Theo Bleckmann - Love and Anger (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

One voice has been recognized as an essential element in enhancing this generation’s endeavors in experimentation, originality, and tasteful interpretation. The exquisite vocal gifts of Theo Bleckmann have enlivened the works of many composers and improvisers over the years. This has unfortunately often led to his own projects becoming a rarity. Bleckmann’s new recording, Love and Anger, presents the full scope of the vocalist’s wide ranging musical talents with collaborators new and old on material imbued with heart.

One of Bleckmann’s more recent collaborators, Ulysses Owens, Jr., had loved Bleckmann’s Hello Earth, a recording highlighting the music of Kate Bush. Bleckmann and Owens’ time on the road allowed for a friendship to blossom, leading Owens to express his intention to produce a recording for Bleckmann in 2024.

The duo’s efforts were fluid and fast, as they chose material that they felt would highlight Bleckmann’s unique abilities and, also, was connected to his unique aesthetic. They really wanted to highlight Bleckmann’s innate ability to take another composer’s work and excavate something out of it that wasn’t already there. His pure and daring voice has inspired compositions by Ben Monder, John Hollenbeck, Phil Kline, Ikue Mori, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Julia Wolfe and David Lang, whose chamber opera “Note to a Friend” (commissioned by Japan Society and directed by Yoshi Oida) was composed specifically for Bleckmann’s unique sound and sensibility.

TRACKLIST

1 Love and Anger
2 Bertie
3 Solo
4 You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
5 The Crossing
6 Stars
7 I Feel Real
8 Mighty Real
9 Dido's Lament
10 Teardrop
11 Precious Lord Choir
12 Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
13 Precious Lord



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