BLYTHE GAISSERT
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ARTIST STATEMENT:
In the past year, as I was deciding about what sort of artistic statement I wanted to make with my debut album, the idea of how important having a safe, warm and loving place to live played a prominent place in my life. When we were getting ready to move, I found myself having long conversations with my 7 year old about what “home” is. I told him that it isn’t just the place, but the love of the people inside the home, as well as the feeling of the community outside the home. At the same time, we started having all of these horrific stories from the border about people trying to find a safe place to live being separated from their families, children isolated from parents. All this after so many thousands of years of people being exiled from their homes and creating new ones......it started with me and rippled outwards and became obvious this is what I wanted to use as a theme. When I approached the composers, this resonated with them as well, both personally and in a larger social sense.

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TRACK LIST

Archaeology // by David T. Little with text by Royce Vavrek

Songs from Exile // by Rene Orth, text by Li Qingzhao
I. Dian Di
II. Distant Dreams

Nous Deux // by Martin Hennessy with text by Paul Eluard

Carne barata // by Laura Kaminsky from Hometown to the World libretto by Kimberly Reed

Home is where I take my shoes off // by John Glover with text by Kelley Rourke

ramonanewyorkamsterdamn // text and music by Kamala Sankaram

Jerry Hammer // text and music by Ricky Ian Gordon

Bungalow // by Mikael Karlsson with text by Rob Stephenson
part 1
part 2

RECORDED AT:
OKTAVEN STUDIOS, Mt. Vernon NY
Producer: Judith Sherman

ABOUT BLYTHE

Mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert has established herself as one of the preeminent interpreters of some of the brightest stars of new classical music. A true singing actress, she has received critical acclaim for her interpretations of both new and traditional repertoire in opera, concert, and chamber repertoire. “Gaissert gave a dramatically powerful, vocally stunning portrait of a woman growing increasingly desperate and delusional from lack of contact with the outer world. Gaissert’s development of Loats’s personality was utterly believable, and she gave a virtuoso performance of this very challenging music’ (Arlo McKinnon, Opera News for The Echo Drift). Known for her warm tone, powerful stage presence, and impeccable musicianship and technical prowess…."Mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert was impossible to ignore as the headstrong Mother Marie. She has a pure, powerful and appealing voice and a forceful stage presence to match." (Denver Post) →READ MORE

ABOUT JUDITH SHERMAN, PRODUCER

A twelve-time Grammy Award nominee and the winner of the award for Classical Producer of the Year for 1993, 2007 and 2011, Judith Sherman has made an indelible contribution to the catalogue of recorded classical music. Early in her career she was employed at WBAI-FM in New York City, beginning as an engineer and over the course of four years working her way up to become Producer and then Music Director. During the summers of 1976 through 1994, she was the recording engineer of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. In 2009, she received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, the highest award given by Chamber Music America. She currently works as a freelance recording producer and engineer in New York. She has collaborated with such artists as Rudolf Serkin, Ursula Oppens, Christopher O’Riley and Jennifer Koh; with the Kronos Quartet and the Cleveland, American, Chiara and Pacifica String Quartets; and with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Donald Runnicles and David Zinman. Her recordings in the field of contemporary classical music have been particularly noted, including work with such composers as Steve Reich, Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, John Adams, John Corigliano, David Rakowski, Kenneth Fuchs, Steve Mackey, Philip Glass, Eric Moe, Joan Tower and Terry Riley. Her recordings have appeared on many labels, including Nonesuch, Telarc, Cedille, Bridge, Arabesque, CRI, CBS, Koch and New World.

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