Jason Treuting’s “Go Placidly With Haste” – Live Record Release Concert at ShapeShifter May 29

Join us at the newly relocated ShapeShifter Lab in Park Slope, Brooklyn for a concert experience of the brand new album from Sō Percussion’s Jason Treuting! With special guest performers Cenk Ergun, Grey McMurray, Beth Meyers and Amy Garapic.

DOORS AT 7PM – MUSIC AT 7:30
Stay after for drinks and hang til 9:30

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. — Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata” (1927)

The ostensible follow-up to Sō Percussion co-founder and composer Jason Treuting’s ambitious work Nine Numbers, Go Placidly with Haste is a multi-movement sonic meditation that actually bears a more distinct connection to Treuting’s early work Amid the Noise (2006) — which began as a soundtrack, then morphed into Sō Percussion’s third album, and from there into a communal music-making project that can occur with a flexible number of musicians in almost any combination.

Go Placidly takes up that thread and weaves it into a vivid tapestry of moods, styles and genres, from the oddly folk-inflected strains of “1927” (featuring Irish singer and Afro Celt Sound System mainstay Iarla Ó Lionáird) to the Eno-esque keyboards and electronics of “White Diamond,” the frenetic and angular “Build Up,” the mournful and stately “Slow Moving Chords” (with singer-songwriter Sam Amidon), the groove-chasing “Four Lines” (with composer and singer Angélica Negrón) and plenty more. By turns whimsical, expansive and exploratory, this is new music in the most thrilling and adventurous sense of the word.

credits

released May 10, 2024

Produced by Jason Treuting with Beth Meyers, Cenk Ergun and Matt Poirier
Recorded mostly at Guilford Sound with Dave Snyder and Matt Hall engineering
Edited by Dave Snyder at Guilford Sound
Additional editing and recording by Matt Poirier at Princeton University (Studio A) and the Green House
Mixed by Matt Poirier at the Green House
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe