Showing posts with label Laurie Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laurie Anderson. Show all posts

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.

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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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Sunday, January 21, 2018

David Byrne, Fleet Foxes, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Louis Andriessen News (NONESUCH RECORDS)




David Byrne Announces American Utopia World Tour
David Byrne has announced an extensive tour of songs from his new album, American Utopia, due March 9, plus classics from his solo career and Talking Heads. Byrne calls it "the most ambitious show I've done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense." 




Fleet Foxes Announce Additional Crack-Up Tour Dates
Fleet Foxes have announced additional dates to their 2018 Crack-Up tour, including festival sets and headline shows across the US West and South and a return to Europe in the summer.




Watch: Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet Share New Landfall Video
Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet have shared a new video featuring two tracks from their forthcoming album, Landfall. The songs,"The Water Rises" and "Our Street Is a Black River," are available to download now with pre-orders of the album.




Louis Andriessen's Theatre of the World Up for BBC Music Magazine Award
Louis Andriessen's Theatre of the World has been nominated for a BBC Music Magazine Award in the Opera category. A jury of expert critics selected this year's nominees, and the public vote is now open. 


FROM THE NONESUCH STORE

PRE-ORDER

American Utopia

For Gyumri

Pulse/Quartet

Landfall

OUT NOW

Phantom Thread

Thanks for Listening

The Way Is Read

Crack-Up

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