Middle Voice Album Cover

Middle Voice

1 Two Minds
2 This Divorce
3 Beatrice
4 The Yield
5 A Marriage
6 Song & Dance
7 You’re a Big Girl Now
8 Fatal Fire
9 Hunter
10 Passenger
11 That Is All

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The bed tracks of this album were recorded quickly with Tony Scherr at his studio in the three weeks leading up to an unnerving throat surgery in October of 2015. The eventual finished album came together gradually over the following year, with the participation of many wonderful musicians and friends, including Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Norah Jones and Chris Brown. The title, "Middle Voice" comes from a grammatical term (!), wherein the subject of a sentence is both the actor and the acted-upon, both agent and patient; it is meant to reflect the middle part of life--its equivocations, its ambivalence, its modest epiphanies.

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Released November 20, 2017

Produced by Tony Scherr at Tony's house, NYC
Mixed by Tony Scherr with Teddy Kumpel at Ted's house, NYC
Horns recorded by Scotty Hard, assisted by Connor Schultze, at Duro of Brooklyn
Mastered by Gene Paul at G&J Audio
Photo by Angelica Zollo, cover graphics by Melissa Braxton for 212box

Kate Fenner vocals and guitar (2, 3, 9)
Tony Scherr bass and guitar, loops
Kenny Wolleson drums (1, 2, 6, 7), vibraphone (4, 5, 6)
Shawn Pelton drums (3, 9)
Chris Brown organ (1, 9)
Bill Frisell electric guitar and loop (4)
Teddy Kumpel ambient guitar (3, 10)
Norah Jones piano (3, 7, 10)
Jason Moran piano (8)
Mauro Refosco percussion (3)
Mino Cinelu percussion (5)
Steven Bernstein horn arrangements, flugel horn, alto horn (2, 8)
Briggan Krauss baritone saxophone (2)
Brian Drye trombone (2, 8)
Rob Jost french horn (4, 5)

All songs by Kate Fenner c SOCAN/ASCAP and Echo Songs except
"You're a Big Girl Now", Bob Dylan© 1974 by Ram's Horn Music
"That Is All" George Harrison c 1973 Harrisongs Ltd
Coda in "Fatal Fire" from Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard"

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