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Bryce Dessner
Music For Wood And Strings [ Brassland / CD - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Music for Wood and Strings is the official follow-up to Bryce Dessner's 2013 solo debut Ahyem. But don't call this a solo record. Rather it is the meeting of three great musical entities that sound even better together. |
Sufjan Stevens
The Age of Adz (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty / 2 LP - released 11/Sep/2010 ] The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens' first full-length collection of original songs since 2005's civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its... |
Sufjan Stevens
All Delighted People (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty / 2 LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] All Delighted People is built around two different versions of Sufjan's long-form epic ballad "All Delighted People," a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon's "Sounds of Silence." Sounds delightful, yes! The song was... |
Sufjan Stevens
All Delighted People [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] All Delighted People is built around two different versions of Sufjan's long-form epic ballad "All Delighted People," a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon's "Sounds of Silence." Sounds delightful, yes! The song was... |
Sufjan Stevens
The Avalanche [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 10/Jul/2006 ] The little secret behind the Illinois record is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in-as did the... |
Sufjan Stevens
Michigan [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] Sufjan Stevens, Asthmatic Kitty, and Soundsfamilyre announce Sufjan's third full-length album, a collection of songs for his birth-state, Michigan, "The Great Lake State." Composed as a geographical tone poem, Michigan follows a metaphysical... |
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister
Planetarium [ 4AD / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Planetarium is an album co-composed by four musicians: Bryce Dessner (of the National), James McAlister, Nico Muhly, and Sufjan Stevens. Flanked by a string quartet and a consort of seven trombones, this unique collaborative ensemble has assembled... |
PHILIP GLASS / NICO MUHLY
In the summer house Angela Chun (violin), Jennifer Chun (violin), Nico Muhly (keyboards) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] A minimalist palette for maximum effect. This recital of music especially written or arranged for duo violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun highlights the personal and professional connections between Philip Glass - represented here as a miniaturist -... |
Bryce Dessner
Music For Wood And Strings LP [ Brassland / LP - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Music for Wood and Strings is the official follow-up to Bryce Dessner's 2013 solo debut Ahyem. But don't call this a solo record. Rather it is the meeting of three great musical entities that sound even better together. ONE: Bryce Dessner wrote... |
DESSNER / GREENWOOD
St Carolyn By the Sea / Suite From "There Will Be Blood" Bryce Dessner, Jonny Greenwood (electric guitars) / Copenhagen Philharmonic, Andre de Ridder [ Deutche Grammophon / CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] Bryce Dessner is a Brooklyn based composer, guitarist, and curator primarily known as a member of The National. The English musician and composer Jonny Greenwood, best known as a lead guitarist and keyboardist of Radiohead, also wrote numerous... |
