180gLP AUDIOPHILE PRESSING INCLUDES ART POSTER + DL. SARAH NEUFELD is a violinist and composer based in Montréal, Canada. Best known as a member of ARCADE FIRE, she is also a founding member of the acclaimed contemporary instrumental ensemble BELL ORCHESTRE and has performed and recorded with many other groups, including THE LUYAS, ESMERINE and LITTLE SCREAM. Neufeld began developing pieces for solo violin in a more formal and focused sense in 2011, though she has made improvisation and solo composition part of her process and practice since first picking up the instrument at a young age, counting Bartok, Reich, Bittova and Arthur Russell among her formative influences. "Hero Brother" was recorded in Berlin by pianist and producer Nils Frahm, who captures Neufeld's performances in a number of locations with site-specific acoustics, including an abandoned geodesic dome, an underground parking garage, and the legendary Studio P4 orchestral recording hall at the broadcast complex of the former GDR. Frahm also plays on two of the album's tracks. The record as a whole unfolds as a transporting, coherent and engagingly idiosyncratic soundtrack of solo violin music, teeming with diverse timbres, techniques, ambiences and evocations.