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Our album “Scatter My Ashes” is now available at Bandcamp and was featured today in their NEW AND NOTABLE section. Here’s the blurb…

“Scatter My Ashes exists at a crossroads between multiple styles, but emerges with something rich, textural, ambient and riveting” -Bandcamp

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Top This and Top That

There are all sorts of Top Lists. OCTET Ensemble made a few with our debut album. It's been a fun ride.

Scatter my Ashes reached

No. 1 on Amazon's Classical Hot New Releases

No. 8 on Billboard's Classical

Featured in iTunes Classical New and Noteworthy.

Scatter my Ashes was chosen as Album of the Week in December 2014 for the Seattle based 98.1 Classical KING FM radio show - Second Inversion

Scatter my Ashes was chosen as an Album of the Month in the October 2014 issue of - textura

Scatter my Ashes was selected as a top pick for the I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Summer 2014 Mixtape - I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Scatter my Ashes was selected as a 2014 TOP 20 - textura

Scatter my Ashes was selected as a 2014 TOP 30 - Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange

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OCTET on the Billboard Charts

OCTET ensemble's album debut Scatter My Ashes reached No. 8 on the Billboard classical music charts! Other accolades include a feature in iTunes New and Noteworthy classical, No. 1 in Amazon's Hot New Releases, and Album of the Month at textura.

We also like numerological relationships and the serendipity of No. 8 for OCTET at Billboard.

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Remote Record

Lately, we've been recording at John Kilgore Sound & Recording in NYC because the musicians of OCTET live and work in and around Manhattan.  It is a great facility, perfect for our needs. Our engineer, John Kilgore, has years of experience behind him and completely understands our music, offering and implementing ingenious and informed suggestions on mixing and balancing. I trust his ability greatly with these sessions. Because I live in San Francisco, he is basically running the show with a score in-hand and occasional input from me as I'm monitoring via SKYPE. John knows how to get the most out of the instrumentalists - whether they are horns, drums, keyboards, bass, or voice - without fatiguing them. At a recent session, the microphone placement for our bassist, Eleonore Oppenheim, was perfect, capturing a warm, rich and full-bodied sound. It is critical to know when to do a retake or realize when to "fix-it-in-the-mix" so as to save time and the musicians energy and, he always seems to find the perfect balance. We love working with John and can't wait to start mixing the concerto and hear the final results!

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OCTET taking a bow after premiere  of Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall (photo courtesy of Ken Goodman)