CONCURRENCE

FOR YOUR GRAMMY CONSIDERATION

Concurrence

Best New Age/Ambient or Chant Album

EMER

  • "Each piece serves as an intimate self-examination, reflecting shared human experiences of challenges and triumphs."

    Olivia, Cinematic Giants

  • "Concurrence isn’t a collection of songs; it’s a single, cohesive emotional journey, inviting listeners to follow EMER down the winding corridors of self-exploration."

    Austin Sher, We Write About Music

  • "This is music for those who live between worlds — for the dreamers, the seekers, the ones still learning to reconcile their shadow with their light."

    Austin Sher, We Write About Music

  • "Through Concurrence, EMER invites listeners on a journey of self-exploration, challenging them to embrace the complexities within."

    SONO Music

  • "EMER confronts the contradictions of the self in her new album Concurrence, weaving a tapestry of introspective soundscapes that delve deep into the human psyche."

    SONO Music

Performed by: EMER, The Emersion Ensemble

  • Written by: Emer Kinsella

  • Lyricist: Emer Kinsella (Back on this Planet, Contingency)

Producer: Emer Kinsella

Co-Producer: Brandon Seliga

Instrumentalists: 

  • EMER :Solo violin,  

  • Mehmet Aydin: Viola, viola improvisations, 

  • Mark Bassett : Cello, cello improvisations,

  • Hakeem Holloway: Double Bass

  • EMER : Vocals (Back on this Planet, Contingency)

(Back On This Planet and Contingency)

  • Denise Santos - Synths and additional arrangements

(International Waters)

  • Field Recordings by: Emer Kinsella

Recording, Mixing, and Atmos Mixing Engineer: Brandon Seliga

Mastering Engineer: Marcello Dubaz

Album Artwork by: Katherine Elmore,    Photographer: Mark Bassett

Recorded at: Camerata Records- Jeff Rona’s Studio

Released on: Camerata Records

What is Concurrence?

Concurrence is an 8-track album that maps the emotional arc of displacement, discovery, and arrival. 

Built on haunting strings, resonant electronics, and environmental textures, it invites the listener into a state of suspended becoming — somewhere between the internal and external world as the multiple facets of our identity concurrently unfold. 

The album opens in turbulence — a restless energy, internal dissonance, and the friction of being between places. From there, it moves through learning, discomfort, and the quiet motivation to keep going. Eventually, it carries us out onto open waters — both literally and emotionally — where the unknown becomes a space of possibility.

The album evolved through layered strings, synths, and textures rooted in classical tradition, expanded by improvisations with The Emersion Ensemble. In its final stages, I captured field recordings — rain in a Copenhagen greenhouse, wind on a Venetian pier, rivers in Paris, and distant sounds in a Viennese corridor — creating a sonic journal that pushed the music beyond genre into something fully immersive and quietly resilient.