Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Dynamic Maximum Tension (2 CD)

Product Description

Title: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Dynamic Maximum Tension Format: CD Label: Nonesuch Barcode: 0075597903508

Release date: September 8th 2023

Composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue and his Secret Society ensemble make their Nonesuch Records debut with Dynamic Maximum Tension.  The album pays homage to some of Argue’s key influences with original songs dedicated to R. Buckminster Fuller, Alan Turing, and Mae West.  Fellow Nonesuch artist Cécile McLorin Salvant, with whom Argue collaborated on her long-form musical fable Ogresse, joins the ensemble for ‘Mae West: Advice’.  Dynamic Maximum Tension’s 11 tracks, on two CDs, also include a response to Duke Ellington’s ‘Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue’, titled ‘Tensile Curves’, among other original songs.  The album track ‘Dymaxion’ – a portmanteau of “dynamic maximum tension” – takes its name from the term coined by architect and inventor Fuller to describe his concept of using technology and resources to maximum advantage.

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

1. Dymaxion
2. All In
3. Ebonite
4. Last Waltz for Levon
5. Wingèd Beasts
6. Your Enemies Are Asleep

Disc 2:

1. Codebreaker
2. Ferromagnetic
3. Single-Cell Jitterbug
4. Tensile Curves
5. Mae West: Advice