Campaign Songs, by Kronos Quartet & Michael Gordon

Campaign Songs

by Kronos Quartet & Michael Gordon

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	1.	The Star-Spangled Banner 00:47
	2.	America the Beautiful 01:04
	3.	God Bless America 01:06
	4.	Taps 01:01
	5.	When Johnny Comes Marching Home 01:01
	6.	This Land is Your Land 01:05
	7.	Dixie 00:53
	8.	Which Side Are You On? 00:57

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Premiered online between October and November 2020, Campaign Songs is a collaboration with Kronos Quartet intended to galvanize voter turnout in the 2020 election. Recorded in isolation by each member of the Quartet, the eight short pieces that comprise Campaign Songs were accompanied by specially-made video works touching on racial, climate, and economic justice issues, among other topics.

The pieces, arranged by Michael Gordon, draw from the canon of American patriotic, political, and folk music, including Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” “God Bless America,” (a campaign song for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his 1940 opponent Wendell Willkie), “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” (a campaign song for James A. Garfield), “America the Beautiful” and “The Star Spangled Banner.”

Campaign Songs will be released on limited edition 7-inch vinyl in summer 2023.

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released July 21, 2023

Kronos Quartet
David Harrington - violin
John Sherba - violin
Hank Dutt - viola
Sunny Yang - cello

Kronos Quartet appears courtesy of Kronos Performing Arts Association.

Produced by Adam Cuthbert, Michael Gordon and David Harrington
Recorded in isolation in September–October 2020
Mix Engineer: Adam Cuthbert
Project Supervisor: Nikolás McConnie-Saad

Executive producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe
Label manager: Bill Murphy
Sales & licensing: Adam Cuthbert
Label assistant: Phong Tran
Art direction and graphic design: Denise Burt

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Michael Gordon's music merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power embodying, in the words of The New Yorker's Alex Ross, "the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism."

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