Back in July, composer and pianist Gideon Broshy announced his highly anticipated debut album Nest, slated for release on September 26th through New Amsterdam Records. Along with the announcement, Broshy shared the playful and intricate lead single ‘Crumple‘, offering an exciting first look at the album’s rich electroacoustic sound. Now, ahead of the full album drop, Broshy has released a second single called ‘String’. The new track continues Broshy’s exploration of dynamic textures, unfolding with a delicate interplay between celeste, harpsichord, and synths, which, as the press release describes, “curl around each other like spindle fibers, gathering thickness and texture, before the clarinet breaks through, triggering a shimmering cascade of electroacoustic flourishes, clusters, and points.”

As we had mentioned, Nest features a remarkable cast of collaborators, including Matt Evans (drums), Mantawoman (dulcimer), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), and Grammy-winning producer William Brittelle.

Listen to ‘String’ below and be sure to check out the full album when it arrives later this month.

Composer, pianist, and producer Gideon Broshy has announced his debut album Nest, arriving on September 26th through New Amsterdam Records. The record features TIGUE’s Matt Evans (drums), the Silkroad Ensemble’s Mantawoman (dulcimer) and Hub New Music’s Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet),  with production from Grammy-winner William Brittelle. Broshy describes Nest as shaped by an erratic “angularity” in everyday life, and by the tangled social structures that shape how we move through it. “If there is a phenomenological impulse in Nest,” he says, “it’s to trace the immanent shapes and surfaces of the everyday. To sketch or map their routes and connections, their accumulations and multiplicities. A sharp breath, an empty pause, a dragging undertow, a disjuncture in time or pitch or space. To play with shapes, to get at the shape of things.”

Made over the course of three years, Nest brings together harpsichords, dulcimers, celestas, synthesizers, pianos, and software instruments. Broshy built the music by improvising with both acoustic and electronic setups, then breaking the material apart and rebuilding it. “In Nest, oblique musical objects and strands collide, intertwine, and aggregate to form heterogeneous textures and fields, swarms and scenes” he says, adding:

“I treat composition as a form of assembly, here with shards and flecks, in bursts and smears, thrown together into emergent forms.”  It’s feeling out curves and bends and following them into their entanglements and immersions, the indeterminate energetics that compose kaleidoscopic worlds and selves.”

The album moves between sharp, intricate gestures and looser, more atmospheric textures. Broshy describes it as “an ecology of gestures and objects, routes and relations,” adding that “life feels angular, when the flow of experience meets the disorder of the social world.”

Ahead of the album’s release, Broshy has shared the exhilarating and playful lead single, ‘Crumple’. One of five short electronic pieces on the album, ‘Crumple’ moves through fluctuating textures and animated MIDI simulations.