Beyoncé Freedom

Unique, strong, and sexy—that’s how Beyoncé wants you to feel while listening to RENAISSANCE. Crafted during the grips of the pandemic, her seventh solo album is a celebration of freedom and a complete immersion into house and dance that serves as the perfect sound bed for themes of liberation, release, self-assuredness, and unfiltered confidence across its 16 tracks. RENAISSANCE is playful and energetic in a way that captures that Friday-night, just-got-paid, anything-can-happen feeling, underscored by reiterated appeals to unyoke yourself from the weight of others’ expectations and revel in the totality of who you are.

Homecoming: The Live Album (stylized as HΘMΣCΘMING: THE LIVE ALBUM) is the fifth live album by American singer Beyoncé, which was released on April 17, 2019. Recorded on April 14 and 21, 2018, at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California, just over one year prior to the album's premiere, the set features the entirety of Beyoncé's performance at the music festival which has since been deemed as "historic" by a number of music critics and media outlets. Two studio tracks – a cover of Maze's song "Before I Let Go" (which was previously covered by Destiny's Child in the late nineties but never officially released) and "I Been On" – follow the live recording, bringing the album's length to just short of two hours. The album's release coincided with the release of Homecoming, a documentary about the Coachella set that premiered on the streaming platform Netflix on April 17, 2019.

Dan Tepfer — whom New York magazine dubbed “one of the moment’s most adventurous and relevant musicians” — has criss-crossed the globe over the past several years. The broad success of the pianist’s 2011 album Goldberg Variations / Variations — an improvisational exploration of J.S. Bach’s masterpiece — led to packed concerts from London’s Wigmore Hall, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival and SF Jazz in San Francisco to events in Berlin, Prague, Tokyo, Vancouver and Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge, with The New York Times declaring the latter performance “riveting and inspiring.” Tepfer followed that with Small Constructions, a studio-savvy 2013 album with reed player Ben Wendel, as well as his ongoing collaboration with sax icon Lee Konitz.