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The video for "And So," from Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet's 2022 album, Evergreen. “And So” is part of Shaw’s Is a Rose trilogy.
Watch This VideoAn album trailer for the The Blue Hour—a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider—from the recording sessions with the chamber orchestra A Far Cry and vocal soloist Nova, narrated by the composers.
Watch This VideoMolly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform "San Francisco Blues," from Tuttle’s 2022 Nonesuch Records debut, Crooked Tree. The video, directed by David Robertson, was filmed during Tuttle’s sold-out release show at Nashville’s legendary Station Inn.
Watch This VideoThe video for "I'm A Man," from Grammy Award–winning and multi-Platinum selling singer-songwriter Michelle Branch’s 2022 album, The Trouble With Fever. Michelle says: "I wrote the chorus of 'I’m A Man' long before the verses. It started as an empathetic view towards men struggling to find a new way to navigate in a post- “Me Too” world of toxic masculinity. Having a son made me think of how men are taught to be from a young age and the pressures to provide and succeed and this sort of burden to be seen as macho. But you can’t tell that story with just one side of the coin because as I was trying to paint a sympathetic view it just seemed completely minuscule and ridiculous in comparison to the struggles that women have been dealing with, really, since Eve bit the apple. Why are nearly all mass shooters male? Why do I need my husband’s written permission in 2022 to get my tubes tied? Why do American women have fewer reproductive rights than our grandmothers? Why don’t we get paid as much as men? Why do I have to teach my daughters not to walk alone at night? And so on and so on. Yet we carry on with grit and grace like we always have because we have no other choice."
Watch This VideoA visualizer for "Dream Another," from Makaya McCraven's 2022 album, In These Times. The track, which the Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and produce wrote and recorded in his home studio in Chicago, features Brandee Younger on harp, Junius Paul on bass, Matt Gold on guitar/sitar, and De’Sean Jones on flute. The visualizer, directed by Nik Arthur, features hand-drawn, digital, and photographic animations composed and laser-etched into stone in the style of a “zoopraxiscope,” a nineteenth-century animation device, predating the motion picture, that allowed images to move for the first time.
Watch This VideoThe members of the legendary original 1990s Joshua Redman Quartet—Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Brian Blade (drums)—perform "Disco Ears" from their album LongGone. Filmed by Matthew Beighley and Jacqueline Santillan live at the Falcon in Marlboro, New York, on September 7, 2019.
Watch This VideoThe Black Keys' "Wild Child" from its 2022 album, Dropout Boogie. Music video directed by the band’s longtime collaborator Bryan Schlam. As they've done their entire career, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material for Dropout Boogie in the studio, and the album captures a number of first takes that hark back to the stripped-down blues rock of their early days making music together in Akron, Ohio, basements.
Watch This VideoThe forty-disc John Adams Collected Works, a box set featuring recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with the label, is out now on Nonesuch Records.The release includes two extensive booklets containing new essays and notes by Timo Andres (which you can read here), Nico Muhly (read here), Jake Wilder-Smith (read here), Julia Bullock (read here), and Robert Hurwitz (read here). Unboxing video by Robert Edridge-Waks. Music: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 1: Landing of the Sprit of '76.
Watch This VideoHurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares a video for the title track from their 2022 Nonesuch debut, LIFE ON EARTH. The video is directed and edited by Segarra, who also publishes the accompanying poem, "i always thought time was a circle turns out i was wrong."
Watch This VideoCécile McLorin Salvant performs Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, and Herbert Stothart's "Optimistic Voices" and Gregory Porter's "No Love Dying," from her Nonesuch Records debut, Ghost Song. Filmed by Matthew Edginton at Power Station at BerkleeNYC.
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