Dessa Announces New Album Sound the Bells: Recorded live at Orchestra Hall for November 2019 Release

Doomtree artist Dessa has just announced a new live album entitled Sound the Bells: Recorded live at Orchestra Hall, which will be released on November 8 via Doomtree Records. This release will feature 17 tracks, and orchestration the Grammy-winning Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Hicks

This album was recorded earlier this year, at the Orchestra Hall in Minneappolis, Minnesota, with the 17 tracks rearranged by musician and composer Andy Thompson. This venue was fitted with an array of suspended microphones to capture the performances for the recording of this album. In preparation for the album, Dessa released the orchestral of “Call Off Your Ghost,” which can be seen below.

The rapper explained her growth as an artist, and the recording of this performance in an interview last year:

Earlier this year the performer released a 7-inch single entitled “Good For You,” where the rapper showed off her vocal abilities.

In a recent interview with The Current, Dessa explained:

“Part of me thinks that, lifestyle choices aside, my voice is just older and I happen to like it more. You can hear it even now – there’s a little texture in it that I didn’t have when I was younger. When I was young, in my early 20s, I was a heavy smoker and I would smoke a bunch of cigarettes and sometimes scream outside to try to get texture in my voice. Part of it was that the entire genre that I enjoyed listening to, with the exception of maybe Sarah White in Minneapolis, the instrument is male. And I don’t have that instrument. So I’m trying to figure out how to play a cello suite on a violin. And I didn’t like that. I wanted a bass-y, powerful voice. And so I feel like now that I’ve spent those years alive and also spent those years living the way that I have, with a lot of grief and yelling and some great whiskey and some awesome fun nights and some lousy late nights, yeah, I like the instrument a little more.”

Sound the Bells: Recorded live at Orchestra Hall

1. Jumprope (Live)
2. Good Grief (Live)
3. Boy Crazy (Live)
4. Velodrome (Live)
5. 5 out of 6 (Live)
6. Dixon’s Girl (Live)
7. Grade School Games (Live)
8. Call Off Your Ghost (Live)
9. The Chaconne (Live)
10. Ride (Live)
11. The Beekeeper (Live)
12. Fire Drills (Live)
13. Fighting Fish (Live)
14. The Bullpen (Live)
15. Warsaw (Live)
16. Sound the Bells (Live)
17. Flyer Is a Verb (Live)
18. Skeleton Key (Live)

Photo Credit: Marisa Rose Ficara