This World is Too _____ For You released in March has been hailed by NPR as “breathtaking” “mind-blowing” and “visionary”. The ten song album, arranged for chamber ensemble by composer Michi Wiancko, was commissioned by Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series and Metropolis Ensemble who performs on the album along with drummer / composer Shayna Dunkelman (Du Yun, Xiu Xiu).
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This World Is Too _____ For You written & produced by Emily Wells
Chamber Ensemble arrangements created by Michi Wiancko
in collaboration with Emily Wells and commissioned by
Metropolis Ensemble & Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series.
Andrew Cyr: Music Director
Chamber Ensemble arrangements performed by Metropolis Ensemble:
Violin: Katie Hyun and Grace Park (leader), Viola: Emily Brandenburg,
Cello: Michael Katz, Double Bass: Evan Runyon
French Horn: Laura Weiner, Assistant Musician: Daniel Castellanos
Chamber Recordings at Electric Garden Studio, Brooklyn, NY - Sept 7, 2018
Engineered by Christopher Botta with assistance from Jaclyn Sanchez
Additional instrumentation recorded by Emily
at her studio in Harlem, NY - June 2017 - Oct. 2018
Emily on synths, vocoders, drum programming, electric guitar, vocals + live drums: Hymn For the New World & Eulogy For the Lucky, violin: I Need A Placebo
Live Drums/Percussion by Shayna Dunkleman - recorded Sept 28, Oct 1-2, 2018
Michi Wiancko plays violin on Your Apocalypse was Fab
Mixed at Fer Sound by Christopher Botta and Emily Wells - Oct. - Nov. 2018
Additional mixing, editing, advice & insight from Jacob Plasse - Sept. 2017 - Nov. 2018
Assistance w/ vocal comping + critical listening by Samantha Nye - June 2017 - Dec. 2018
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering - Dec. 2018
Album Cover: Installation view of Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains, 2016,
Las Vegas, Nevada. Coproduced by Art Production Fund & The Nevada Museum of Art. Photograph by Jonathon Lo
lyrics
I didn’t want to go away so soon. I wasn’t done with you.
I didn’t want to give it up like this. I’m not prepared to miss.
I didn’t want it bad enough.
So go on, get it going on in a new world.
Hallelujah, in a new world.
Can’t we just carry on? Can’t we just carry a little longer?
Can’t we just get it!?
I didn’t want to look away just yet. I want my provenance.
I didn’t want to tell the truth, you know that’s when it’s time to go.
I didn’t want it bad enough.
There is no going on with it. Everything you know you learn to quit.
There is no going on with it. Everything you love you learn to quit.
There is no going on with it. Everything we love we learn to quit.
So go on, go on, get it going on in a new world.
Hallelujah, in a new world.
“Quietly transfixing” composer / producer Emily Wells is known for her varied use of classical and modern instrumentation,
“a master of blending the worlds of classical and electronics” (NPR) and “dramatic, meticulous and gothic songs” (New York Times)....more
supported by 13 fans who also own “Hymn For the New World”
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
A genre-defying work of voice, field recordings, pianos, stringed instruments and organized noise from the founder of Son Lux. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 27, 2017
Trevor Powers, formerly known as Youth Lagoon, offers "music for our digital coma" across a melancholic surprise LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 29, 2020
supported by 13 fans who also own “Hymn For the New World”
I think it's difficult to write songs about something other than romantic love, and still be able to communicate the intensity with which those feelings can hit a person. Some of the entries on this album are fantastic examples of this niche. dani_bloop