Sarah Manning's Harmonious Creature at Ibeam Brooklyn

According to JazzTimes critic Carlo Wolff, “There’s something animistic about Manning’s work…Her music – original and brave – shows Manning knows where the wild things are. That’s because she’s one herself.” At I-Beam, she’ll highlight the music on her brand new release Harmonious Creature on Posi-Tone Records (release date January 21st). Much of the work on Harmonious Creature was written in the company of owl, coyote, bear, porcupine and salamander while Manning was an October 2012 Fellow in Composition at the MacDowell Colony. Manning is the lone red fox atop a pile of shale on the outskirts of the urban landscape, her singular musical voice illustrating the contradiction of an artist drawn to the woods even as she feels the gaze of a thousand bright city lamps...

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According to JazzTimes critic Carlo Wolff, “There’s something animistic about Manning’s work…Her music – original and brave – shows Manning knows where the wild things are. That’s because she’s one herself.” At I-Beam, she’ll highlight the music on her brand new release Harmonious Creature on Posi-Tone Records (release date January 21st). Much of the work on Harmonious Creature was written in the company of owl, coyote, bear, porcupine and salamander while Manning was an October 2012 Fellow in Composition at the MacDowell Colony. Manning is the lone red fox atop a pile of shale on the outskirts of the urban landscape, her singular musical voice illustrating the contradiction of an artist drawn to the woods even as she feels the gaze of a thousand bright city lamps. With compositions that unite the small town and the metropolis, the lofty ceilings of I-Beam will open to the night sky. At the right moment, in the drone of Goldberger’s guitar and the shouts of alto and viola over the formless form spun from Miller’s drums and Hart’s bass, you might just see the twitch of a white-tipped tail.

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