2013 GRAMMY Award winner, Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Eighth Blackbird --National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, 2013...Stephen Hartke's miraculous Meanwhile, the CD's title-track, is an absolute prize consisting of five jaunty, Asian-infused movements, clanging and tootling with pleasure…Missy Mazzoli's Still Life With Avalanche and two movements from Roshanne Etezady's Damaged Goods…encounter more sober topics and produce more mysterious moods and occasional violence.As the well-written notes reveal, there is an engaging story behind the way each piece came into being, along with such useful bits of trivia... --Gramophone Magazine, Laurence Vittes, January 2013The Best Classical Recordings of 2012: The adventurous ensemble Eighth Blackbird has entranced listeners in recent years with its theatrical interpretations of new music. Its performances on disc are equally electric, with dynamic interpretations of works including Philippe Hurel's kaleidoscopic '...à mesure,' Stephen Hartke's quirky 'Meanwhile: Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays' and Philip Glass's 'Music in Similar Motion' --The New York Times