Music Is Music

American composer Gabriel Kahane originally wrote The Fiction Issue for a 2012 Carnegie Hall commission. He reached out to his pals in the string quartet, Brooklyn Rider, and My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden to collaborate. All parties got back together to record The Fiction Issue in 2015, and it's the title track on the Kahane/Brooklyn Rider co-release. Worden and Kahane trade off singing duties on the six-parts that make up The Fiction Issue. What we know for sure is that coffee and donuts play a big role. The rest of the plot is a little ambiguous, but Kahane likes it that way. On this episode of Music is Music: find out why we should try rating music on the Goose Bump Scale. Oh, and you can also listen to the first two parts of The Fiction Issue.