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We look back at all the great, diverse music made by Nonesuch artists in 2015. Many of them have made music critics' year-end best lists, and we hope yours too. To see—and hear—the full year in review, click here.
Music: Debussy's Passepied from Punch Brothers' The Phosphorescent Blues
Watch This VideoLake Street Dive gives a quick peek inside the studio as the band recorded its Nonesuch Records debut album, Side Pony. The video, featuring music from the album's title track, was made by Matthew Beighley using Greg Liszt's footage from the album recording sessions at the Sound Emporium in Nashville with producer Dave Cobb.
Watch This VideoThe official video for the title track to Rokia Traoré's 2016 album, Né So. Directed by Romain Carciofo.
Watch This VideoShye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express perform "Hu" from the album Junun in this outtake from Paul Thomas Anderson's film documenting the recording.
Watch This VideoRhiannon Giddens performs Edith Piaf's beloved song "La Vie en Rose." She writes: "This is for Paris, and Beirut, and Kenya, and Charleston, and so many others; for countless innocent people devastated by terrorism—which is just a word for organized hatred and inhumanity. We have to keep seeing the world in shades of rose—we have to keep hoping for peace and working for change and believing that with our art, our love, our knowledge, and most of all, our empathy and understanding for our fellow human beings, we can make a difference."
Watch This VideoSt Germain's official video for "Sittin' Here," off his 2015 self-titled album. The video was directed by Cédric Mérand.
Watch This VideoPunch Brothers' five-song EP The Wireless, out November 20, 2015, features tracks recorded during sessions for the band's 2015 album The Phosphorescent Blues, including "Sleek White Baby," with words by Gabriel Kahane. Here's a behind-the-scenes video from that song's recording, with a cameo from the band's friend actor/musician Ed Helms.
Watch This VideoJunun—an album from composer/musician Shye Ben Tzur, guitarist Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express, a group of Indian qawwali musicians—was recorded in a makeshift studio inside the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India, with Radiohead's producer Nigel Godrich. The album is out November 13, 2015. Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson documented the recording sessions; this excerpt from his film, also titled Junun, features the album track "Roked."
Watch This Video"We all had such a great time filming this video," says Rhiannon Giddens of this video, directed by Peter Zavadil, for "Black Is the Color," off her 2015 debut solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn. "We were so honored to set our story—an old love story rediscovered—on the campus of Fisk University, a Nashville HBCU that dates back to 1866. The Fisk Jubilee Singers were among the first African-American performance groups to tour America and Europe, and they single-handedly kept their school from closing its doors with the money they raised with their singing."
Watch This VideoLaurie Anderson's first feature film in 30 years, Heart of a Dog is a personal essay on joy and heartbreak and remembering and forgetting, at the heart of which is a lament for her late beloved dog Lolabelle. It's "one of the most moving and provocative films you’ll see this year," says New York. The Nonesuch album is the full audio recording of the film, including all music and spoken text.
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