RZA announces orchestral ballet score album with Colorado Symphony Orchestra

nme.com:

Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA has announced his latest album ‘A Ballet Through Mud’ – an orchestral soundtrack for the ballet of the same name – for release on August 30 via Platoon.Last Friday (July 19), record label Platoon shared information about the release with a statement from RZA.

Per Rolling Stone, the rapper rediscovered the project during the pandemic while revisiting lyrical songbooks from his teenage years.These were then transformed into the finalized ballet soundtrack, which scores a coming-of-age story about love and growth. ‘A Ballet Through Mud’ was performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in its 2023 production – the ensemble will perform RZA’s score on the forthcoming album.“I have been composing my whole life, although I didn’t know initially that was what I was doing.

The inspiration for ‘A Ballet Through Mud’ comes from my earliest creative output as a teenager, but its themes are universal – love, exploration, and adventure,” RZA said in the statement.“I hope people use it to score their own lives, to transform a drive to the grocery store or sharing a meal with loved ones into something magical, to be inspired and let their imaginations take them into a different chamber, if only for a moment.”In 2023, the same year as ‘A Ballet Through Mud’, RZA enlisted the same orchestral ensemble for a series of ‘36 Chambers’ symphony performances.Last month, it was revealed that Wu-Tang Clan’s infamous ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ has been turned into an NFT.