Murmurations CD

Mur·mur·a·tion (noun): Imagine a huge, synchronized flock of birds swirling together in ever-changing shapes across the sky. Each bird in a murmuration moves based on the six birds around it, creating overlapping, interconnected nodes of expanding community.

Carrie Newcomer is excited to share her twenty-first album, Murmurations, in February 2027—her first release since 2023's A Great Wild Mercy. This new collection of songs explores how we find meaning, wonder, and even joy in these uncertain, beautiful, broken, and bewildering times. Murmurations embraces the ever-changing, often overlapping experiences of loss, grief, and uncertainty while remaining deeply rooted in a love for this world and the wonder found in small moments and ordinary days. Filled with a rich spirit of time and place and Carrie's signature poetic lyrics, these songs are an invitation to resilience, a story of forgiveness and letting go, of getting lost and finding our way again. They encourage us to reach for the lines of connection that join us to one another and to the living world, affirming what rises up in the human spirit, sometimes against all odds —and sings.

The recording features long time pianist Gary Walters, bassist Paul Kowert (Punch Brothers, Hawktail), Jordan Tice (Hawktail), cellist Ben Sollee, percussionist Jim Brock, Vocalist Moira Smiley (Solas), and fiddle player Ella Jordan. Co-produced by David Weber and Carrie herself at Airtime Studios, the album consists of 10 brand new tracks to be released by Thirty Tigers.