya Muthaliff, Production Manager
Album Art by Elizabeth G. Hill
Nathan Lincoln De-Cuasatis, Composer
Meghan Shanley Alger, Flutes
Emily Robinson, Clarinets
Sandy Choi, Violin
Erin Murphy Snedecor, Cello
Elizabeth G. Hill, Piano
Emory Hensley, Percussion