--- product_id: 4604113 title: "Meanwhile" brand: "eighth blackbird" price: "€ 39.65" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/4604113-meanwhile store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Meanwhile **Brand:** eighth blackbird **Price:** € 39.65 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Meanwhile by eighth blackbird - **How much does it cost?** € 39.65 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/4604113-meanwhile) ## Best For - eighth blackbird enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted eighth blackbird brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description Remarkable new-music ensemble eighth blackbird has won Grammy awards for it's last two albums on Cedille Records - and now the group returns with meanwhile, an album showcasing the kaleidoscopic variety of contemporary classical music. Always dazzling and exuberant, eighth blackbird here present world premiere recordings of works by Stephen Hartke, Missy Mazzoli, and Roshanne Etezady alongside well-known works of Glass, Ades, and Hurel. Review 2013 GRAMMY Award winner, Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Eighth Blackbird --National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, 2013...Stephen Hartke's miraculous Meanwhile, the CD's title-track, is an absolute prize consisting of five jaunty, Asian-infused movements, clanging and tootling with pleasure…Missy Mazzoli's Still Life With Avalanche and two movements from Roshanne Etezady's Damaged Goods…encounter more sober topics and produce more mysterious moods and occasional violence.As the well-written notes reveal, there is an engaging story behind the way each piece came into being, along with such useful bits of trivia... --Gramophone Magazine, Laurence Vittes, January 2013The Best Classical Recordings of 2012: The adventurous ensemble Eighth Blackbird has entranced listeners in recent years with its theatrical interpretations of new music. Its performances on disc are equally electric, with dynamic interpretations of works including Philippe Hurel's kaleidoscopic '...à mesure,' Stephen Hartke's quirky 'Meanwhile: Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays' and Philip Glass's 'Music in Similar Motion' --The New York Times ## Images ![Meanwhile - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qwYw+RnHL.jpg) ![Meanwhile - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71XcV3r8UAL.jpg) ![Meanwhile - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/712fAoJi-8L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ These Doors Lead to Sonic Frontiers *by D***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2013* This album of contemporary classical music from four young composers and two well-known seniors are as varied as any given moment, which perhaps is why the album's creators adopted one of the featured work's wonderful title, Meanwhile, and the graphic artist provided the perfect cover image of doors, one open to white light and its comprised spectrum. This music is witty, challenging, noisy, surprising, clever, narrow, global, and even soothing: a box of Forrest Gump's chocolates. Such a concept album comes from the mind of Eighth Blackbird, a fine ensemble of forward-looking musicians who convincingly perform some wild music. The album is not for the musically timid but a fair listening will bring rewards.The first piece, by Missy Mazzoli, deals with paradox. Still Life with Avalanche commences with a developing harmonica- or sho-like drone from which many various folkloric melodies and rhythms, clarinet wailing, gamelan metallophone flourishes, percussive bombs, and a twisted Spanish bolero spin out. It is a chaos with harmonic familiarity, a funhouse dream. Philippe Hurel's piece for sextet, à mesure, must be apprehended by its underlying progressive pattern, not the superficial tunes (or lack thereof). It begins with an explosion of every-instrument-for-itself that suddenly drops into silence. A new outburst comes but different in form and it too drops away. A third seemingly haphazard flow ensues but now slowly collapses. The fourth entry is more rhythmic with machine-like repetition that just before it seems to fade increases and develops scherzolike. Eventually, the final explosive cycle turns into a nebulous, mysterious cloud leading to a long pulsing percussive chord of bell and piano. The first of two sections of Roshanne Etezady's 4-part work, Damaged Goods, is next in the program. It serves to rest the ear with a gentle dawning of piano bass chords, arising pastoral of strings and woodwinds, and a quick return to sleep. The six sections of Stephen Hartke's Meanwhile: Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays are Asian influenced, and the instruments are adjusted toward that sound and fexatones (the equivalent to the singing saw) add color. There are hints of Indonesian gamelan (shadow puppets are a major theatric form there) and Japanese minimalism (referencing bunraku puppetry) as well as an East European hora and a Stravinsky flute. Other sections seem to tell a story. There is a somber church motet, a country dance, a satyr's pavane...at least to me. The enjoyable theatrical music allows the listener's imagination to flow. Philip Glass offers a meditation, which as in a mantra every apparent repetition is actually different. His trademark pulsing minimalism becomes a spinning dance, its risings and fallings of crosscurrent waves soon become a machine that refuses to quit its churning; then from various instrumental combinations it evolves into a Southeast Asian dance with metallophones, ending abruptly. Catch, Thomas Adès' piece for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano is performed dramatically with the clarinetist, the outsider to the usual piano trio, desperately wanting 'in.' He darts around the piano until finally accepted at the last few notes of the composition. Musically, it is largely a noisy affair with pizzicato strings, piano bass rumblings, slapping cello, glissandos. It shifts into dreamlike snatches of tunes and styles, familiar yet indefinite. The album closes with the second piece of Etezady. It is a fast, loud, propulsive flurry with a marimba and string middle section. Its title is Eleventh Hour and we feel the frantic attempt to meet the deadline. The album amazes, and Eighth Blackbird performs the very difficult works in exemplary fashion. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Really interesting music! *by N***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2015* Everything I hoped it would be. Makes the imagination run wild. Sounds a bit different every time through, because you notice different things. Love it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great playing, gritty and deeply effective. *by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2014* In a mixed rep of contemporary music for small string group, this is a great CD, I will listen many more times. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/4604113-meanwhile](https://www.desertcart.be/products/4604113-meanwhile) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-04-27*