Nameless and Awake: Eight Poems by John William Carroll October 3, 2012

This staged concert, with sets, costumes and lighting, is the official record release event for 'Nameless and Awake; Eight Poems by John William Carroll,' the third album from Reuben Butchart Developed and recorded during an artist residency at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, 'Nameless and Awake' is the result of a collaboration between composer/singer-songwriter Reuben Butchart, poet John William Carroll and seven multi-instrumentalists, The Millworkers. Carroll's poems set to Butchart's melodies are sonically shaped into lush arrangements with piano, bass, drums, saxophones, clarinets, flutes from around the world, lute, guitar, strings, voices, metal bells, and crystal bowls. The result is a collection of eight contemporary art songs that cover an eclectic stylistic range, from chamber folk to Latin jazz to ethereal ballad.