Today, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid shares “West Coast Sky Forever,” the latest preview from her “stunning” (WNYC) new album Big Majestic (out August 30 via New Amsterdam / Eclipse Projects). The new album assembles work from Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK, a public art project that The Washington Post praised as “an intoxicating musical adventure” that reimagines urban parks as interactive soundscapes that move through ambient, jazz, post-rock, and minimalism. Listen to “West Coast Sky Forever” HERE and preorder Big Majestic HERE.

Performing Reid’s “West Coast Sky Forever” is Kronos Quartet, the iconic and acclaimed ensemble who’ve collaborated with an incredible range of luminaries from Frank Zappa and Nine Inch Nails to Allen Ginsburg and Björk. Says Reid: “Like many of my contemporaries, I was inspired to begin writing instrumental music by the highly influential recordings of the Kronos Quartet. Working with Kronos on ‘West Coast Sky Forever’ was a dream. Their joy, passion and curiosity exudes through their playing. ‘West Coast Sky Forever’ was written to evoke the view from the top of the dusty mountain peaks in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park. Kronos Quartet’s sound perfectly embodies the canyons, the vistas, and the vertigo of being at a great height.”

Watch a visualizer for “West Coast Sky Forever” ft. Kronos Quartet here.

Influenced by the likes of Brian Eno, Nala Sinephro, Kamasi Washington, and Air, Big Majestic — which features additional contributions from Shabaka Hutchings, James McVinnie, Lisel, and Nadia Sirota — is vivid and evocative. Even divorced from the SOUNDWALK installations, these works capture the essence of the urban oases that inspired them — iconic spaces including New York’s Central Park, Los Angeles’s Griffith Park, London’s Regent’s Park & Primrose Hill, and Tokyo’s Ueno Park.

Reid recently released “Spiritual Sun,” a track featuring Shabaka Hutchings, “arguably the brightest star of London’s surging jazz scene” (Pitchfork). The New York Times describes it as “contemplative, restive and resonant; the shakuhachi reveals every breath as the electronics open deep spaces.”