Showing posts with label David Byrne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Byrne. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Brad Mehldau Trio Pre-Order | David Byrne, k.d. lang, Sam Amidon, Rhiannon Giddens, Tigran Hamasyan News



Seymour Reads the Constitution!
Release date: May 18

On Seymour Reads the Constitution!, Brad Mehldau Trio performs three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs (Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson), jazz tunes (Elmo Hope, Sam Rivers), and one work from the American songbook (Frederick Loewe's "Almost Like Being in Love"). Pre-order to download the opening track, "Spiral."





Congratulations to David Byrne -- his album American Utopia debuted at No. 1 on the US Top Album Chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200, both career highs! More career chart highs: No. 1 on Canada's Album Chart, Top 20 in the UK & Ireland, and Top 40 in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Netherlands.




Congratulations to Brad Mehldau -- his new solo album, After Bach, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart, his highest career position on the chart, and No. 3 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart! Another career chart high: it debuted at No. 2 on the UK Jazz chart. 


 David Byrne Shares His Desert Island Discs with BBC Radio 4

 David Byrne has shared his Desert Island Discs with BBC Radio 4. "I picked things that are little stepping stones in my life in music, things that I heard as a child, things that influenced my musical decisions, my musical awareness," says Byrne. "These are things that are taking me back to my childhood and then almost up to present day."

 Hear his Desert Island Discs ...

k.d. lang Talks Ingénue with New York Times

 k.d. lang spoke with the New York Times about Ingénue, the acclaimed 1992 album the paper says "made Ms. lang a superstar." The two-disc Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition is out now on Nonesuch.
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 Sam Amidon Announces UK Tour

 Sam Amidon announced a UK The Following Mountain tour for October, with shows in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Newcastle, in addition to previously announced summer festival sets. 
Get tickets ...
Tigran Hamasyan's For Gyumri on BBC Radio 2's Jamie Cullum

 Tigran Hamasyan's new EP, For Gyumri, was featured on BBC Radio 2's Jamie Cullum show. "Hamasyan is such a talent, and his new album is as good as anything he has ever done," says Cullum. "A beautiful piece of music. Incredible. Another amazing release on Nonesuch Records." 
Listen to the episode ...


Rhiannon Giddens Selects Cambridge Folk Festival Artists

 Rhiannon Giddens, the Guest Curator of and a performer at the 2018 Cambridge Folk Festival, has selected the performers she has invited to Cherry Hinton Hall in August: Peggy Seeger, Kaia Kater, Birds of Chicago, Amythyst Kiah, and Yola Carter.
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Seymour Reads the Constitution

Violin Concerto

Free Yourself Up

Still Dreaming


American Utopia

After Bach


The Following Mountain


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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Joshua Redman Pre-Order | David Byrne, Brad Mehldau, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet News



Still Dreaming
Release date: May 25

Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and trumpeter Ron Miles for Still Dreaming, an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's band Old and New Dreams. That band had an all-star lineup of Ornette Coleman collaborators: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. Still Dreaming features six new compositions by the new band plus one tune by Haden, one by Coleman. "Consistently riveting," says the Washington Post.

Pre-order to download the track "Unanimity" now.






David Byrne was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss his new album, American Utopia, and give an immersive performance of "Everybody's Coming To My House," with a special assist from Colbert.



David Byrne Releases "Everybody's Coming To My House" Video Performed by Detroit Students

 David Byrne has shared a video for "Everybody's Coming To My House" featuring a performance by Detroit School of Arts Vocal Jazz Ensemble students.

 Watch the video ...


Brad Mehldau's new album, After Bach, was featured on BBC Radio 2's Jamie Cullum show. "Absolutely beautiful," says Cullum. "It's one of those records you listen to from beginning to end and it leaves something behind in your heart afterwards." 




Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet's first album together, Landfall, results "from years of practicing, performing, refining and tweaking the collaborations," says NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. "You can hear how the time and care have paid off."




Still Dreaming

Violin Concerto

Free Yourself Up



American Utopia

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Monday, March 5, 2018

Lake Street Dive, John Adams Pre-Orders | David Byrne First Listen | Robert Plant, Jonny Greenwood, Laurie Anderson News & More (NONESUCH RECORDS)


Free Yourself Up
Release date: May 4

Lake Street Dive's Free Yourself Up is, in many ways, the band's most intimate and collaborative record. The band worked as a tightly knit unit to craft the ten songs on Free Yourself Up and self-produced the album in Nashville with engineer Dan Knobler. "Free Yourself Up is about empowering yourself, emboldening yourself," says the band, "no matter what's going wrong." Pre-order to get an exclusive, autographed print and download "Good Kisser" now.



Violin Concerto
Release date: April 27

This new recording of John Adams's Grawemeyer Award-winning Violin Concerto was made with his frequent collaborators violinist Leila Josefowicz, conductor David Robertson, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis. The piece features Adams's usual "intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness," says the Boston Globe, and "mingles virtuoso show with soul." Pre-order to download the third movement, "Toccare," now.





David Byrne's new album, American Utopia, out next Friday, is streaming in full till then as an NPR First Listen! "In a world filled with millions of songs about personal problems and love gone right or wrong," says NPR Music's Bob Boilen, "I'm thrilled to have a record that opens my eyes and widens my perceptions and helps me stop and make some sense of this inexplicable, mind-bending world of ours."




Robert Plant and his band were on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night. They performed "New World" from his new album, Carry Fire, and Plant spoke with Corden about a karaoke incident.





Jonny Greenwood, who is up for Best Original Score at the Academy Awards this Sunday, spoke with NPR's Morning Edition about his Oscar-nominated score to Paul Thomas Anderson's film Phantom Thread, and his appreciation for the humble recorder.





Laurie Anderson was on CBC's Q. She spoke with host Tom Power about her experience of Hurricane Sandy and about finding hope in loss. They also discuss the work it inspired: Landfall, her new album with Kronos Quartet. 





Rhiannon Giddens, who takes part in the Tibet House Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, performed Lydia Mendoza's 1934 song "Mal Hombre" in a flower-filled 1954 Silver Streak trailer in East Nashville for The Bluegrass Situation's Sitch Sessions.





Congrats to Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau, and Tigran Hamasyan, who are up for ECHO Jazz Awards: Thile and Mehldau for their duo album Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau, and Hamasyan for his album An Ancient Observer.





Jeremy Denk's concert with Britten Sinfonia at Milton Court in London earlier this week -- part of his ongoing Barbican residency -- featured music by Gershwin and Stravinsky and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3's In Concert.




Free Yourself Up

American Utopia

After Bach

Violin Concerto


Landfall

Phantom Thread

For Gyumri

Pulse/Quartet

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