COMPOSER DANIELLE EVA SCHWOB UNVEILS NEW WORK AND VIDEO “OUT OF THE TUNNEL” FEATURING PUBLIQUARTET

CLASSICAL ALBUM, OUT OF THE TUNNEL, COMING AUGUST 13

June 25, 2021—Acclaimed composer, performer and producer Danielle Eva Schwob unveils a new work today, “Out of the Tunnel,” alongside a music video, which premiered earlier this week via Starry Constellation Magazine—listen here and watch here. The first movement of a four-movement string quartet, the new composition is the initial offering from Schwob’s debut full-length album as a composer in the classical realm, Out of the Tunnel, out August 13 via Innova Recordings.

“Out of the Tunnel” was commissioned from Schwob by New Music USA for the Grammy-nominated performing ensemble PUBLIQuartet. “I wrote the music of ‘Out of the Tunnel’ especially for and in collaboration with PUBLIQuartet, knowing their uncommon combination of skills,” Schwob explains. “They are a unique group, not only with all the classical chops you could imagine but also nearly jazz-level improvisational abilities and a rock-like energy that’s very attractive.”

The video was directed by James Mountford (BANKS, Ciara, Chance the Rapper), a photographer, director and multi-disciplinary artist whose work has appeared in Vogue, Elle, i-D, Dazed & Confused and more. Additionally, videos for the remaining three parts of the quartet are forthcoming.

Out of the Tunnel consists of nine compositions that pull from Schwob’s various influences as a classically trained musician, from the Bach she absorbed as a child through her father, a classical guitarist, to minimalist icon Steve Reich and the cinematic sounds of Philip Glass and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Further inspired by nature and other forms of art, such as painting, the chamber music on the album maintains a striking connection between its separate parts—works commissioned by the American Composers Forum, for instance, feature solo violin, cello and piano and are named after renowned British painters who socialized together in real life, while the first four tracks on the album comprise the four movements of a cohesive quartet. Similarly, many of the album’s performers are close colleagues of Schwob with whom she has worked on stage and in the studio over several years, including the PUBLIQuartet (who perform throughout the album), harpist Ashley Jackson, the Grammy-nominated flutist Nathalie Joachim, cellist Mike Nicolas of Brooklyn Rider, pianist Orion Weiss and others.

Originally from London but now based in New York City and Los Angeles, Schwob studied music composition at New York University and the Manhattan School of Music. Her music has been featured at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! and Philip Glass’s MATA Festival, as well as at such venues as Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette and Issue Project Room. In addition to New Music USA and the American Composers Forum, she has earned honors and commissions from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, BMI and more. She has also been a Sundance Institute Composers Lab Fellow, a Con Edison EtM Composer-in-Residence, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award Finalist, a two-time MAP Fund Finalist and an ACA Associate-Artist-in-Residence.

Schwob’s forthcoming classical album comes on the heels of her critically acclaimed pop project DELANILA’s 2020 release, Overloaded, about which NPR Music remarked, “It really creates a world…a huge record,” and from which The New York Times highlighted the track “It’s Been A While Since I Went Outside” in its weekly Playlist feature. In addition to writing and singing all the songs on Overloaded, Schwob played guitar and synthesizers, added programming and helmed string arrangements alongside co-producer and three-time Grammy winner David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, Peter Gabriel), with mastering by Emily Lazar (Haim, Sia, Coldplay) and top session musicians including Adam Agati (Cory Henry, The Funk Apostles), Reuben Cainer (Animus Rexx), Jordan Brooks (Albert Hammond Jr.), Aaron Steele (Portugal. The Man), Pearse MacIntyre, Jim Orso and Nicholas Semrad.

DANIELLE EVA SCHWOB—OUT OF THE TUNNEL

1.–4. Out of the Tunnel: I. Fast II. Slow III. Medium IV. Fast + Coda
5. Traveling North (vibraphone and flute version)
6. The Long Way Down
7. Breathing Underwater
8. Reflections on Francis Bacon
9. Reflections on Lucian Freud