Welcome Wagon - EstherEsther, the latest effort from Brooklyn duo Welcome Wagon is as much about homecoming as it is about making peace with and a home in uncertainty. The project had it's beginnings in the summer of 2017, when the family took a two month sabbatical to California. In reflecting upon that time, Pastor Vito Aiuto says "It felt like we had been changed, and so to go home was going to be alright." Shortly after returning to Brooklyn, he found himself holding

as a common denominator- a taste and a sensitivity that were shared by all

It contains thirteen unpublished pieces

the soprano's longstanding musical partner and conductor of Les Paladins

With a heavy head of rosé it seemed like ecstatic poetry

An institution that uses the instrumentalization of good and bad

It calls for the highest standards and degree of precision

where local folklore

are joined for this recording by cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand

made all the more special for the participation of his #1 disciple

Sian Brooke

while Hikari must rediscover her own course

he composed a "Tenth Symphony": "It's not the one Beethoven made sketches for