Photo credits: Roeg Cohen
Design: Abby Chen
“Active for over a decade in New York City and Boston, Brooklyn duo Quarterly have become known for their performances of classical and folk-influenced pieces for guitar and cello. DiPietro’s guitar usually provides a harmonic and rhythmic backbone, and Drymala’s cello serves as the melodic voice. On their adventurous third album Adonis, however, the two often take more equal roles—“dancing together,” as they put it—to create engaging and unusual moods.
These pieces conjure disparate scenes, set on and by the sea (“Fowler’s theme”), in a mythological past (“Italian Folk Magic”), or in the intimacy of the home (“Adonis”). Adonis mixes the harmonic and melodic strength of their previous work with a newfound interest in texture and found sounds. At once immediate and challenging, it is an emotionally engaging tour de force that summarizes Drymala and DiPietro’s singular voices as players and composers.
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Quarterly make instrumental music influenced by American folk and classical traditions, with a nod to post-rock minimalism. Imbued with a vivid depth of field and quiet intensity, Christopher DiPietro and Kristen Drymala create lyrical vignettes built on intricate guitar-work and soaring cello lines.
Natives of Maryland, they are currently active in NYC.
Adonis was released September 13, 2024 on Ruination Record Co.
Albums
Pomegranate
March 20, 2020 - limited edition cassette and digital platforms
Kristen Drymala: Cello
Christopher DiPietro: guitar, hammered lap steel
All songs by Drymala/DiPietro
Pomegranate was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves.
Whatever’s Clever WC011
Quarterly
Released January 15, 2016
Kristen Drymala: Cello
Christopher DiPietro: acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel
Recorded and mixed by Elio DeLuca at The Soul Shop, Medford, MA.
Fall 2014-Winter 2015. Produced by Elio DeLuca, Kristen Drymala, and Christopher DiPietro. Mastered by TW Walsh. Additional percussion by Elio DeLuca, Neal Johnson, and Christopher DiPietro. Bowed cymbals and guitar by Kristen Drymala. All songs written by DiPietro/Drymala.
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Yellow Roses EP
Released June 1, 2013
Kristen Drymala: Cello
Christopher DiPietro: acoustic and tenor guitars, lap steel
Recorded live to two-track at The Soul Shop in Medford, MA on 1/19/2013. Engineered by Elio DeLuca. Mastered by Jesse Brayman at Sound Mirror, Jamaica Plain, MA.
All songs written by Christopher DiPietro, with the exception of Bill,
written by Kristen Drymala.
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