EXTENDED EDITION OF COMPOSER DANIELLE EVA SCHWOB’S OUT OF THE TUNNEL OUT NOW

IN-PERSON PERFORMANCE EVENT FEATURING PUBLIQUARTET, ASHLEY JACKSON AND MORE AT FOTOGRAFISKA IN NEW YORK CITY TONIGHT

The extended deluxe edition of acclaimed composer, performer and producer Danielle Eva Schwob’s debut full-length classical album Out of the Tunnel is out today via Innova Recordings—listen here.

To celebrate the release, Schwob will host a special in-person event tonight at Manhattan’s Fotografiska museum (281 Park Avenue South) featuring Grammy-nominated ensemble PUBLIQuartet, renowned harpist Ashley Jackson, cellist Laura Metcalf and other special guests performing music from Schowb’s classical album Out of the Tunnel alongside visuals directed by multidisciplinary artist James Mountford (BANKS, Ciara, Chance the Rapper). The event begins at 7:30pm, and COVID-19 protocols will be in place with proof of vaccination and masks required. Tickets include same day admission to the museum, where the Andy Warhol exhibit is currently being shown. For more information and tickets, click here.

The three new works featured on the deluxe edition of Out of the Tunnel round out Schwob’s overall vision for the project in distinct ways. The first added track, “Reflections on David Hockney,” completes the composer’s trilogy of “Reflections On” pieces that reference British painters, while “Traveling North (Flute and Harp Version)” highlights Schwob’s ongoing desire to adapt her compositions to different instrumentations. The last added track, “Shiver,” is an entirely new composition, offering an alternate ending to the full project.

Out of the Tunnel pulls from Schwob’s various influences as a classically trained musician, from the Bach she absorbed as a child through her father, a classical guitarist, to minimalist icon Steve Reich and the cinematic sounds of Philip Glass and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Further inspired by nature and other forms of art, such as painting, the chamber music on the album maintains a striking connection between its separate parts, which is evident not only in the “Reflections On” trilogy but also in the four-movement quartet commissioned by New Music USA for PUBLIQuartet that begins the album—each movement of which boasts a corresponding video directed by James Mountford. Additionally, many of the album’s performers are close colleagues of Schwob with whom she has worked on stage and in the studio for years, including PUBLIQuartet (who perform throughout the album), harpists Ashley Jackson and Kristi Shade, the Grammy-nominated flutist Nathalie Joachim, cellist Mike Nicolas of Brooklyn Rider, pianist Orion Weiss and others.

Originally from London but now based in New York City and Los Angeles, Schwob studied music composition at New York University and the Manhattan School of Music. Her music has been featured at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! and Philip Glass’s MATA Festival, as well as at such venues as Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette and Issue Project Room. In addition to New Music USA and the American Composers Forum, she has earned honors and commissions from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, BMI and more. She has also been a Sundance Institute Composers Lab Fellow, a Con Edison EtM Composer-in-Residence, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award Finalist, a two-time MAP Fund Finalist and an ACA Associate-Artist-in-Residence.

Schwob’s classical album comes on the heels of her critically acclaimed pop project DELANILA’s 2020 release, Overloaded, about which NPR Music remarked, “It really creates a world…a huge record,” and from which The New York Times highlighted the track “It’s Been A While Since I Went Outside” in its weekly Playlist feature. In addition to writing and singing all the songs on Overloaded, Schwob played guitar and synthesizers, added programming and helmed string arrangements alongside co-producer and three-time Grammy winner David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, Peter Gabriel), with mastering by Emily Lazar (Haim, Sia, Coldplay) and top session musicians including Adam Agati (Cory Henry, The Funk Apostles), Reuben Cainer (Animus Rexx), Jordan Brooks (Albert Hammond Jr.), Aaron Steele (Portugal. The Man), Pearse MacIntyre, Jim Orso and Nicholas Semrad.

For more information, please contact Chris Schimpf, Ethan Jacobs or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.

DANIELLE EVA SCHWOB
OUT OF THE TUNNEL (EXTENDED EDITION)
1.–4. Out of the Tunnel: I. Fast II. Slow III. Moderate IV. Fast + Coda
5. Traveling North (vibraphone and flute version)
6. The Long Way Down
7. Breathing Underwater
8. Reflections on Francis Bacon
9. Reflections on Lucian Freud
10. Reflections on David Hockney
11. Traveling North (Flute and Harp Version)
12. Shiver