11.01.2024
RENMENTALITY – THE ALBUM
 

Renaissance Men, New England's premiere male vocal chamber ensemble, returns with our newest album, RenMentality, which features a diverse array of music from composers with lived experience of mental illness throughout history: fresh interpretations of traditional choral works by Schumann, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky, breathtaking renditions of rarely heard works by Charles Ives and Brian Wilson, and tape-cassette recorded covers of songs featured on Nirvana's iconic “MTV: Unplugged."

The album's centerpiece is the world-premiere recording of Jay Mobley's When I Look Back: Theme and Variations, a muti-movement, cross-genre work for eight individual male voices, using texts derived from live interviews in coordination with National Alliance on Mental Illness Massachusetts. RenMentality de-stigmatizes and humanizes the realities of mental health challenges and offers comfort to those whom relate, as well as entertains with ethereal, expressive vocal art.

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RenMentality was created by an all-star team of Grammy and Latin-Grammy Award winning producers and engineers; produced by Tyler Graham Chester (Madison Cunningham, Sara Watkins), engineered by Alex Venguer (Barbie: The Movie, Rufus Wainwright), and mastered by Kim Rosen (Allison Russell, The Milk Carton Kids). Co-production and musical supervision by Jay Mobley and RenMen Artistic Director Eric Christopher Perry. RenMentality was recorded March 31-April 4 2022 at Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and Ghost Hit Recording, West Springfield, Massachusetts.

RenMentality has been performed live in concert series, college workshops, and in-patient mental health facilities across New England. Now booking live performances in 2025; to inquire, info@williamreinert.com.

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RENMENTALITY ALBUM INFORMATION HERE