GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS announced the new recording by musical theater virtuoso Joe Iconis, a sprawling new 44-track album, simply titled Album, due out on Friday, June 17. The album features over 70 members of Iconis' vast family of collaborators including Aaron Tveit, Andrew Rannells, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Krysta Rodriguez, Kerry Butler, Danny Burstein, Annie Golden, George Salazar, Will Roland, Andrew Barth Feldman and many more.
The album was produced by Iconis, Ian Kagey, and Charlie Rosen, executive produced by Randi Zuckerberg, features music direction by Danielle Gimbal, and choir arrangements by Joel Waggoner.
There will be a Los Angeles album release concert at The Bourbon Room on Wednesday, June 22. Tickets are HERE.
There will also be a Feinstein's/54 Below concert in celebration of the release. It will feature special guests that are soon to be announced. Tickets can be found here.
Iconis has also shared the project's first single, "Album," a time-hopping piano ballad about art and legacy. Listen to the single "Album" HERE.
"'Album' is the last song I wrote for the project so it feels appropriate that it serves as both the opener for the album as well as its first single," explains Iconis. "As often happens with my work, I set out to write something short and simple and it ended up turning into a 7-minute, century-spanning epic. Whoops. The song is just piano and voice until the very end. While the sparse arrangement is an outlier on a record that features horns and strings and choirs, the message of art bringing people together is very much a theme of Album, and one I'm so grateful that we get to share at this moment in time. Family is forever and I hope you'll be a part of ours."