Novella

Description

Comprising six tracks and lasting sixteen minutes, Novella (composer: Tyler Sabbag) evokes a half-forgotten summer set against the Mediterranean, a dreamlike and enchanting landscape shaped more by nostalgia than by historical reality. Both familiar and strange, the work is at once cinematic and tinged with jazz, orchestral, percussive, and experimental, always in search of beauty, always eager to convey to the listener the joy of living. The whole is exceptionally rich, with the strings of the Stockholm Studio Orchestra, the harp of Laura Somogyi, the saxophones and woodwinds of Ted Taforo, the brass of Dave Nelson, the guitar, bass, and keyboards of Duncan Thum, the vibraphone and marimba of Tommy Kesecker, the bass of David Tranchina, and the guitar of Jimmy Dee, not to mention the drums and percussion of unique abundance, played by Tyler Sabbag himself, an Emmy Award winner. Composed in 2024, the work was recorded in Joshua Tree, Stockholm, Altadena, and New York. Mixing was done by Tyler Sabbag in Joshua Tree and mastering by Jett Galindo in Los Angeles.