Composer Danielle Eva Schwob shares second movement of "Out of the Tunnel" quartet, classical album out August 13

COMPOSER DANIELLE EVA SCHWOB UNVEILS SECOND MOVEMENT OF “OUT OF THE TUNNEL” FEATURING PUBLIQUARTET CLASSICAL ALBUM, OUT OF THE TUNNEL, COMING AUGUST 13   photo credit: Shervin Lainez July 23, 2021—Today, acclaimed composer, performer and producer Danielle Eva Schwob unveils the second movement, “Slow,” of her string quartet, “Out of the Tunnel,” featuring renowned ensemble PUBLIQuartet. The new work arrives alongside a video directed by photographer, director and multi-disciplinary artist James Mountford (BANKS, Ciara, Chance the Rapper), which premiered yesterday via Mundane Magazine—watch here. Following the first movement of the quartet, “Fast,” the new work is the second offering from Schwob’s debut full-length album as a composer in the classical realm, Out of the Tunnel, out August 13 via Innova Recordings. Videos for the remaining two parts of the quartet are forthcoming. “The second movement for ‘Out of the Tunnel’ is my favorite, in that it is the calm between two storms and feels to me the closest representation of the way in which I experience the transformative powers of nature,” Schwob says. “The music was written at a moment of pivotal change in my life, shortly after I relocated to Los Angeles. In confronting all of the disorientation that moving gives rise to, I found myself seeking stable footing in the natural world. To me the first and last movements are the move itself—the long fast drive, the whirlwind of change, the action-movie inspired excitement—but it’s this one that’s the soul. The connection to the earth, to the origins of the planet, to ourselves and the perspective on our own time on this spinning rock formation, flickering with its astronomical flukes of life, that nature can grant us if we pause long enough to look for it.” “When making the visuals I kept thinking about the relentless transformation our planet goes through,” Mountford says of the video. “I filmed in very specific landscapes that really emphasized this never-ending shift—a young volcanic cone, thrust up into the landscape in a violent transformation. The strange sculptural tuffas, made over millennia deep underwater by the slow deposit of minerals, then uncovered as water gave way to desert. Waves crashing and reshaping rock, wave by wave, year by year, century by century. The collapse of matter and birth of the stars. Thinking about these things as I listened to ‘Out of the Tunnel’ really accentuated the never-ending metamorphosis time imposes on our planet, the subtleties of progression and the violent changes in tempo—ideas that fit so perfectly with the music Danielle composed.” The “Out of the Tunnel” quartet was commissioned from Schwob by New Music USA for the Grammy-nominated performing ensemble PUBLIQuartet. Out of the Tunnel consists of nine compositions that pull from Schwob’s various influences as a classically trained musician, from the Bach she absorbed as a child through her father, a classical guitarist, to minimalist icon Steve Reich and the cinematic sounds of Philip Glass and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Further inspired by nature and other forms of art, such as painting, the chamber music on the album maintains a striking connection between its separate parts—works commissioned by the American Composers Forum, for instance, feature solo violin, cello and piano and are named after renowned British painters who socialized together in real life, while the first four tracks on the album comprise the four movements of a cohesive quartet. Similarly, many of the album’s performers are close colleagues of Schwob with whom she has worked on stage and in the studio over several years, including the PUBLIQuartet (who perform throughout the album), harpist Ashley Jackson, the Grammy-nominated flutist Nathalie Joachim, cellist Mike Nicolas of Brooklyn Rider, pianist Orion Weiss and others. Originally from London but now based in New York City and Los Angeles, Schwob studied music composition at New York University and the Manhattan School of Music. Her music has been featured at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! and Philip Glass’s MATA Festival, as well as at such venues as Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette and Issue Project Room. In addition to New Music USA and the American Composers Forum, she has earned honors and commissions from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, BMI and more. She has also been a Sundance Institute Composers Lab Fellow, a Con Edison EtM Composer-in-Residence, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award Finalist, a two-time MAP Fund Finalist and an ACA Associate-Artist-in-Residence. Schwob’s forthcoming classical album comes on the heels of her critically acclaimed pop project DELANILA’s 2020 release, Overloaded, about which NPR Music remarked, “It really creates a world…a huge record,” and from which The New York Times highlighted the track “It’s Been A While Since I Went Outside” in its weekly Playlist feature. In addition to writing and singing all the songs on Overloaded, Schwob played guitar and synthesizers, added programming and helmed string arrangements alongside co-producer and three-time Grammy winner David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, Peter Gabriel), with mastering by Emily Lazar (Haim, Sia, Coldplay) and top session musicians including Adam Agati (Cory Henry, The Funk Apostles), Reuben Cainer (Animus Rexx), Jordan Brooks (Albert Hammond Jr.), Aaron Steele (Portugal. The Man), Pearse MacIntyre, Jim Orso and Nicholas Semrad. DANIELLE EVA SCHWOB—OUT OF THE TUNNEL 1.–4. Out of the Tunnel: I. Fast II. Slow III. Medium IV. Fast + Coda 5. Traveling North (vibraphone and flute version) 6. The Long Way Down 7. Breathing Underwater 8. Reflections on Francis Bacon 9. Reflections on Lucian Freud