Friday, April 10. Asheville, NC – Max Hatt / Edda Glass, Jazz-Americana duo, will take a break from recording their grand prize album at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Studios to perform a live studio webcast concert this evening, Friday, April 10th, at 9 PM EDT. To be released later this year by NewSong Recordings, the album is being produced by Pat Sansone of Wilco and the Autumn Defense. Max Hatt / Edda Glass were chosen for the recording session from the international Mountain Stage / NewSong Contest, held at Lincoln Center in New York City, where they were awarded the grand prize by judges from NewSong, ASCAP, Lincoln Center, and the producers of the upcoming LP.
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“I was mesmerized by the music of Max Hatt / Edda Glass from the first moment I heard them,” says the album’s producer Pat Sansone. “They have the ability to create a deep sonic landscape […] with songs that possess a mysterious and soulful magic. I’m more than excited to be working with them.” “Max Hatt/Edda Glass often defied categorization,” said Gar Ragland, NewSong’s director and the album’s executive producer, calling them “arguably the most distinctive finalist act – let alone winner – we’ve ever had in the program’s thirteen year history.” In conjunction with the album’s forthcoming release, Max Hatt / Edda Glass will play on NPR’s Mountain Stage and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
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After the contest, the duo entered into an intensive creative phase to come up with new material for the album. “That was the best prize of all— to suddenly be immersed in creative work,” says Glass. “Gar and Pat have really encouraged and supported us to go after something unique and artistic,” adds Hatt, saying that the material explores new rhythmic territory, which they are thrilled to be recording with a quartet, featuring Clipper Anderson on bass and River Guerguerian on drums. Guerguerian, an Asheville-based award-winning multi-percussionist, has recorded on over 200 albums and film soundtracks, and has played with such groups as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lizz Wright, and The Gipsy Kings. Likewise Anderson has played with a long list of jazz greats, including Michael Brecker, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Benny Golson. Based in Seattle, he is known for his virtuosic bass lines, and has already collaborated with Max Hatt / Edda Glass on the NewSong-released single ‘Occasional Summer.’
“Our recently released song ‘Occasional Summer’ with Clipper is a taste of what we’re driving at here at Echo Mountain,” says Glass. “Tracking live in the studio with Clipper and River has been exactly the deep musical conversation we were hoping for— only different of course, because those magic surprise moments are what it’s all about. Now that the basic tracks are down we’re digging into the conversation between our jazz influences and these other textures and feels we want to evoke. We want it to resonate primally, immediately, in addition to all the deeper stuff that’s there musically. So with all of Pat and [co-producer] Josh [Shapera’s] experience in pop and rock, it’s a huge privilege to have their ears and ideas and direction. Combined with Pat’s innate sensitivity for what this is all about, I feel like something special and unique is in process this week.” For more info on Max Hatt / Edda Glass, click here. For more info on NewSong Music, click here. For more info on Echo Mountain Recording Studios, click here. 
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