Waiting Room, by McKenzie Stubbert

Waiting Room

by McKenzie Stubbert

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1.	Never I Know 02:38	buy track
2.	Ventomine (feat. Tim Fain) 05:13	buy track
3.	Falling Pt. I 02:03	buy track
4.	Turn 06:16	buy track
5.	Err 03:46	buy track
6.	Falling Pt II 03:40	buy track
7.	Iešana 05:10 video	buy track
8.	Respir 05:03	buy track
9.	Falling Pt. III 01:33	buy track
10.	Further 07:30	buy track
11.	Steps (bonus track) 02:34	buy track

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We are pleased to annnouce the limited-edition 180-gram vinyl release of McKenzie Stubbert’s Waiting Room. Pre-order now for the August 18th vinyl release date.

Waiting Room is also available as a cd, digital download (with bonus track), and as a cd/vinyl bundle.

For the Los Angeles-based neo-classical composer, making music is a little like going to therapy. Both are a slow process of self-discovery: grueling yet rewarding. “You can try to make these adjustments, but the best path forward in making art and therapy is to first listen to who you are and be honest about what that is,” McKenzie says.

On the Emmy-nominated composer's long-gestating album, Waiting Room, a rich and elegiac song cycle that draws upon film scores, neoclassical piano, and minimalist composers of the late twentieth century, McKenzie has found that honesty.

The video for ""Falling"", which combines "Falling Pt. I" and "Falling Pt. II" into a single piece. It captures the weight of the personal ethos that acted as the backdrop for the album, with Stubbert’s textured approach and toy box take on the neo-classical style on rich display. Check it out on here.

The album’s cover depicts an unusual image of McKenzie himself, rendered in an oil painting by his friend Zachary Johnson. The painting is based upon a photograph McKenzie’s wife and frequent collaborator snapped of him sitting in the waiting room of their marriage counselor. McKenzie saw the image and immediately saw an honest reflection of himself.

“And now the album is called Waiting Room,” McKenzie says. “We were two artists living together, coming out of religion, trying to make art but survive in an economy that doesn’t really support that. It’s pretty complicated. That waiting room was, I discovered, a self-imposed waiting room for me, waiting to emerge.”

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released August 18, 2023

Waiting Room by McKenzie Stubbert

Written, performed, produced, and mixed by McKenzie Stubbert

Piano, organ, programming by McKenzie Stubbert

“Ventomine”
Violin - Tim Fain

“Err”
Clarinet and Bass Clarinet - Josh Plotner

“Respir”
Violin - Kaileen King
Viola - Miribai Peart
Cello - Anna Fritz

Mastered by Peter Nothnagle

Paintings by Zachary Johnson (thezacharyjohnson.com)
Artist photo by Robbie Augspurger (robbieaugspurger.com)
Design by Sebastian Boecking with McKenzie Stubbert and Russ Curry

Special thanks to Vandoren Wheeler, Nate Grubbs, Debra Perko-Kornberg, Lily Skove, TJ Hellmuth, Imraan Ismail, Chris Milk, Jonathon Mooney, Josh Onstott, and Tiffany Kimmel

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