Outsider Song – featured on Adam Tendler’s “Inheritances”
Recorded March 2 & 3, 2024, at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY
Produced by Judith Sherman
Engineered by Charles Mueller
Engineering and editing assistant: Jeanne Velonis
Additional processing by Charles Mueller (Wollschleger and Cerrone)
Piano technician: Michael Jurewicz
Mastered by Jeanne Velonis and Judith Sherman
…Call it a small masterpiece...
Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times on Outsider Song.
After his father’s unexpected death, Tendler used his complete inheritance, an envelope full of cash received in a parking lot, to commission a broad spectrum of today’s most sought after composers—also his friends—to compose piano works exploring the theme of ‘inheritance’ itself. Woven into a single intimate program of “little masterpieces” (New York Times), each reflecting a “melancholy beauty beyond conventions” (Pioneer Press), this “wildly unexpected” (Star Tribune) program tells a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and has moved audiences internationally. Garnering national media attention since its premiere, Inheritances has become a powerful meditation on confronting our past, and a catalyst for countless listeners to move forward.
Produced by Grammy-winning engineer Judith Sherman, this much-anticipated album features new works by an all-star lineup including Laurie Anderson, Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres, and John Glover.