{"id":23078,"date":"2025-07-30T19:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23078"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:37:27","slug":"gideon-broshy-set-to-release-debut-album-nest-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23078","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Broshy set to release debut album, Nest<\/em>, in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Composer, pianist, and producer Gideon Broshy<\/a> has announced his debut album Nest<\/em>, arriving on September 26th through New Amsterdam Records<\/a>. The record features TIGUE\u2019s Matt Evans (drums), the Silkroad Ensemble’s Mantawoman (dulcimer) and Hub New Music’s Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet),\u00a0 with production from Grammy-winner William Brittelle. Broshy describes Nest<\/em> as shaped by an erratic \u201cangularity\u201d in everyday life, and by the tangled social structures that shape how we move through it. \u201cIf there is a phenomenological impulse in Nest,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Made over the course of three years, Nest<\/em> 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. \u201cIn Nest, oblique musical objects and strands collide, intertwine, and aggregate to form heterogeneous textures and fields, swarms and scenes\u201d he says, adding:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI treat composition as a form of assembly, here with shards and flecks, in bursts and smears, thrown together into emergent forms.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s feeling out curves and bends and following them into their entanglements and immersions, the indeterminate energetics that compose kaleidoscopic worlds and selves.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The album moves between sharp, intricate gestures and looser, more atmospheric textures. Broshy describes it as \u201can ecology of gestures and objects, routes and relations,\u201d adding that \u201clife feels angular, when the flow of experience meets the disorder of the social world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n