Render by Roomful of Teeth

The sophomore album from GRAMMY Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, Render has been praised as encompassing "bounteous diversity and ingenuity" (Tiny Mix Tapes) and as "a veritable embarrassment of vocal riches" (Textura). Building on the group's widely acclaimed first album, which won the 2014 GRAMMY for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and included Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices, Render delights and surprises.

The album features compositions from Missy Mazzoli, William Brittelle, Wally Gunn, Brad Wells, Caleb Burhans, and Eric Dudley, and has received a 2016 GRAMMY nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

The new collection of works is consistently, unstintingly gorgeous, inviting listeners into an unimaginably varied sound world, all while showcasing Roomful of Teeth's trademark virtuosity. Render could be considered a companion to the group's first record - it features the same singers, engineer, cover artist, and some of the same composers as the first, and it includes a remarkable multi-movement work spread across the album - but this second record is very much in a class of its own.

Tracklist

1.	Vesper Sparrow (Missy Mazzoli)	5:00

2.	The Ascendant: The Beginning And (Wally Gunn)	5:15

3.	High Done No Why To (William Brittelle)	4:48

4.	Beneath (Caleb Burhans)	12:21

5.	The Ascendant: The Fence is Gone (Wally Gunn)	4:49

6.	Otherwise (Brad Wells)	4:40

7.	Suonare / To Sound (Eric Dudley)	2:58

8.	Render (Brad Wells)	8:57

9.	The Ascendant: Surviving Death (Wally Gunn)	7:16

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released April 28, 2015

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