## Counterpoint - Artist(s): [[James McVinnie]] - Release Year: [[2021]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[alternative]], [[contemporary classical]], [[experimental]], [[electronic]] - [Bandcamp Link](https://jamesmcvinnie.bandcamp.com/album/counterpoint) Notes: Organ #album #👍 %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | %% ## Bandcamp Copy > Acclaimed UK organist James McVinnie returns to Bedroom Community to release Counterpoint, a double portrait album of music by Philip Glass and J S Bach recorded at the organ of Trinity College, Cambridge. The James McVinnie Ensemble features material from Counterpoint in a headline show at London’s Barbican Centre on 23rd November 2021. > > McVinnie writes: ’This is in some ways an album by mistake. I’d made two tracks of music by Philip Glass during the lockdown, using organ samples and didn’t quite know what to do with them. Lockdown also allowed me to revisit some of Bach’s most austere and extraordinary keyboard music which I’d learnt over a decade ago: I realised in an instant that the minimalist primers from the 1960s I’d made share so much of the same emotional directness and intensity of Bach’s music that was so deeply imbedded in my muscle memory and musical consciousness. From this kernel flowered the central tenets of my Counterpoint album.’ > > McVinnie’s new record offers a deftly skilled and powerfully expressive union between these two cornerstone musicians — its unique contrast becomes a mesmerising and uniquely affecting experience. The strength of the musicality throughout Counterpoint — both academic and intuitive — yields a clear bridge between the disparities of its...  more > > ### credits > > released December 3, 2021 > > Images by Luís Filipe Cunha