When the Distance is Blue: Vinyl LP
Macie Stewart

When the Distance is Blue: Vinyl LP

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Label: International Anthem
Release Date: 21st March

You've possibly heard Macie Stewart and not quite realised, the composer and multi-instrumentalist has performed and arranged tracks with Japanese Breakfast, Makaya McCraven, Alabaster DePlume, Resavoir, Mannequin Pussy, or SZA. On 'When The Distance Blue' she steps out on her own with ace experimental label International Anthem for an album that sounds stark, contemplative but viscerally uplifting. 

When the Distance is Blue is Macie Stewart’s International Anthem debut. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser describes the collection as “a love letter to the moments we spend in-between”—a letter realized via an intentional return to piano, her first instrument and the origin of her creative expression. Here Stewart creates a striking and cinematic work through collages of prepared piano, field recordings, and string quartet compositions, one that gives shape to a transient universe all its own while tracing the line of her musical past, full circle.  

Long-heralded in musician circles for her versatility, Stewart stands as a distinguished, go-to collaborator across genre and style, with a collaborative CV that reads like a dream year-end list—performing strings for Makaya McCraven or Japanese Breakfast; singing harmonies with Tweedy; arranging for Alabaster DePlume, Resavoir, Mannequin Pussy, or SZA; co-leading the jagged art-rock experimentation of Finom, her duo with songwriter Sima Cunningham. This varied-yet-distinct sound has led to a name recognition that goes beyond the devoted liner note enthusiast. 

“Macie Stewart has had a hand in making some of the best tracks of the past five years transcendent.” (Pitchfork)

When the Distance is Blue finds her gathering those threads and focusing those sensibilities into a contemplative 8-piece song cycle with help from noted collaborators Lia Kohl, Whitney Johnson (Matchesse), and Zach Moore, as well as International Anthem engineer Dave Vettraino. The result is an album with a musical lexicon which lands somewhere between Alvin Curran’s Songs and Views from the Magnetic Garden and Claire Rousay’s A Softer Focus.


TRACKLIST:
1. I Forget How To Remember My Dreams (ft. Lia Kohl)
2. Tsukiji
3. Murmuration/Memorization
4. Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New
5. Stairwell (Before and After)
6. What Fills You Up Won’t Leave an Empty Cup
7. In Between
8. Disintegration 

 


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