Bruce Hornsby and chamber ensemble yMusic have teamed as BrhyM and will release their debut album, Deep Sea Vents, which will be out March 1 via Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers. The project dates all the way back to 2016 when they teamed for the Eau Claires festival, and they’ve collaborated a number of times since, with yMusic contributing to Hornsby’s 2019 album, Absolute Zero, and a tour together in early 2020, just before Covid locked the world down. It was on that tour that the seeds for Deep Sea Vents were planted.
The first single from the album is the lithe, funky “Deep Blue.” Says Hornsby, who makes his electric sitar debut on this song, “In eighth grade we had a poetry section in English class, and Stephen Crane (“The Red Badge Of Courage”) was on the list. For some reason some of my friends and I thought two of his poems were a scream so we never forgot them, and I couldn’t get them out of my mind after creating this track so just started singing them- voilà. The rest fairly much wrote itself, and Rob and CJ took over from there. yMusic may be the funkiest, groovingest chamber group in all the land!”
Listen to “Deep Blue” below.
Hornsby and yMusic will take BrhyM on the road starting March 7 in Urbana, IL, with the tour wrapping up April 23 in Denver. There aren’t currently much in the way of East Coast shows, but all dates are listed below.
Deep Sea Vents:
1. Wild Whaling Life 4:21
2. (My) Theory Of Everything 3:26
3. Platypus Wow 3:49
4. Phase Change 4:22
5. Foreign Sounds 4:30
6. The Wake Of St Brendan 3:40
7. Deep Blue 3:22
8. The Baited Line 2:35
9. Barber Booty 3:05
10. Deep Sea Vents 3:34
BrhyM – 2023 Tour Dates:
March 7 – Urbana, IL – Foellinger Great Hall
March 9 – Carmel, IN – Center for the Performing Arts
March 10 – Evanston, IL – Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
March 12 – Des Moines, IA – Hoyt Sherman Place
March 14 – Kansas City, MO – Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
March 15 – St. Charles, MO – J. Scheidegger Center for Saint Charles University
March 20 – Wilmington, NC – Wilson Center
March 21 – Newport News, VA – Ferguson Center for the Arts
April 4 – Carmel, CA – Sunset Center Theater
April 5 – San Francisco, CA – Herbst Theatre
April 7 – Santa Rosa, CA – Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
April 9 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Cal Poly Performing Arts Center
April 10 – Thousand Oaks, CA – The Bank of America Performing Arts Center
April 21 – Seattle, WA – Benaroya Hall
April 23 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre