Hem

Nettwerk Management client Hem have just released a beauitful original holiday song called "Identical Snowflakes" (listen below). The New York-based band has been busy in the studio putting the finishing touches their upcoming release, Departure and Farewell, due out in 2012. "Identical Snowflakes" will be featured on the full-length as well. 

Identical Snowflakes by ColeenN 

Today marks the release of Brooklyn based group Hem's broadway musical soundtrack Twelfth NIgh. 

The album sees the complete works scored for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production and features almost half an albums's worth of new, never before heard songs.

The soundtrack featuring vocals from Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, Raúl Esparza, David Pittu and Jon Patrick Walker, features one duet Messe wrote specifically for Hathaway and McDonald, using lyrics from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” It was never intended for the actual staging but “those two voices together was too tempting to pass up," Messe says. "So even though its a moment that never happened on stage it really happens on our album."

Hem are curently working on their new full lenght album, due spring / summer of 2010

As Hem’s Dan Messe recently told Billboard, the Brooklyn-based band’s soundtrack for the The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night features almost half an album’s worth of new, never before heard songs. The group ended up writing and composing much more than was included in the final show, as director Daniel Sullivan had to cut certain things because, as Messe puts it, “anything that got in the way of the drama was getting cut."

The soundtrack, out October 27 on Waveland/Nettwerk Records and featuring vocals from Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, Raúl Esparza, David Pittu and Jon Patrick Walker, features one duet Messe wrote specifically for Hathaway and McDonald, using lyrics from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” It was never intended for the actual staging but “those two voices together was too tempting to pass up," Messe says. "So even though its a moment that never happened on stage it really happens on our album."