℗ 2022 Mary Halvorson, under exclusive license to Nonesuch Records Inc.
| Released | March 15, 2022 |
| Duration | 37m 52s |
| Record Label | Nonesuch |
| Genre | Jazz |
Amaryllis
Mary Halvorson
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Night Shift
Mary Halvorson |
5:52 | |||
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1.2
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Anesthesia
Mary Halvorson |
6:41 | |||
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1.3
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Amaryllis
Mary Halvorson |
5:55 | |||
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1.4
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Side Effect
Mary Halvorson |
6:47 | |||
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1.5
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Hoodwink
Mary Halvorson |
6:47 | |||
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1.6
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892 Teeth
Mary Halvorson |
5:50 |
"Mary Halvorson’s guitar playing can be challenging and at times even confrontational, but it is never conventional. A fixture in avant-garde and improvisational music circles, the New York City–based guitarist is just as likely to pick out intricate, harmonically and melodically complex lines of stunning beauty as she is to unleash a violent spray of atonal, harshly distorted six-string noise.”
- Rolling Stone
Nonesuch Records releases twin label debut albums, Amaryllis and Belladonna, from Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson. The two suites, which Halvorson describes as “modular and interlocking,” were performed at Brooklyn’s Roulette last fall. The records, produced and mixed by John Dieterich (Deerhoof). are available digitally as two separate albums.
Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers, including Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). The Mivos string quartet joins for three of the songs, making this the largest ensemble for which Halvorson has written to date. The suite showcases Halvorson’s many musical influences from jazz, experimental, new music, and beyond.
“Amaryllis features some of my favorite musicians on the planet. I started writing the music in 2020, when the world slowed and most activities came to a halt, and all I had was my guitar, a pencil, some staff paper, and a computer. The pleasure of imagining what the music might sound like kept me sane during that time and gave me reason to push forward."
- Mary Halvorson
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Nonesuch Studio Masters
Tracks 1-6 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1-6 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.50 -0.50 to -0.50 | -14.64 -17.06 to -13.25 | -11.82 -13.70 to -11.10 | 9 8 to 10 | |
| 1 | Night Shift | -0.50 | -13.44 | -11.2 | 9 |
| 2 | Anesthesia | -0.50 | -17.06 | -13.7 | 10 |
| 3 | Amaryllis | -0.50 | -13.25 | -11.1 | 8 |
| 4 | Side Effect | -0.50 | -14.60 | -11.8 | 9 |
| 5 | Hoodwink | -0.50 | -15.02 | -11.3 | 9 |
| 6 | 892 Teeth | -0.50 | -14.46 | -11.8 | 9 |