Journal
- Tuesday,February 26,2019
New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records release Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet, on April 19, 2019. Orange, which features six of Shaw’s pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively feature her works and is the first release in a new partnership between the two record labels. The string quartet form "has existed for hundreds of years, but there's something, for me, beautiful and ritualistic about coming back to that form," says Shaw. "This album is a celebration of the simple, immediate, unadorned beauty of a natural, everyday, familiar thing." Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an instant download of the track "Plan & Elevation: IV. The Orangery" (a video for which may be seen here) and an exclusive print of a painting created and signed by Shaw and Attacca Quartet.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsTuesday,February 26,2019Mountain Man has released its take on two John Denver tunes: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Around and Around." "We love John Denver so much we gave Alex his haircut, and recorded a few of his legendary tunes too," says the trio. "Have a listen! They are so sooooothing, we promise." Mountain Man Sings John Denver is available to download now and can be heard here; a 7" vinyl is due June 7 and may be pre-ordered now. The group tours the US starting in March.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFriday,February 22,2019Yola's debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, produced by Dan Auerbach, is out now on Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound label. The album "showcases Yola's otherworldly vocals and compelling songwriting," says NPR. "It's the work of an artist sure to stun audiences for years to come." "[S]he arrives an instant, incandescent vocal star," exclaims the Sunday Times. "Rich with vibrato and echoing Dusty in Memphis, her singing elevates a sequence of immaculately upholstered songs to greatness ... Walk Through Fire introduces an artist who is unmistakably the real deal." "Can't. Stop. Listening," says the Sunday Telegraph. "A star in the making, for sure."
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsReviewsWednesday,February 13,2019David Byrne's Nonesuch Records debut album, Grown Backwards, first released on March 16, 2004, will make its vinyl debut almost 15 years later, on March 15, 2019. The double-vinyl edition is the original album plus six additional tracks, including a duet with Caetano Veloso on their song "Dreamworld." It's "one of Byrne's most rewarding experiments yet," said the Guardian. "It fits alongside the best of his career and adds another solid release to a solo catalog which will hopefully become more cherished in time," said Pitchfork in 2004. "In 20 years, as we straighten our faces with botulism, braces, and stem cells, the album will stand up." Pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFriday,February 8,2019Jeremy Denk's new album, c.1300–c.2000, is out now. The double album presents a centuries-long story of constantly emerging possibilities and styles of musical expression, an evolution drawn in a single arc by the music of twenty-four different composers, from Guillaume de Machaut to György Ligeti. "A piano recital covering 700 years of music: by most accepted definitions, that ought to be not just an oxymoron but an impossibility," says the Telegraph. "But the usual barriers fall whenever Jeremy Denk is at the keyboard ... Quite exhilarating." "Full of contrast and surprise," says the Observer, "this is a richly personal gallery of sound."
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsThursday,January 31,2019Joshua Redman Quartet’s new album, Come What May, is due March 29 on Nonesuch Records. This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians—the recently Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—and features seven Redman tunes. The Quartet tours internationally throughout this year. Pre-order in the Nonesuch Store to download the album track "How We Do" now and get an exclusive, limited-edition print autographed by the group while supplies last.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFriday,January 18,2019Jonny Greenwood's acclaimed score to Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award–winning film There Will Be Blood, first released on Nonesuch in 2007, is now available on vinyl worldwide for the first time. Indiewire named it one of the 25 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century. The LP was mastered for vinyl at Abbey Road Studios and pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands with two additional tracks, and housed in an old-style gatefold jacket. The album is also available as an HD digital download for the first time.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFriday,January 18,2019British rising country soul star Yola's debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, will be released February 22, 2019, on Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound label, distributed by Nonesuch Records. "The moment I met Yola I was impressed," says Auerbach. "Her spirit fills the room, just like her voice … she has the ability to sing in a full roar or barely a whisper and that is a true gift." Videos for two songs from the album, "Faraway Look" and "Ride Out in the Country," can be seen here.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsTuesday,January 8,2019A new track from pianist Jeremy Denk's forthcoming album, c. 1300–c. 2000, has been released: Brahms's Intermezzo in B Minor from Klavierstücke, Op. 119, No. 1. The piece can be heard here and is available to download now with album pre-orders, along with the previously released track, Binchois's Triste Plaisir.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFriday,December 14,2018k.d. lang's previously unreleased song "Sleeping Alone" is now available as a digital single on Nonesuch Records, to mark the premiere of k.d. lang – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special on PBS tonight. She wrote the song with Joe Pisapia and performed it live in concert at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, Texas, for the Landmarks Live special. Watch the song performance here.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsTelevisionVideoFriday,December 14,2018Two acclaimed Nonesuch albums are newly available as 96kHz/24bit HD digital downloads in the Nonesuch Store: Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau's 2006 eponymous duo album ("sublime," BBC) and Metheny's 2011 solo album What's It All About ("a realm of beauty," Boston Herald).
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsWednesday,December 12,2018Jonny Greenwood's acclaimed score to Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award–winning film There Will Be Blood, first released on Nonesuch Records in 2007, will be released on vinyl worldwide for the first time on January 18. Indiewire has named it one of the 25 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century. The LP—mastered for vinyl at Abbey Road Studios and pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands with two additional tracks, and housed in an old-style gatefold jacket—is available to pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store.
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