Album Notes

The New American Wing, with composer and guitarist Daniel Raimi, combines the unique instrumentation of trumpet, cello, and guitar into a stylistically diverse and beautiful modern music. With Jacob Varmus (trumpet) and Erica Sattin (cello), the group performs original compositions and arrangements that range in style from Impressionistic to Americana, from freely improvised jazz to haunting country ballads.

Each piece demonstrates a different approach to the challenges of America's immense pool of music, with the simple qualities of direct personal expression. While the music spans a wide range of styles, it avoids the traps of self-conscious genre hopping. Most of the music is notated, but there are occasional areas of improvisation that alternately stand out or blend in with a given piece.

To read recent reviews of our work, visit www.newamericanwing.com, read some of the rave reviews of our work. This music has also been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered," and has been praised by magazines such as Signal to Noise and The Wire.