Nick Photinos: Petits Artéfacts

Petits Artéfacts is the debut solo recording from Eighth Blackbird founding cellist Nick Photinos.

The album brings together never-before-recorded works from some of the most acclaimed names in new music — David Lang, Andrew Norman, Bryce Dessner, David T. Little — but also a newer generation of groundbreaking composers like Angélica Negrón, Florent Ghys, Molly Joyce, and Pascal Le Boeuf, who are quickly gaining notoriety as well. The music ranges from quirky and hilarious to profound and ethereal, and the pieces create worlds and context far outweighing their length. The music is enlightened with the help of Photinos’s favorite collaborators, pianist Vicki Ray and percussionist Doug Perkins. Perkins also serves as the album's producer, with Todd Reynolds and Pascal Le Boeuf as co-producers.

Including Molly Joyce’s “Sit and Dance.”

Released on New Amsterdam Records in August 2017.