The National's Bryce Dessner to release collaborative album Aheym with Kronos Quartet

22 August 2013, 11:22 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton

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Ever-prolific musician and The National guitarist, Bryce Dessner has announced a new collaborative album with the Kronos Quartet.

Having only recently outlined plans for a curated Grateful Dead covers album, Dessner will now team up with the avant-garde chamber ensemble for Aheym (meaning “homeward” in Yiddish), out 5 November on Anti- Records.

Dessner first worked with the group for a performance at Celebrate Brooklyn! festival in New York back in 2009. The LP’s tracklisting is in full below:

1 Aheym
2 Little Blue Something
3 Tenebre
4 Tour Eiffel

Photo by Andrew Paynter

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