Nonesuch Records releases Confessions, a collaboration between the acclaimed American composer Nico Muhly and the Faroese singer/songwriter Teitur. The two musicians began work on the project when Muhly was composer-in-residence at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The songs’ lyrics were inspired by or culled from video and commentary the pair found on YouTube, and Confessions was recorded with Holland Baroque. Hailing from the Faroe Islands, between Norway and Iceland, Teitur Lassen has long been a successful pop artist in Europe, touring internationally, and collaborating with such artists as Seal and Corinne Bailey Rae. “We came up with this premise of boring videos, home videos,” he explains. “It was a time when everyone was posting these meaningless videos. It was just fascinating when we started watching them … The more you watched them the more you started to wonder, ‘What is behind this? Why are people doing this?’ They are really saying, ‘This is really beautiful, this is really sick, this is me,’ people confessing things. And that gave us the title for the record.” “Teitur took a lot of these things,” continues Muhly, “and looked at the comments and imagined the world that these people inhabited… These are not confessions in a dirty way but more like if you went over to a friend’s house 10 minutes before they expected you and you got a glimpse into something private...”