Daniel Lippel - Adjacence (2024)

Guitarist Daniel Lippel’s newest release, Adjacence, is a compilation of several chamber works recorded with various ensembles and collaborators (International Contemporary Ensemble, counter)induction, Flexible Music, Bodies Electric, and various freelance colleagues) that integrate varied aesthetics into one programmatic arc. The program highlights music across the stylistic spectrum, incorporating microtonality, improvisation, timbral experimentation, and carefully managed ensemble textures to create a broad snapshot of chamber repertoire with guitar by many of the community’s prominent composers. All but two of the works (Davidovsky and León) are heard in their premiere recordings and all but two others (Speach and Ko) were written for the ensembles heard on this recording.