Balourdet Quartet
Photo by Kevin W. Condon
All Album Artwork by Alex Sopp
Single: Impossible Inventions: I. Faster Than Light Machine
Paul Novak
When the Balourdet Quartet first began imagining Strange Machines, they expected to make an album about technology.
Across six centuries of music, the composers on this recording continually return to the same human concerns:
love, memory, grief, hope, curiosity, and wonder.
The machines change. The questions remain.
Looking back, the quartet sees the project not as a statement but as an invitation.
In the end, the album's ultimate message is one of optimism fully realized.
What emerged was something deeply more personal.