Seven Lions has released his first ever fully acoustic album ‘Opus’. The album is a collaboration with female string quartet ATLYS, who performed with him at The Gorge Amphitheatre at his annual festival Chronicles and the historic Red Rocks Amphitheatre to a sold out singing crowd of 10,000 fans. It includes reimaginings of eight of his most prolific tracks in his decade-long career, including “First Time”, “Rush Over Me” and “Worlds Apart”, and was arranged by two composers completely from scratch.
“When Seven Lions came to us just a mere 5 months ago to invite us to be a part of this acoustic instrumental project, we were completely humbled and starstruck. As ATLYS, we love experimenting with different genres and going where no string quartet has gone before. The EDM world was a musical soundscape that we had yet to explore, and we couldn’t wait to discover how to play dubstep and other EDM techniques on our classical instruments. We’ve performed over 1000 concerts around the world, but performing with Seven Lions at Red Rocks and Chronicles III at the Gorge, with thousands of fans singing along, will definitely remain a highlight for us for the rest of our lives. Working with the Ophelia team and Jeff has amazing. These songs are so well loved, they bring comfort and light to Jeff’s fans worldwide, and we’re so honored to have been the ensemble that brings them into the string realm, thanks to the help of our favorite world-class arrangers, Andrew Vogt and Ari Fisher.” – ATLYS