WeFreeStrings

WeFreeStrings was founded in 2011. This is the group's second album. Leader Melanie Dyer (not to be confused with the Australian country pop songwriter of the same name) is a jazz viola player and composer based in New York City who currently performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Dead Lecturers, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Baba Andrew Lamb, Gwen Laster's New Muse 4tet, William Parker, Tomeka Reid Stringtet, Janice Lowe/Tyehimbe Jess Millie & Christina project, and Patricia Nicholson's Women with an Axe to Grind. She's played and/or recorded with Henry Grimes, Makanda Ken McIntyre's Contemporary African American Composers' Orchestra, Tulivu Donna Cumberbatch, Nona Hendryx, Joe Bonner, Reggie Workman, Howard Johnson, David Haney, and many other notable musicians. She trained with William Lincer (principal violist, New York Philharmonic), Lee Yeingst (principal violist, Colorado Symphony Orchestra), John Jake Kella (NY Metropolitan Opera), and Naomi Fellows (Colorado Symphony Orchestra); and studied viola performance at the LaMont School of Music/University of Denver. "... an outstanding modernist violist" - Anthony Barnett, The Strad. Features Charles Burnham - violin; Gwen Laster - violin; Alexander Waterman - cello; Ken Filiano - bass; Michael Wimberly. Liner notes: William Parker. Mixing and Mastering: Alexander Waterman. Sound engineer: Jon Rosenberg. Recorded by Rene Pierre Allain on June 22 and 23, 2021 at Scholes Street Studio (Brooklyn, NY).