Dynamic Maximum Tension

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Composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue and his Secret Society ensemble make their Nonesuch Records debut with Dynamic Maximum Tension. The album pays homage to some of Argue’s k ey influences with original songs dedicated to R. Buckminster Fuller, Alan Turing, and Mae West. Fellow Nonesuch artist Cécile McLorin Salvant, with whom Argue collaborated on her long-form musical fable Ogresse, joins the ensemble for ‘Mae West: Advice’. Dynamic Maximum Tension’s 11 tracks, on two CDs, also include a response to Duke Ellington’s ‘Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue’, titled ‘Tensile Curves’, among other original songs. The album track ‘Dymaxion’ – a portmanteau of “dynamic maximum tension” – takes its name from the term coined by architect and inventor Fuller to describe his concept of using technology and resources to maximum advantage. Show more