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Two years after releasing Weight of the World, the sophomore recording which earned attention from NPR: All Songs Considered, a #3 slot on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts, and took them on tour all over the US, UK, and Australia, 10 String Symphony felt the desire to expand their acoustic, stripped down sound. On July 13th, the band will release Generation Frustration, produced by Kris Drever of the Scottish band LAU. The new album digs even deeper into the potential for experimentation with stringed instruments while highlighting new depths in the pair’s original songwriting. Unafraid of pushing boundaries, the resulting songs are as challenging as they are beautiful. Today, American Songwriter Magazine exclusively premiered the first single, “One Way Telephone,” an “…affecting ballad,” noting that the “…two Nashville musicians have built complex worlds of sound from just a handful of instruments– two fiddles… with the occasional five-string banjo.”
Named for their unique instrumentation of two five string fiddles alternated with a five-string banjo, 10 String Symphony is the collaboration between GRAMMY nominated fiddle player Christian Sedelmyer (The Jerry Douglas Band), and acclaimed songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman. Since their inception in 2012, the duo has gained the attention of NPR’s Jewly Hight, who listed them among “The Newest and Most Promising Voices in Americana” for their unique and compelling vocal and string arrangements, which are at once traditionally informed yet completely avant-garde.