Paul Thomas Anderson's film Junun gets LA premiere … The Arcs play Paris … Ry Cooder plays Carnegie Hall with Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White … Rhiannon Giddens tours US Northeast … Tigran Hamasyan performs in France … James Farm tours Europe, UK … Brad Mehldau Trio plays Pacific Northwest … Youssou N’Dour concludes North American tour … Chris Thile plays California ... and more ...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film Junun, which documents the recording sessions of the titular album, receives its Los Angeles premiere at The Theatre at Ace Hotel DTLA on Sunday. Anderson filmed Israeli composer/musician Shye Ben Tzur, guitarist Jonny Greenwood, and a group of Indian musicians known as the Rajasthan Express as they recorded the album in a makeshift studio inside the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India, earlier this year.
The Guardian says the film was “shot with a mixture of amber-clear sensitivity and rough spontaneity to match the music in question. And it’s certainly that music … that aims to dazzle most here; ragged and raucous, heavy on intuitively played horns and from-the-gut vocal effects, it sounds like nothing else … [Y]ou’ll be hungry for the forthcoming album.”
The album, out Friday, is streaming in full till then as an NPR First Listen, which you can hear here. To pre-order the album and get the song “Roked” now, head to iTunes or the Nonesuch Store.
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The Arcs continue their tour of Europe with a stop at Le Trianon in Paris tonight, playing songs from their Nonesuch debut, Yours, Dreamily, released earlier this year.
The Evening Standard gives their show in London earlier this week four stars, citing the “harmony-drenched ‘Chains of Love,’ the ruminative ‘Pistol Made of Bones’ and the startling wall of sound that ‘Outta My Mind’ built,” and noting of the audience that “the response was rapturous.”
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Ry Cooder, Sharon White, and Ricky Skaggs have brought their Cooder-White-Skaggs tour to the US East Coast, performing in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City on Saturday, with Rosanne Cash acting as host as part of her Perspectives series at the Hall, and at The Egg in Albany on Sunday. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel calls the show “captivating,”, while Reverb calls it “a beautiful history lesson, straight out of the Grand Ole Opry.”
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Rhiannon Giddens continues her tour of the US Northeast with shows at the Towne Crier Café in Beacon, New York, tonight, the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, on Saturday and The Flying Monkey in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on Sunday.
Giddens releases a five-song vinyl EP, Factory Girl, on Nonesuch Records on November 27, to coincide with the Black Friday Record Store Day event. The EP is culled from the same T Bone Burnett–produced sessions that yielded her critically acclaimed solo debut Tomorrow Is My Turn.
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The Tigran Hamasyan Trio, with Sam Minaie on bass and Arthur Hnatek on drums, continues its tour of Europe, with a stop at L'Onde in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, tonight. Hamasyan released his Nonesuch debut, Mockroot, featuring the Trio, earlier this year.
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James Farm, the acoustic jazz quartet featuring saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Eric Harland, is currently touring Europe and the UK, playing a sold-out show at Cadogan Hall, as part of the London Jazz Festival tonight, the Saffron Hall in Essex tomorrow night and the Jazz Jantar Festival in Gdansk, Poland, on Sunday.
James Farm released its self-titled debut on Nonesuch in 2011 and its sophomore album, City Folk, last year.
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The Brad Mehldau Trio—with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—concludes a 10-day tour of North America this weekend, with shows at Town Hall in Seattle tonight and Aladdin Theater in Portland tomorrow.
Next week, the trio kicks off a two-week tour of Europe.
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Youssou N'Dour brings his two-week tour of North America to a close, with shows at The Royal Conservatory’s Koerner Hall in Toronto tonight, the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday, and the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday.
The Seattle Times, in a preview of his show there last weekend, said N’Dour “has one of the most enthralling voices in all of popular music—a high warble that soars to climax after climax, then falls with a sigh like a sonic meteor shower.”
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Chris Thile continues his month-long solo tour of the United States in California, with shows at the SFJAZZ Center’s Miner Auditorium in San Francisco tonight and the Green Music Center’s Weill Hall at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park tomorrow.
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