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William Mason
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WILL MASON is a composer, drummer, and music scholar from Maine, now living in New York City. His main performance project is the Will Mason Ensemble, a chamber ensemble of voice, oboe, alto sax, two guitars, bass, and drums. The ensemble’s debut album, Beams of the Huge Night, was released on New Amsterdam Records in August 2015. Mason wrote most of the music for the album in a cabin in the woods of northern Maine, away from electricity, the internet, running water, and phone service. He is fascinated by how it feels to be isolated in nature — how everything feels simultaneously beautiful and threatening, and how the elemental and oppressive hugeness of nature can inspire awe or unease
Beams of the Huge Night
Label: New Amsterdam Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Finn; Door 6; Door 7; Dixfield, ME.; Strong, ME.; Brille.
Will Mason Ensemble: Beams of the Huge Night
by Karl Ackermann
New York City resident Will Mason, while pursuing a Ph.D. in music at Columbia University, took the time to submerge himself in the most Spartan and remote conditions of his native Maine for the inspirations of nature that become manifest in Beams of the Huge Night. The drummer and composer assembled an unusually populated septet to ...
