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Subminiature(Dear Life Records)
Add date: 2.18.2025
Release date: 2.14.2025
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The music of Philadelphia-based Hour cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel’s. Subminiature, the new live album by Philadelphia instrumental chamber folk ensemble Hour, comes fresh off the heels of 2024’s Ease the Work and provides a capstone for the band’s oeuvre to date, brandishing new material alongside longstanding arrangements of pieces from 2018’s Anemone Red and Tiny Houses, the inaugural releases of Dear Life Records. Across this collection of recordings harvested over two years of extensive DIY touring, bandleader Michael Cormier-O’Leary demonstrates a deep understanding of the character of his shifting ensemble and its players. Subminiature also serves as a hard worn tour diary, cataloguing concerts that were affectionately curated to highlight the strength of the music; at once adventurous and melodic and insistent upon spaces that encourage deeper connection.
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Bluesky
Dear Life Records
Spotify
Tidal
TikTok
The music of Philadelphia-based Hour cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel’s. Subminiature, the new live album by Philadelphia instrumental chamber folk ensemble Hour, comes fresh off the heels of 2024’s Ease the Work and provides a capstone for the band’s oeuvre to date, brandishing new material alongside longstanding arrangements of pieces from 2018’s Anemone Red and Tiny Houses, the inaugural releases of Dear Life Records. Across this collection of recordings harvested over two years of extensive DIY touring, bandleader Michael Cormier-O’Leary demonstrates a deep understanding of the character of his shifting ensemble and its players. Subminiature also serves as a hard worn tour diary, cataloguing concerts that were affectionately curated to highlight the strength of the music; at once adventurous and melodic and insistent upon spaces that encourage deeper connection.