The Declaration of Musical Independence

The Declaration of Musical Independence
Studio album by Andrew Cyrille
Released	2016
Recorded	July 2014
Venue	Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn, New York
Genre	Jazz
Label	ECM Records ECM 2430
Producer	Sun Chung
Andrew Cyrille chronology
Route de Frères (2011) The Declaration of Musical Independence (2016) Proximity (2016)

The Declaration of Musical Independence is an album by drummer Andrew Cyrille. It was recorded in July 2014 at Brooklyn Recording in Brooklyn, New York, and was released by ECM Records in 2016. On the album, Cyrille is joined by guitarist Bill Frisell, Richard Teitelbaum on synthesizer and piano, and Ben Street on bass.

Cyrille recalled that the recording sessions, which took place near where he was born in 1939, "were a whole lot of fun." He elaborated: "I wanted this album to be a true quartet project, where each of us had a piece of the record, in every sense. I wanted everyone to contribute music, everyone to give of themselves."^[1] In his liner notes, Ben Young suggested that "it might well be the farthest we've seen Andrew come from that warm centricity of pulsed music toward a polar outpost where it's as though atmospheric factors are models, rather than the pulsing spirit of humankind. The rate of motion recalls that of air and sea, very little about the crackling fire or the pace of moving on land. Cycles of gesture on the record are all elongated beyond heart rate, slower than breathing."^[2]