Accelerate Every Voice
Released: June 2020
- Kyoko Kitamura – voice
- Michael Mayo – voice, looper
- Raquel Acevedo Klein – voice
- Steven Hrycelak – vocal bass
- Kari Francis – vocal percussion
- Cory Smythe – piano, electronics
Tracks:
- Northern Cities Vowel Shift
- Accelerate Every Voice
- Marl Every Voice
- Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture 1
- Vehemently view
- Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture 2
- Knot Every Voice
- Weatherproof Song
- Piano and Ocean Waves For Deep Relaxation
Accelerate Every Voice
Released: June 12, 2020
- Kyoko Kitamura – voice
- Michael Mayo – voice, looper
- Raquel Acevedo Klein – voice
- Steven Hrycelak – vocal bass
- Kari Francis – vocal percussion
- Cory Smythe – piano, electronics
Tracks:
- Northern Cities Vowel Shift
- Accelerate Every Voice
- Marl Every Voice
- Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture 1
- Vehemently view
- Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture 2
- Knot Every Voice
- Weatherproof Song
- Piano and Ocean Waves For Deep Relaxation
Cory Smythe – The New York Times – Seth Colter Walls
July 7, 2020“Accelerate Every Voice,” a new album, is a step forward in another facet of this dazzling pianist’s career: composing. Cory Smythe’s new album blends references to hyper-complex contemporary classical styles, the jazz-meets-vocal music of Andrew Hill’s 1970 record “Lift Every …
Cory Smythe – Pan M 360 – Réjean Beaucage
July 6, 2020Pianist Cory Smythe took the stage at FIMAV in May 2019 with the Tyshawn Sorey Trio, an ensemble that gave an impressive concert in which Smythe’s very original playing literally stole the show. The recording of this disc dates from …
Cory Smythe – The New Yorker – Steve Smith
July 6, 2020In 1969, Andrew Hill, an idiosyncratic jazz master who’d gigged with Charlie Parker and studied with Paul Hindemith, paired a vocal chorus with a hard-swinging quintet to record “Lift Every Voice,” a buoyant set of upbeat incantations. Now, just over …
Cory Smythe Interview & Listening Party
Compositions by Cory Smythe, Pluripotent Publishing (BMI)
Recorded by Ryan Streber in December, 2018 at Oktaven Audio (Mt. Vernon, NY)
Vocal direction/additional production by Kari Francis
Mixed by Ryan Streber and Cory Smythe in August, 2019 at Oktaven Audio
Mastered by Scott Hull in January, 2020 at Masterdisk (Peekskill, NY)
Images by Julian Charrière, The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories I-IV, 2013 (copyright the artist © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany)
Album design and layout by Spottswood Erving and July Creek for Janky Defense
Produced by Cory Smythe and David Breskin
THANK YOU: to Kari, Kyoko, Michael, Raquel, and Steve for their brilliant, inspiring and enormously generous musicianship—and again to Kari for her direction and tutelage in all things ‘aca’; to Ryan and Scott for their incomparable sonic artistry; to David for his patience, care, and Socratic methods; to Kris Davis for her superhuman work; to Chelsea Hadley and The Shifting Foundation for their invaluable support; to Julian Charrière for the enormous privilege of associating my work with his; to July and Spottswood for the visual rhythms of their pseudonymous collaboration; and to Liz, beloved a capella fan, for all the inventive ways you wed my joys to yours. — CS