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Justin Wright // Music for Staying Warm LP

Justin Wright // Music for Staying Warm LP

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2019 release album by cellist Justin Wright of Montreal, Canada. As the title "Music for Warming" indicates, 9 neo-classical songs are included, where the soft sunlight melts the snow.


Music For Staying Warm began when I was tasked with writing and performing a set of string works for a relaxation room at a chaotic all-night event in the heart of Montreal winter. It was a cold winter, and for me, a cold year, and when a cat curled up at my feet in the middle of performing these works, I felt like I was doing something right. After gradually developing these ideas many months after the first performances, I recorded most of this album during a residency at the Banff center for the Arts, coinciding with a surprise visit from my long-time collaborator Kate Maloney.


What all of these tracks have in common, aside from being limited to string instruments, is an intention for you to relinquish your sense of anticipation. Conceptually, they were heavily inspired by particular styles of Ethiopian music such as the tizita, which often lacks any resolving cadences to leave you with it's trademark evocation of longing without resolution.

So I guess there is a certain amount of irony in the name Music for Staying Warm. Drone III definitely isn't warm. But refuge is just as often acceptance of where you are as it is an escape, and I hope that, whatever I was thinking when I wrote this music, you are able to contextualise it in your own life and find your own meaning. "
-Justin Wright

Artist: Justin Wright

Label: First Terrace Records

2019 release album by cellist Justin Wright of Montreal, Canada. As the title "Music for Warming" indicates, 9 neo-classical songs are included, where the soft sunlight melts the snow.


Music For Staying Warm began when I was tasked with writing and performing a set of string works for a relaxation room at a chaotic all-night event in the heart of Montreal winter. It was a cold winter, and for me, a cold year, and when a cat curled up at my feet in the middle of performing these works, I felt like I was doing something right. After gradually developing these ideas many months after the first performances, I recorded most of this album during a residency at the Banff center for the Arts, coinciding with a surprise visit from my long-time collaborator Kate Maloney.


What all of these tracks have in common, aside from being limited to string instruments, is an intention for you to relinquish your sense of anticipation. Conceptually, they were heavily inspired by particular styles of Ethiopian music such as the tizita, which often lacks any resolving cadences to leave you with it's trademark evocation of longing without resolution.

So I guess there is a certain amount of irony in the name Music for Staying Warm. Drone III definitely isn't warm. But refuge is just as often acceptance of where you are as it is an escape, and I hope that, whatever I was thinking when I wrote this music, you are able to contextualise it in your own life and find your own meaning. "
-Justin Wright

Artist: Justin Wright

Label: First Terrace Records