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The National’s Bryce Dessner Announces New Album, “Music for Wood and Strings”

Performed by Sō Percussion

Apr 10, 2015 Bryce Dessner By Mike Hilleary Bookmark and Share


The National‘s Bryce Dessner has announced the release of a brand new compositional album titled Music for Wood and Strings. The follow-up to Dessner’s 2013 debut Aheym, which saw the musical artist team up with Grammy Award-winning ensemble The Kronos Quartet, the new full-length is performed by the Brooklyn-based quartet Sō Percussion. Throughout the album the ensemble utilize chordsticks, an original instrument co-designed in collaboration with Dessner that is, according to a press release, “a cross between a hammer dulcimer and an electric guitar.”

Music for Wood and Strings is due out May 19 on Brassland. Scroll down to watch a video of a studio performance of Dessner’s new work captured last year to get a sense of the album’s unique sound.

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