Singer0songwriter Ben Folds has announced the release of his first album on New West records, titled So There, set for a September 11 release. The album features eight new chamber-pop songs recorded and produced in collaboration with yMusic, a NYC-based sextet, and includes a recording of Folds’ 21-minute “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra,” performed with the Nashville Symphony.
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“I don’t recall ever being quite so excited about an album I’m making,” says Folds. “I’ll let you decide if that’s a good thing or not. It’s just that we don’t often get to make a record that we’ve never heard before. The arrangements you will hear on this record are straight up rock – not ornamentation. The odd instrumentation – piano, cello, viola, violin, flute/piccolo/alto flute, trumpet/French horn, and clarinet/bass clarinet, with no bass and more often than not, no drums – is yielding something that I can’t wait to release. It’s a pop record, if that’s what you call what I write.”
Stream Folds’ latest single, “Capable of Anything,” here.
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