Contemporaneous & David Bloom - Dylan Mattingly: The Wild Heart

Mattingly’s score does nothing but linger, luxuriating in the good and the bad, the spiritual and the doubtful, and above all the ecstatic … [he] has internalized a wealth of musical styles … But Mattingly doesn’t quote. Instead, his influences surface subtly, abstracted in, say, a rhythmic gesture. In the end, the language is entirely his own.’ - New York Times

“Dylan Mattingly is a true original whose music fills the listener with a sense of overflowing abundance. Dylan’s default mode is intense, ecstatic: his music clangs and chimes, and its resonances seem to linger in the ear long after the physical sound ceases. Events can feel like they're moving in slow sync with the rhythms of the celestial orbs but then will break out into some euphoric pagan jig. He’s a genuine American Maverick in the true sense of the term.” – John Adams
 
Nonesuch Records releases The Wild Heart, the label debut from composer Dylan Mattingly, The Wild Heart, performed by Contemporaneous with conductor David Bloom and vocal soloist Iarla Ó Lionáird. The album comprises the five-movement work The Transmutation Notebooks as well as Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things). (The vinyl edition features two movements from The Transmutation Notebooks: ‘Ulysses Dances’ and ‘Last Dance’.) 

Tracklist:

1. The Transmutation Notebooks: I. Ulysses Dances 
2. The Transmutation Notebooks: II. Notes for Another Life
3. The Transmutation Notebooks: III. The History of Life in Reverse
4. The Transmutation Notebooks: IV. Last Dance
5. The Transmutation Notebooks: V. Past Ithaca
6. Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (These are the Tears of Things)