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Following their critically acclaimed debut album, Passport (2008), Dominant Curve, a new self-produced recording from the group, marks their second release on In a Circle Records. Like much of the quartet's output, the album is global in its scale - representing traditions from France, United States, Uzbekistan, Japan, and beyond.

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Sales Points

• Dominant Curve was featured on NPR's All Songs Considered, and Brooklyn Rider's video of their Tiny Desk concert is live on NPR as well
• The quartet has toured/performed with YoYo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble, Suzanne Vega, Kayhan Kalhor, Martin Hayes, Christina Courtin and Jenny Scheinman.
• Brooklyn Rider will be touring the US in February/March of 2010 (over 20 dates), promoting it's upcoming new release, Dominant Curve. Seattle, Indianapolis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Chapel Hill, San Diego, LA, NYC, Portland and more.
• Full Service press/publicity campaign by label's in-house PR firm; including, but not limited to viral/email campaigns, physical promotional mailouts, etc.
• For Fans of Kronos Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, The Silk Road Ensemble
• Song 'Second Bounce' featured on RELIX Magazine's April/May CD Sampler

Press Quotes

'This wildly eclectic CD reflects its members' omnivorous tastes: haunting Armenian laments, Osvaldo Golijov's arrangement of a lovely ballad by the Mexican art-rock band Cafe Tacuba, and the driving Gypsy-inflected improvisations of Colin Jacobsen's tour de force 'Brooklesca.' Brooklyn Rider is recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.'

     —NPR

'This smart string quartet is, at heart, a rock band string quartet... The players present four strong, feisty voices but of like mind. They play off one another. Every phrase, every rhythmic impulse is meant to get your attention.'

     —LA Times

'Now we're talking! This is not mainstream classical music or lite FM muzak. It's grabbing, cunningly confrontational chamber music like a horror movie tragedy score.'

     —The Big Takeover

The longstanding members of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble are set to release one of the most inventive and thrilling albums of the year so far with Dominant Curve.

     —TimeOut Chicago

'Excellent'

     —Huffington Post

'Superb'

     —Chicago Reader

'One of the most inventive and thrilling albums of the year'

     —TimeOut Chicago