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A Dust in Time
The Del Sol Quartet’s world-premiere recording of Huang Ruo’s A Dust In Time traces a meditative journey inspired by Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas. The album length palindromic passacaglia grows towards ecstasy from silence before returning to its source. The music will be released in conjunction with Felicia Lee’s hand-drawn coloring book, inviting the listener to create your own mandalas in real-time along with Del Sol's euphoric performance.
A note from Del Sol:
Over the last twelve months, Dust - as we affectionately call it - has become our measure of time, marking experiences raw, intense and transcendent. Our journey with Dust began with a tearful Zoom call where Huang Ruo first heard his notes brought to life - notes that for months had turned over in his head as he fell asleep. For the first live performance, we gathered friends and strangers in a park to bask in musical respite during the tense days following the 2020 presidential election. Most recently, Dust echoed off the Yampa River’s canyon walls, enveloping our fellow rafters in sound as they bobbed in the eddy of a sandbank.
This recording and its companion coloring book is a culmination of our desire to share this life-embracing meditation.
“excavations of beauty from the elemental” - New York Times
Mandalas by Felicia Lee from the coloring book
U.S. Premiere of A Dust in Time from Grace Cathedral, San Francisco