eighth blackbird

About the artist

Hailed as “Friendly, unpretentious, idealistic and highly skilled” by the New Yorker, eighth blackbird is widely lauded for its unusual performing style – often playing from memory with virtuosic and theatrical flair – and its efforts to make new music accessible to wide audiences. The ensemble’s 2005-06 10th anniversary season includes tours of California– taking in Los Angeles’s Disney Hall and stops in La Jolla, Stanford and Davis;

Top songs

  1. Omie Wise
  2. Omie Wise - Live
  3. Doublespeak
  4. Music in Similar Motion
  5. Double Sextet: I. Fast
  6. Double Sextet: III. Fast
  7. Murder Ballades: Omie Wise
  8. Still Life With Avalanche
  9. Zaka
  10. Les Moutons de Panurge
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  1. Double Sextet: II. Slow
  2. To Love
  3. Murder Ballades: Tears For Sister Polly
  4. This Is My Line
  5. Petroushskates
  6. Murder Ballades: Dark Holler
  7. Murder Ballades: Young Emily
  8. Murder Ballades: Wave The Sea
  9. Coming Together
  10. Checkered Shade
  11. Damaged Goods: Damaged Goods: III. About Time
  12. Murder Ballades: I. Omie Wise
  13. Murder Ballades: Pretty Polly
  14. … A Mesure
  15. Pocket Symphony - A
  16. Meanwhile: I. Procession
  17. Murder Ballades: Brushy Fork
  18. Two Pages
  19. Variations on Sea-Time: Sea Theme
  20. Murder Ballades: II. Young Emily
  21. Evanescence (Fitzell)
  22. Divinum Mysterium: Prelude
  23. Meanwhile: II. Fanfares
  24. Higdon: Zaka
  25. Violence
  26. Meanwhile: III. Narration
  27. Pocket Symphony - C
  28. Mine, Mime, Meme
  29. Meanwhile: IV. Spikefiddlers
  30. strange imaginary remix
  31. Pocket Symphony - B
  32. Variations
  33. Fitzell: Violence
  34. Friction Systems
  35. Pocket Symphony - D
  36. Meanwhile: V. Cradle-songs
  37. South Catalina
  38. On A Wire
  39. Meanwhile: VI. Celebration
  40. Murder Ballades: VII. Tears for Sister Polly
  41. Conduit: II. Pulse
  42. Zaka (Higdon)
  43. Catch, Op. 4
  44. Pocket Symphony - E
  45. Pocket Symphony: I. A
  46. Divinum Mysterium: I. Beginnings
  47. These Broken Wings, Pt. 1
  48. By-By Huey
  49. Violence (Fitzell)
  50. Pocket Symphony - F
  51. Strange Imaginary Remix (DeSantis)
  52. Conduit: I. Touch
  53. Indigenous Instruments: II (Mackey)
  54. Divinum Mysterium: III. Light
  55. Murder Ballades: III. Dark Holler
  56. Murder Ballades: IV. Wave the Sea
  57. Murder Ballades - Omie Wise
  58. Murder Ballades: V. Brushy Fork
  59. Cast
  60. Pocket Symphony: II. B
  61. evanescence
  62. Indigenous Instruments: I (Mackey)
  63. Divinum Mysterium: IV. Rest
  64. Murder Ballades: VI. Pretty Polly
  65. Indigenous Instruments: III (Mackey)
  66. Mackey: Indigenous Instruments (1989) I
  67. Conduit: III. Send
  68. Divinum Mysterium: II. The Spirit of God Moved upon the Face of the Waters
  69. crossfade
  70. The Light of the Dark
  71. Mackey: Indigenous Instruments (1989) II
  72. Thirteen Ways: I. Leaden, Bleak
  73. Pocket Symphony: III. C
  74. Pocket Symphony: IV. D
  75. Pocket Symphony: V. E
  76. Mackey: Indigenous Instruments (1989) III
  77. Divinum Mysterium: V. Rejoicing
  78. Thirteen Ways: III. Nimble, Capricious
  79. DeSantis: Strange Imaginery Remix (2006)
  80. Thirteen Ways: IX. Spacious, Detached
  81. Pocket Symphony: VI. F
  82. Damaged Goods: Damaged Goods: IV. Eleventh Hour
  83. like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment
  84. Coming Together (arr. M. Albert): Coming Together
  85. Indigenous Instruments: I. —
  86. Thirteen Ways: VIII. Steady, Rhythmic
  87. Arioso/Doubles
  88. Gordon: Friction Systems (2002 rev. 2005)
  89. Indigenous Instruments: II. —
  90. Singing in the Dead of Night

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